High School Musical 3: Senior Year Musical
For many teen movie-goers, the best film of the year has just hit the screens - High School Musical 3: Senior Year.
High School Musical was Disney Channel's most successful made- for-television movie, pulling in 7.7 million viewers during its premiere in 2006. It was followed by an equally popular sequel last year.
Now director and choreographer Kenny Ortege proudly brings the phenomenon to the big screen with a movie that is faithful to the earlier teenage feel-good romantic comedies. By focusing on themes that all teenagers understand - breaking out of stereotypes, escaping the need to fit in, experiencing a first summer job, learning how to trust loved ones - the High School Musical series deals with the emotional realities adolescents face.
In the latest instalment, the familiar high school gang of six returns to enjoy their senior year in East High. In the midst of basketball matches, a senior prom, finals, graduation and the inevitable good-byes, the teenagers grow up and have to do what grown-ups do - make decisions for themselves.
Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) is unsure as to whether he should accept a sports scholarship and pursue a career in basketball with his best friend, Chad (Corbin Bleu), or choose performing arts as his future career. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, a brainy science student, Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens), has been offered an early admission from Stanford University and has decided to distance herself from the relationship to avoid heartbreak.
