I watched High School Musical with my cousins at a sleepover. A couple of them were really raving about it just because they had downloaded it before the premiere on Disney Channel. And based on the commercials about it, I really did want to watch it.
The movie is mainly about having to struggle with high school streotypes and knowing how to deal with them. Troy and Gabriella just want to be known as themselves and not as the jock and the nerd respectively. And in achieving this, they audition for the school musical.
The movie, for me was the typical Disney Channel movie, only with singing and dancing. Though there were a lot of lines, scenes, songs, parts and dialogue in the movie that were very much unrealistic (in spite of the fact they they burst out into song), the overall mood and message of the story are good.
What I didnt like about it was the dubbing. Itsapeyk. Plus some of the singing parts looked more like an MTV than a scene in a movie musical. The acting as usual in Disney films (and some shows) are either too much or too bland. In other words, many of them can't act. The script was ok in some parts but in others, you can just say, "You dont have normal conversations like that in real life!"
But what I would like to give credit to was the correography. Especially in the songs "Put/Keep(?) your Head in the Game" wherein the basketball players dance as they do bball moves. And in "Stick to the Status Quo," we find the entire cafeteria singing and dancing on the chairs and the tables switching from one to the other.
All in all, it was entertaining, yet somewhat, perhaps, annoying. But entertaining nontheless. I dont not recommend watching it.
