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Rating:  - The extras in the Remix version are worth paying more
High School Musical is one of the Disney productions you don't have high expectations for. How good can something made for cable be? But it surprises in a big way.
This is a movie about teens trying to find their own identities while feeling the pressure to conform to their own social groups. There's clean romance, humor, and the songs are surprisingly good. It does what every good musical should do: make you tap your toes and want to join in the singing and dancing.
And this is where the extras come in. The Remix version comes with a sing-along option that lets you sing along to all the songs, with the words lighting up as they're supposed to be sung, karaoke style. The second DVD includes a dance lesson for two of the dances in the movie. These dances are pretty hard, but it can be fun to try.
I really didn't think I would like this movie, thought it would be for tweens only. But I was delighted to discover I was wrong. This is a delightful movie to enjoy, sing along with, and dance to with your tween, and the lesson of being true to yourself is such a good one for kids who often feel pressured to fit in with their friends.
Rating:  - Amazing movie
Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter truly shined in this film, I highly doubt Oscars are too far out of the questi-...
Oh wait. Nevermind. I though this was the Sweeney Todd page. Nevermind this film sucks the big one! Need I say more! It sucks so much I can't even give it a full review.
Rating: - Love this Musical!!!
This is the best kid/family fun video to come out for years. We absolutely love it!!!!
Rating: - HSM is so effeminate that it will continue modern-day America's unlucky trend of turning young men into NANCY BOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HSM has been notoriously billed as the "Grease" of this generation to draw a connection between it and this movie's musical roots. That's an analogy that highlights the superficial, "fun" aspect of this movie, but HSM has other praiseworthy attributes. HSM is the type of entertainment that should be mass-marketed to teenagers today because that demographic is cataclysmically in peril of entering into high-risk behavior such as premature sex, gang-involvement, drug use, apathy, violence, idleness, etc.. HSM is a very laudable antidote to this predilection of risky, teen misbehavior because of the values it espouses: healthy activities, pride in oneself, determination, achievement, school involvement, rejecting peer pressure et al.
Because of the way the values espoused are treated, HSM is in danger of being dismissed as a breezy, thoughtless piece of banality and triteness where its values are so rigidly clean-cut they come off as being insincere. In fact, this only scratches the surface of HSM's enormous faults, and aside from the facade of clean-cut values, everything else is in freefall.
Despite Disney's focus on constructive values for teens, a deeper analysis unmasks really harmful influences throughout the movie, influences which are to blame for our society's decay in the form of over-sexualization, vanity, appearance-consciousness, obsession with wealth, and low self-esteem.
All the young starlet-actors, whether its Efron or Hudgens or Tisdale, don't look like the average, normal teenager. Maybe that's because they're many years older than most teenagers, but mostly because they're unnaturally appearance-oriented. Efron's character Troy is someone the vast majority of teens WON'T relate to because he looks like a little Calvin Klein model with his perfect hair and his chiseled face (Efron is currently hyped as a sex symbol by debauched magazine Rolling Stone). The girls (Stripperella Hudgens/Tisdale) are even more loathsome: their faces are repositories for an explosion of makeup and their clothing puts an emphasis on the superficiality of wealth and vanity.
The Sharpay character particularly is a destructive "role model" for young girls because her attire shows exorbitant amounts of skin (too short skirts) and misleads teens to think that one needs expensive clothing to fit in. Though the Sharpay character's supposed to be a lesson against this sort of misconduct by teens due to her being the villain, HSM fails to make this clear enough, and impressionable (read: stupid) teens and those younger will fail to get this connotation. Instead, many teens probably will come away with the misinformation that misbehaving like a selfish, vanity-obsessed Sharpay is praiseworthy--not just since our liberal-infected pop culture pushes those toxins--but because HSM glorifies the villain in Sharpay.
Aside from these unpardonable breaches, HSM also should concern parents for its deadly messages of emasculation and effemination when teenage boys are watching; the themes of feminine dancing and singing are enough to potentially neuter the masculinity of teen boys watching this foulness, which is what liberalism wants anyway. Boys should participate in sports and community service in order to both keep them busy and build character, yet this film indoctrinates teen boys to squander their time with limp-wristed singing and dancing. This shouldn't be totally startling since Disney is culpable for clandestinely indoctrinating young boys to turn effeminate via the overwhelming skew towards female activities in their products--just look at other popular shows on the Disney Channel: Hannah Montana, Raven, etc..
Since HSM has themes/values that are so much healthier and cleaner for teens who are in desperate need of guidance in their impressionable lives, it's with a somewhat heavy heart that I write this next paragraph. I have many friends who are young couples with young kids, so I intimately know what Disney should do to retain its patronage of their demographic, families with children. Many reading this review likely know by now the scandalously lewd expose that hit one of the debauched starlets in this film, Vanessa Hudgens due to her own misjudgments and lust for temptation!!!! Hudgens took stark-naked pictures of herself which where then plastered all over the internet.
Only if one's a moral relativist who excuses hurtful, moral misbehavior could one still support this product after one of its most prominent faces betrayed all the little kids to whom she's supposed to be a role model with her salacious exhibitionism!!!! Speaking on behalf of all my many friends who are couples with young kids, they'll NOT be buying ANY MORE Disney products until Disney redeems their company from the taint left by Hudgens. That is to fire her and show the families with young children that Disney really protects and promotes traditional, conservative family virtues, or else, it appears like Disney only cares about making money. In fact, Disney has gone on record about Hudgens, that the reason they'll not discipline her is not to upset the attraction of youngsters to Hudgens and her popular character.
All the young couples with young kids whom I know are boycotting Disney until they sanitize this uncleanliness left by Hudgens' misconduct.
Rating: - High School Musical
High School Musical (Encore Edition)
I purchased this DVD for an 11 year old girl who watched it every time she could on TV. To save conflict with parents I thought the DVD would make it easy to watch it when the time was "right". She was very happy to receive it. Since it is a Disney movie it can be trusted.
I highly recommend this DVD.
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