At best, you’ll be disappointed; at worst, you’ll want to blow up a high school.
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10/24/08
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)
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Reviews Counted:123
Fresh:82
Rotten:41
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: It won't win many converts, but High School Musical 3 is bright, energetic, and well-crafted.
Theatrical Release:22-10-2008
Synopsis: The first HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL movie to be released straight to the silver screen, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 finds the cast of the beloved earlier installments, all students at East High, dealing with... [More]
Starring: Zac Efron, Vanessa Anne Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel
Director: Kenny Ortega
Reviews for High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Top CriticIt has all the exquisite tension of dithering over whether to have the cake or the ice cream.
10/24/08
Top CriticAs far as slickly produced and joyfully energetic escapism goes, High School Musical 3 is top of the class.
10/24/08
Top CriticHigh School Musical 3: Senior Year makes cellophane taste like chicken jalfrezi.
10/24/08
Top CriticRefitted for the big screen, it becomes an eerily plastic business, like a blown-up doll's house.
10/24/08
Top CriticColourful, fizzy and destined to keep the karaoke busy for a few months, the ten musical e-numbers pop between the eyes like wads of overblown bubblegum. Would that they stick in the memory in the same way…
10/24/08
Then there’s the sheer volume, colour and stage-brat exuberance that breezes the wispy plot (will the last spring musical come together?) from one forgettable hi-energy dance number to the next.
10/24/08
Yes, it’s like being given a shot in the arm of pure Haribo, while downing Red Bull and being bombarded by images of kittens and rainbows but every once in while we need that.
10/24/08
If you have children, especially girls, they would have dragged you along to see this anyway. The good news is that it's entertaining whatever your age, and far from the commercialised mediocrity I had expected.
10/24/08
If you’re under 12, you won’t be disappointed. If you’re over 12, the fact this is as funny and bright as it is insipid won’t stop you from avoiding it like the plague.
10/24/08
Top CriticIn fact, whether you find it a piece of harmless, escapist fun with a gorgeous cast or two hours of cultural genocide filled with creepy robo-teens will depend on whether you’re under or over 14.
10/24/08
In an increasingly fragile world, High School Musical represents a constant slice of positive energy.
10/24/08
A bit of bloodshed would have enlivened proceedings enormously in the anodyne High School Musical 3.
10/24/08
Next to this, Dawson's Creek and Gossip Girl look like Ken Loach.
10/24/08
I cringed for nearly two hours.
10/24/08
Just smother yourself in an inch of sunscreen. Undead cynics will be bathed in such a UV dazzling positivity that they risk imploding in their seats.
10/23/08
It's well made and entirely watchable, but it won't really appeal to anyone outside its target audience.
10/23/08
Completely lacking a plot or actual characters, this colourful film is more like a musical revue about a sanitised, fantasy version of high school. It's lively and watchable, but painfully vacuous.
10/23/08
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04/23/09
...suffers from precisely the same sort of problems that plagued its two underwhelming predecessors...
02/20/09
Latest News for High School Musical 3: Senior Year
March 04, 2009:
Disney Sets Fourth High School Musical for 2010 
Disney's "High School Musical" will continue -- on television, and with "a new generation of East High School students," in 2010. More...
February 16, 2009:
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February 15, 2009:
A review-proof, kiddie franchise certain to thrive regardless of what any snooty critics have to say about this installment which seizes on any excuse to have its ensemble break out into a song and dance ala a big Bollywood finale.
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December 17, 2008:
Academy Names 49 Eligible Oscar Songs
The 49 songs in the running for Oscar nominations have been announced, including 11 tunes from the "High School Musical 3" soundtrack. More...
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