So I was a 90s kid for those be wondering which I know was like nobody I grew up during the sort of like Disney
cartoon Renaissance, right
We had like Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Lion King, Hercules, like all these like animated musical movies
And then they all just kind of went away as we moved into 2000
I guess like musicals were just not cool anymore or whatever and then
2006 came around and Disney Channel decided to take a bit of a risk and bring back the old
Musical movie genre or like whatever it's called and gave us High School
Musical. Now that High School Musical has long faded from people's minds
I thought I would take a look back at this movie that grabs so many people for whatever reason. So let's check it out, the
movie starts on New Year's Eve with a fetus Zac Efron. I mean look at this dude my goodness. Hope you packed your diapers
So Troy's on vacation with his family but he and his dad are still playing the old basketball and his mom
has just about had it - "really fly all this way to play more basketball"
-"Yeah"
-"It's the last night of vacation the party remember?"
-"Right the party"
-"The party New Year's Eve" -"Troy, they have a kids party downstairs in the Freestyle Club" -"Kids party" -"Young adults now go" wait
So I'm confused here. Is it a kid's party or not a kid's party
All they want to know is are we gonna watch Space Jam in our pajamas or not?
so Troy ends up going to the kids party which has a
Karaoke stage as a main event for whatever reason he gets picked to go up there with some random girl
He's never met named Gabriella both of whom don't really want to be there
-"That anything can happen
When you take a chance"
"I never believed in
What I cou.."
I just I love his face right here when she starts to sing. He's just like
Aw crap now I gotta sing the whole rest of this dumb song. Thanks a lot. Afterwards
They decided to exchange numbers out on the balcony. -"I'll call you. I'll call you tomorrow"
-"Yeah" -"Here
Put your Number in"
-"You Too"
How does he just know how to take a picture with her phone I mean like nowadays sure everyone has smartphones
It's all the same I guess but like back in the flip phone Nokia era taking a photo was like a whole process
it's like in movies how characters go to hotels and they just
Instantly understand how to use the shower like you ever tried to use a shower in a hotel
It's like doing a Rubik's Cube blindfolded. Let's see here. Just put the little arrow barely touching the red and
Then we flash forward to the beginning of school after winter break Troy whose surprise surprise is the cool kid in school
You know, it's got to be the hair I guess right
I mean Zac Efron 2006 just a Bieber 2008 the secret to popularity has nothing to do with personality
Okay, just walk around with your hair looking like a bucket on your head. You're good to go
-"Ice princess has returned from the North Pole. You know what she probably spent the holidays what she always does shopping for mirrors"
*Sigh* -"You know"
2006 was a different time. We were all much tamer back then long before, you know
Social media came and just turned us all into heartless monsters
Then we get to meet the main antagonist of the movie Sharpay or as she apparently spells it (Skahajrpjsay) -"Oh
were you going to sign up too
My brother and I have stared all the supposed productions and we really welcome newcomers
There are a lot of supporting roles in the show." Man i'm having some real like high school PTSD flashbacks right now
Like I said my glee video I was a theater kid. Okay. I was in show choir musicals
Like let me tell you I was really cool. And there were so many Sharpays
I mean even now I still
Flinch when I see a blonde white girl who smiles too much. Now both Troy and Gabriella get detention because they have their cell phones out
in class and so naturally they serve detention by helping the drama teacher build her sets because you know
Of course, they do -"So many new faces in detention today
I hope you don't make a habit of it
but the drama club can always use an extra hand and while we are working let us probe the mounting evils of..."
Pre-marital Se.. anyway singing with Gabriella at the party where they didn't watch Space Jam in their pajamas
Okay, talk about a lame party. Am I right?
This makes troy decided that he would in fact like to try out for the musical since singing was just you know so much gosh
darn fun
But he doesn't want anyone to know so he goes to this like Indiana Jones Temple of Doom maze just to get to the auditorium
Like how big can this school really be? I mean, I just see the same twenty students everywhere we go
So eventually he makes it to the audition and hold on a second . It's that report of the week sitting right there
Is that review bruh?
Anyway, Troy and Gabriella are late, but they sing a song anyway, just for funsies and wouldn't you know?
they get a callback which
Sharpay is none too happy about now because of the callback every one of the whole school all twenty students find out that Troy auditioned
for the musical and this somehow leads to everyone deciding to just like let all the skeletons out of their closets like Troy is just
The Rosa Parks of his generation or something
*Music cuts out probably due to copy right*
You said bake my mind went to a very different place but but yes strudels are cool
Sure, and then of course a bunch of other kids start joining in and telling their own secrets, which will definitely end well for everyone
everyone
*Same thing with the music*
Self is like whatever but it ends with Gabrielle's nachos suddenly turning into chili fries which raises a whole lot of questions
But I think we'll just move on -
-"Do you see whats happening here man
Our team is coming apart because of your singing thing
Even the drama geeks and the brainiacs suddenly think that they can talk to us
The skater dudes are mingling" "Yo"
"Suddenly people think that they can do other stuff okay stuff that's not their stuff
They've got your things about show tunes when we've got a playoff game next week"
Like I get that this is the whole point of the movie, you know
Like Oh in high school everyone gets put into little boxes and you have to stay in your lane
But like you think they could be any more on the nose here
I mean like whoever wrote this movie it probably hasn't even been to high school since they faked the moon landing because like even way
back in 2006
Put me on life support
no one actually thought like this if a basketball player tried out for a musical no one would care now later Gabriella goes up to
The roof to find choice sitting there all by himself like a loser
-"I'm sure should she keep being the coach's son makes me practice a little harder. I guess I
Don't know what he's gonna say when he finds out about the singing." "You worried?"
