Saturday, October 25, 2008
High School Musical 3; Senior Years
Went to watch the movie High School Musical 3; Senior Years after choir with Daphne and Edmund at plaza singapura. Having booked the tickets earlier on, didn't have much trouble with the transaction and everything. And so, here's a review of that show.
High School Musical 3: Senior Year gives you an honest jolt of feel-good fizz. It may be as friendly and square as one of those 1950s teen romps in which the actors wore letter sweaters, but that doesn't mean the movie is an uptight anachronism. It's shrewd enough to know that in an era ruled by drop-dead irony, gee-whiz sincerity can be its own rebellion — a wholesome rebuke to consumerist cool. The star jocks and theater bugs of East High School have already been through championship games and opening nights.
"Musical 3" is frustratingly shallow, but what it lacks in narrative ambition, it makes up for in dazzling choreography. They rise to the theatrical-release challenge by expanding the dance numbers while minimizing the drama. Instead, they rise to the theatrical-release challenge by expanding the dance numbers while minimizing the drama.
Though briefly deafened by the shrieks of pre-teen girls at the preview screening, I recovered my wits in time to appreciate “HSM3” for what it is: a sweet, innocent look at an impossibly idealized high school world.
Kids may smooch and sing about love, but what they really want to do is rock the house and wring the last bits of happiness out of their final year in the most untroubled high school on Earth, where jocks and theater geeks and snotty girls and gay boys and weirdo named “Rocket Man” can all find themselves once they climb onto a stage. This kind of uplift slides down easily in so charming a setting.
The story of HSM 3 is told from a musical point of view in a lighthearted, joyful way, consciously steering clear of any serious issues or complicated characters. As high school seniors, the filmmakers give the adolescents all the pressures and anxieties that "average" high school seniors face about prom, final exams, graduation, and going away.
No doubt, the movie could use better songs, more energetic choreography, subtler mise-en-scene, less ostentatious color palette, but it delivers the basic goods in an appealingly joyous package (and it is a package), which is infectious. A movie not to be missed.
High School Musical 3; Senior Years
I emo-ed @ 2:30 AM