While my parents graciously watched our sleeping children the day after Thanksgiving, A and I finally got to see High School Musical 3: Senior Year. You might think it strange for a couple of upper twentysomethings to be so excited to see a film about high schoolers aimed at the tween crowd. That is no doubt true, but after you watch something (like HSM 1 & 2) so much that you have memorized all the words to all the songs, you become interested in the next chapter of the story. (And as our friend Kim now knows, having been the poor recipient of our verbal movie critique, we also spent the whole film watching for the backup dancers who were in the first two films--and we got mad when there was so much action, we couldn't find them!)Just think of this as our way of screening the film before we let Addie see it--and she will definitely not be seeing it when it comes out on DVD. Too serious, too much real sports action (those basketball players can be rough, I should know), too much talk of the future (which is too much for a little girl who doesn't understand the meaning of "tomorrow" or "yesterday").
Otherwise, the film didn't disappoint, except in its choice of lyrics for the final song (I was practically yelling "No!" over and over again in the theater; don't worry, we were almost the only ones in there) and the final shot of the film. Totally stupid. But other than those two oversights, HSM3 delivered--good songs that have stayed in our heads for days, nice dance moves, and enough cheesiness for us to debate for days.
Fantastic.
K
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