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High School Musical 1: Extended Edition
The all-new, smash hit Disney Channel Original Movie everyone is
talking about is now available for the first time ever on DVD
with never-before-seen bonus features that will rock your house!
Troy (Zac Efron), the popular captain of the basketball team, and
Gabriella (Vanessa Anne Hudgens), the brainy and beautiful member
of the academic club, break all the rules of East High society
when they secretly audition for the leads in the school's
musical. As they reach for the stars and follow their dreams,
everyone learns about acceptance, teamwork, and being yourself.
And it's all set to fun tunes and very cool dance moves!
Featuring the hottest talent, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL celebrates the
power of music in this hip, entertaining, gotta-get-up-and-dance
movie. Own all the excitement and the exclusive extras available
only on this Encore Edition DVD.
Bonus Features include Original & Sing-Along Versions Of The
Movie
Learning The Moves Featurette Led By Director/Choreographer Kenny
Ortega
Never-Before-Seen Music Video I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You
We're All In This Together Music Video
Behind-The-Scenes Featurette
High School Musical 2: Extended Edition
It's time to sing and dance because there's so much more to
celebrate in HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2: EXTENDED EDITION. Experience
the movie in a whole new way with a never-before-seen music
sequence and rehearsal footage, plus sing lead vocals with High
School Karaoke. The East High Wildcats are gearing up for big fun
as they land the coolest summer jobs imaginable. Troy (Zac
Efron), Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens), Chad (Corbin Bleu), and
Taylor (Monique Coleman) have scored sweet gigs at the Lava
Springs Country Club owned by Sharpay and Ryan's family.
Sharpay's first rule of business: Get Troy. As Troy experiences a
life of privilege he's never known, will he give up the Wildcats
and Gabriella to rise to the top? Featuring an all-star cast,
exclusive bonus features, hot new songs and awesome dancing, HIGH
SCHOOL MUSICAL 2: EXTENDED EDITION is way 2 good 2 miss! Bonus
Features include: Bloopers
Rehearsal Cam Watch The Dance Rehearsal Footage Along With The
Movie
High School Karaoke Sing The Lead Vocals With Help From Optional
On-Screen Lyrics
Music Videos
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
It's time to celebrate as Disney's phenomenal HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL
hits new heights in HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR! Fresh
from the big screen, this motion picture extravaganza delivers
nonstop entertainment from start to finish! It's almost
graduation day for high school seniors Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay,
Chad, Ryan and Taylor -- and the thought of heading off in
separate directions after leaving East High has these Wildcats
thinking they need to do something they'll remember forever.
Together with the rest of the Wildcats, they stage a spring
musical reflecting their hopes and fears about the future and
their unforgettable experiences growing up together. But with
graduation approaching and college plans in question, what will
become of the dreams, romances and friendships of East High's
senior Wildcats? Find out what happens to all your favorite
characters in the big screen musical sensation, HIGH SCHOOL
MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR! It's a fabulous celebration the whole
family will love! Bonus Features include: Extended Version Bigger
Than Ever With Additional Scenes
Deleted Scenes With Introductions By Director Kenny Ortega
HSM 3 Bloopers Get Ready To LOL With The Cast!
Night Of Nights Prom Scene Tell-All With The Cast
It's All In The Dress The Ladies Of East High Dish On Prom
Dresses
Sing-Along Mode Get In Tune With The Wildcats!
Cast Goodbyes The Cast Of HSM 3 Bids An Emotional Farewell To
East High
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High School Musical Encore Edition:
The Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical is a
combination of backstage action and Grease without the
unwholesome habits. Scoring record ratings at the time of its
January 2006 broadcast, it's a smash hit with tween audiences
(ages 6 to 10), but appealing for all ages. At a New Year's Eve
party, Troy (Zac Efron of the WB's Summerland) has a chance
meeting with Gabriella (Vanessa Anne Hudgens) when they share a
karaoke song. Lo and behold, when school resumes, they discover
that Gabriella has just transferred to Troy's East High School, a
campus divided into tight cliques of jocks, cheerleaders,
brainiacs, and skater dudes. Eager to recapture the magic they'd
discovered during karaoke, Troy and Gabriella consider
auditioning for the school's upcoming musical, much to the dismay
of the school's frost queen/theater goddess, Sharpay (Ashley
Tisdale of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody). Problem is, Troy is
also the star of the basketball team and Gabrielle is being
recruited to compete in the Scholastic Decathlon. Will they give
up their cliques to start something new, or will they do as the
show's first big anthem urges and "Stick to the Status Quo"?
