The Disney trilogy concludes with High School Musical 3: Senior Year, directed by the fabulous Kenny Ortega. There are songs galore and the typical high school angst of where to go to college and dealing with potential farewells of forever. This was the only one of the three movies to be a theatrical release, the first two having been Disney Channel specials. Nothing changed, though. The actors were the same and the story continued on without alteration.
Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens play
the lovebirds, Troy and Gabriella. They have pretty good singing voices and the look their parts.
I wasn’t as fond of the finale as I was the first two. It actually felt for a bit like it went from song to song, and I didn’t feel any cohesion. The last half-hour, though, was the best and had me right there with the high school graduates. I loved that they came up with a way to keep the young couple together, while allowing each ...