"My parents friends are always saying
Your son's the basketball guy. You must be so
proud"
I love this like thousand-yard stare. Troy gets midway through his sentence. You must be so
proud
Wait a minute. Did your not just turn into chili fries? What are they feeding us at this school?
And then we get to know Gabriella's character a little better." I saw the way he treated Kelsi at the audition yesterday
Do your friends know that guy?"
"Today I'm the playmaker dude"
"Then they don't know enough about you, Troy
My other schools I was the freaky math girl. It's cool coming here and being
Anyone I want to be" but you know her whole like character backstory whatever like it doesn't even make sense
A pretty girl who's good at math and she was the freaky math girl
Okay, you know what kind of girls there are in high school? You got freaky horse girl, freaky anime girl. Freaky girl
Who tells you way too much about her personal life, you know what high schools don't have freaky math girl
I know this isn't supposed to be like a true one-to-one realistic high school or whatever
But like I was in high school, the pretty popular girls were also valedictorians
so like this backstory doesn't even make sense at some point later in time Gabriela meets up with Troy during practice Oh
"Don't tell me you're good at hoops, too"
"You know, I once scored 41 points on the league championship game". "No way." "Mm-hmm. Yeah and the same day
I invented the space shuttle and microwave popcorn"
Okay. Now I see why kids didn't like you at your old school turns out the math had nothing to do with it
Troy's dad
who's also the basketball coach just a small little detail there gets upset that Gabriella is taking Troy away from basketball and
Making him would you believe?
Sing and kicks her out
This leads to Troy and his dad having a bit of an argument about whether he should sing or not. Yes
This is actually the whole conflict of the movie. "You're something special"
"yeah, well a lot of things are special Dad"
"But you're playmaker
Not a singer, okay?" "Did you ever think maybe I could be both"
Well, I hadn't thought of that oh gosh down problem so movie's over so long story short Gabriella over
Hears Troy smack-talking her and the musical and then all that stuff with the world's greatest web cam. She's just someone I met
All right. The singing thing is nothing probably just a way to keep my nerves down. I don't know. It means nothing to me
You're my guys and this is our team
Gabriella is not important. I mean seriously though. How does this even work? Like, this is 2006 Internet even now in 2018
I can't Skype someone without feeling like I got drunk
Goggles on naturally this leads to Gabriella not wanting to talk to Troy and Troy left wondering what happened
So that night he goes over to her house to try and smooth things over and we see Gabriella just sitting there perfect posture hair
And makeup all done perfectly
Just reading a book like some little princess but I mean like, okay
We all know she would have some weird face mask on, hair just done in the messiest bun
You've ever seen fingers covered in cheeto dust. I mean, come on High School Musical. You ain't fooling nobody afraid
They might lose the Troy and Gabriella Sharpay has the audition date moved to coincide with the championship basketball game and whatever
It is Gabriella does now before the big basketball game Troy and his dad have one last heart-to-heart talk. "I
Know all about the pressure and probably too much of it has come from me
Because what I really want is to see my son
Having the time of his life playing the game we both love
You give me that and I will sleep with a smile on my face no matter how the score comes out"
So you want me to play so you can be happy this is kind of a weird pep talk not gonna lie
It just sounds like it's all about you dad in the end Troy and Gabriella both win
Their respective tournaments or like whatever and just barely make it to the audition. -"I don't know what's going here
but in any event
it's far too late and we have not got a pianist"
-"well that's show biz"
-"We'll sing without a piano." -" Oh no you won't."
"Pianist here miss Travis." I'm sorry. What "pianist here miss Travis?"*Sounds like penis* Okay. Well, we'll just we'll just leave that one right there
You know, it's it's just one of those words you don't want to say too fast
All right, and the movie ends pretty much how you think it will Troy and Gabriella get the main parts in the musical
Everyone is friends kumbaya and all that stuff
So like this is one of those movies that really owes success to like right place right time kind of thing
You know, I mean like watching it back now as someone who liked it well enough when it came out
Why did everyone latch on to this movie so much. I mean there's whole parts of it that don't even make sense
Like I said for the time it was like this revolutionary thing to have a movie about high school kids singing, you know
Like oh, let's challenge the status quo and all that but like it has not aged well, okay
I mean like the intro part to sharpey or brothers musical number
-"Mucho gusto." -" Ay que fabulosa"
Something tells me this just wouldn't fly today, you know, the world was a different place in 2006
But still you can't deny what High School Musical started bringing you back movie musicals and all that stuff, right?
So like I guess it's not all bad
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It's there for you. Now watching this movie was nostalgic for a lot of reasons
I mean number one, you know, like when this movie came out, you know, we all liked it
We all latched onto this idea. For some reason. I liked it well enough when it came out, you know kids adults
Everyone was just obsessed with this high school music it was like frozen
But like before frozen, you know, I mean and watching it back now
It's like why did we like this movie so much because it's like it's just so bizarre in so many ways as someone who graduated
From high school in 2006. It was just so
Nostalgic to kind of look at this time back in 2006 like social media wasn't really a thing
YouTube had just started like the internet as we know it now was just starting to kind of creep up, you know
But it's like it's so weird to go back to this time that I remember so well
But High School Musical did kind of help usher in this kind of like bringing back musical movies and stuff
You know now that I think about it actually like even way back in like 2001
I think Buffy did a musical episode just one
I guess at the time that must have been just bizarre. Like wow this musical episode in 2001. That's crazy
But like High School Musical and glee came in they brought it back and then they just ran it into the ground
I mean, so hard that even Riverdale has a musical episode, you know, it's kind of with Bitcoin, you know
Like when your grandma starts giving you Bitcoin advice like, you know, it's time to get out
It's the same with like musical, you know episodes every when Riverdale does it, you know, it's it's over anyway guys
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