Well, this is a Disney movie, so maybe the sacrifices won't be
that hard, and even the hints of romance are mild. The
bestselling soundtrack
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in that Disney-pop kind of way, mixing in a dash of hip-hop
("Getcha Head in the Game," punctuated by squeaky basketball
shoes and other sound effects), salsa ("Bop to the Top"), and the
endearingly hammy ("What I've Been Looking For" performed by
Sharpay and her brother, Ryan, played by Lucas Grabeel). It's not
hard to imagine High School Musical becoming a semi-ste for
high school groups to perform themselves. DVD bonus features
include sing-along subtitles; a 9-minute featurette discussing
casting, sessions, and rehearsals; a multi-angle look
at a rehearsal of "Bop to the Top"; and music videos for "We're
All in This Together" and a song that didn't make it into the
final film, "I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You," performed by
Efron, Hudgens, Tisdale, and Gabreel. --David Horiuchi
High School Musical 2 Extended Edition:
What time is it? Time for High School Musical 2, the sequel to
the Disney Channel smash that aired on Aug. 17, 2007 and became
the most-watched basic-cable show ever. School is out, and Troy
(Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) are looking forward
to a summer to remember, but Troy also needs to make bank so he
can go to college. As it turns out, Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale), the
self-procled primo girl of East High, has her eye set on
primo-boy Troy, and gets him a job at the country club her
parents own. It looks great for Troy when Gabriella and the rest
of the Wildcats are hired also, but when he gets preferential
from the club manager (Mark Taylor) and others, it puts
all of his relationships in hot water.
Everyone's back from the original movie, including Zac's buddy
Chad (Corbin Bleu), Sharpay's brother Ryan (Lucas Grabeel), and
Gabriella's friend Taylor (Monique Coleman). And the songs on the
hit soundtrack often parallel the originals and are just as
catchy: the Troy-Gabriella duet ("You Are the Music in Me," which
is later Sharpay-ized into a rock version), the sports-flavored
hip-hop number ("I Don't Dance," but this time on the baseball
diamond instead of the basketball court), the Gabriella lament
("Gotta Go My Own Way"), the climactic stage duet ("Everyday"),
and the mass-ensemble closer ("All for One"). But the sequel
doesn't just stick to the status quo. Other songs include a
flashy opener ("What Time Is It"), Sharpay's poolside feature
("Fabulous"), a percussive ensemble number ("Work This Out"), and
Zac's solo ("Bet On It"), and the dances are even bigger this
time around, relentlessly high-energy and often spectacular. In
addition, the "let's put on a show" angle ! is only a subplot and
the romance is now front and center--which means High School
Musical has lost a bit of its innocence. But it's still wholesome
viewing for tweens of all ages. Sharp-eyed Disney Channel fans
will spot Miley "Hannah Montana" Cyrus as an extra. --David
Horiuchi
On the DVD
The extended-edition DVD adds one new scene, in which Sharpay
and Ryan perform the Hawaiian-themed "Humuhumunukunukuapua'a,"
which not only is fun but adds a bit of character development for
Ryan. This number (which was on the CD as a bonus track) is
incorporated into the movie and also accessible from the
bonus-features menu, along with a four-minute blooper reel and
music videos for "You Are the Music in Me" (one U.S. version and
a Mexican version with Paulina Holguin and Roger) and "Gotta Go
My Own Way (Canadian versions in French and English, both with
Nikki Yanofsky). A "dance rehearsal cam" shows the choreographers
and cast working on nine numbers (36 minutes total).
Director-choreographer Kenny Ortega coaches, offers pep talk, and
declares, "If it wasn't for Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon,
we wouldn't be here!" There are two sing-along options, one with
English subtitles and a "karaoke" version with English subtitles
but no vocals. --David Horiuchi
High School Musical 3:
High School Musical 3: Senior Year is the third film in Disney's
record-smashing series, and the first to debut in theaters rather
than on the Disney Channel, and while many of the elements are
the same, the film is at times bigger to accommodate the big
screen. All the usual characters are back, but not for long: it's
senior year, and the classmates are all facing the prospect of
leaving East High in separate directions. Troy (Zac Efron) is
ready to play hoops at the University of Albuquerque with best
friend Chad (Corbin Bleu), but doesn't want to be a thousand
miles away from Stanford-bound Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens).
Taylor (Monique Coleman) is headed to Yale, while Sharpay (Ashley
Tisdale), brother Ryan (Lucas Grabeel), and the school's
pianist-composer Kelsi (Olesya Rulin) are all in the running for
a single scholarship to Juilliard. The showcase for them will be
Ms. Darbus' new musical, Senior Year, which will recap the
academic careers of the students themselves. (So if the original
HSM was a retelling of Grease, HSM3 is more A Chorus Line.) There
are a few new characters: Sharpay's personal assistant Tiara Gold
(Jemma McKenzie-Brown), and Troy's hangers-on, Rocket Man (Matt
Prokop) and Donny Dion (Justin Martin), who may give the
franchise life beyond its original cast (if they make some
headway in the likability department). But it's all about the
songs and the dances. Ryan and Sharpay sizzle in a
classic-musical tribute "I Want It All"; Troy and Gabriella share
a rooftop waltz in "Can I Have This Dance"; and Troy and Chad
blow off steam in a salvage yard in "The Boys Are Back." "Now or
Never" is this film's "sports song," and Troy and Gabriella have
their big duet "Just Wanna Be With You" and their own showcases,
in "Scream" and "Walk Away," respectively. If the closing anthem,
"High School Musical," seems on the self-congratulatory side,
it's a rare misstep in a series that has made a generation of
tweens (especially girls) sing and dance and realize they can be
whatever they want to be. --David Horiuchi