Shake 'em hips Effron, Shake 'em!!!!!!!!

High School Musical 3.

Cheesy. Not the best musical. Perhaps some of the most sorry teenage acting in awhile. Deeply watchable.

After completing the now epic trilogy that is High School Musical 1-3 I still cannot get what makes them so appealing under my thumb. Part of me wants to think they are just well made, realistic portrayals of teenage-ism today. Yet its not really that. Another part of me wants to think its because they feel like a throwback to movies like Greece etc. that I used to watch growing up. But its certainly more wholesome than that. Still it might be the up-and-coming young talents ability to sing and dance into my heart. But if I'm being objective it really could not be that either.

Still despite all of the weaknesses in the acting, singing and storytelling that is HSM3 I find myself tapping my foot and on the edge of my seat wondering how Gabriella is going to make it back in time for the senior musical! I honestly could not tell you even three things I think that make HSM series so enjoyable. All I know is that somehow it melts away part of my cynical twenty-something heart and I really have a great time watching them and getting the songs stuck in my head for weeks. And I'm still not sure whether that is a good or bad thing yet!!!!!

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