diablocody
Guest
Apr 26, 2024 7:00:51 GMT -4
|
Post by diablocody on Aug 14, 2007 21:44:20 GMT -4
Don't feel bad, atreides. The HSM phenomenon is not something cool young hipsters are into-- more like third graders. Seriously, my 8-year-old stepdaughter loves it. No need to feel old, just post-pubsecent.
As for Zac Efron, I don't find him remotely cute, but I'm not into the David Cassidy-esque twink type. If I had to pick a Disney Channel-style boy, I'd go with the kid who plays Chase on Zoey 101. And yes, he's 18. I checked.
|
|
Deleted
Posts: 0
Apr 26, 2024 7:00:51 GMT -4
|
Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2007 21:51:15 GMT -4
I'll explain (because I've seen it)
High School Musical is a Disney channel movie that was produced and aired last year. It steals heavily from Grease. It's about a girl (that Vanessa biznatch) who meets a teen boy while on Christmas vacation at some ski lodge. They get yanked up to some Christmas New Year's Eve karaoke tournament (yeah, I don't know. . . ) and they both come out of their shells and sing the hell out of some love duet. They're both smitten but shy and although they exchange numbers, Vanessa is gone before poor Zac knows what to do.
But lo and behold when school returns we discover that Vanessa is the new girl at school. She and Zac find each other. But unfortunately Vanessa is a brain and gets tapped to be in the Mind Decathalon or some such shit like that and Zach is a basketball star at his school. Jocks don't talk to nerds and nerds don't talk to jocks. But all Zac & Vanessa really want to do is join the high school musical. But their friends try to tell them that they shouldn't branch out and they should just stick with the status quo (there's even a song called "Stick with the status quo") but they audition for the musical and kick ass.
Unfortunately there's an evil brother sister duo that ALWAYS stars in the musicals so they try to destroy Vanessa & Zac's plans. But in the end their friends realize that it's wrong to not let people pursue their dreams so both get to audition for their callbacks and they find love and happiness by finding themselves and reaching true for their dreams and NOT putting on slutty pants and learning to smoke like in Grease.
The songs are very very peppy and poppish and the kids are all fashionably dressed with clean skin and shiney hair. Disney did a kick-arse job of marketing it by premiering videos of the movie before it premiered so by the time the movie aired, most kids already knew most of the songs so the soundtrack shot up the charts instantly. Then Disney didn't let the thing die by airing special versions of it with words at the bottom so you could sing along or they'd teach the choreography in the commercial breaks. So these bunch of nobodies became tween sensations overnight.
|
|
ijustworkhere
Blueblood
Posts: 1,260
Jun 16, 2006 11:56:38 GMT -4
|
Post by ijustworkhere on Aug 14, 2007 22:19:21 GMT -4
Sweet lord, I'm three years older than him and probably about five inches taller but I'd still throw him against the wall and start making his little plastic babies if I ever met him. Is that TMI? I should also mention that I nanny for two girls, aged three and seven, and so have been able to get away with watching HSM every single day and even, yes, learning the dances with them. If I were just a typical grad student I don't think I could do that and be able to live with myself. Whatever, there isn't much else out there that gives me the sheer, unadulterated joy I feel when Troy spins Gabriella in the climactic chorus of "Breaking Free"! If that's wrong then I don't want to be right.
That said, I have no trouble believing that Vanessa's an evil twat and Zac's one step behind her.
|
|
ang
Guest
Apr 26, 2024 7:00:51 GMT -4
|
Post by ang on Aug 14, 2007 22:40:58 GMT -4
I love your plot synopsis jensational!! Especially this: ...they find love and happiness by finding themselves and reaching true for their dreams and NOT putting on slutty pants and learning to smoke like in Grease. Its really enjoyable - as a Mum of a 10 yr old girl, its great to have a movie thats not incredibly lame, or overly adult in its themes. Its just a sweet, wholesome movie with really, really catchy songs.
|
|
|
Post by BoroKat on Aug 14, 2007 23:01:48 GMT -4
Man, that does sound like a ripoff of Grease. Its like rated PG Grease. Boo. The naughtiness is what I loved about Grease when we were teens in the mid 90s.
But its nice that the tweens have something to squee over that is not overly adult, as Ang said.
|
|
Eeyore
Landed Gentry
I love proper spelling.
Posts: 506
Mar 8, 2005 13:41:20 GMT -4
|
Post by Eeyore on Aug 14, 2007 23:06:09 GMT -4
I'm over twice his age and I think he's absolutely adorable. HSM is utterly cheesetastic, but I watch it every. time. it comes on. And YES! HSM2 is debuting in Canada on the 17th as well.
He was cuter than cute in Hairspray, but still not cuter than James Marsden. ;o)
|
|
|
Post by BoroKat on Aug 14, 2007 23:07:54 GMT -4
Now James Marsden is hot.
|
|
winot
Guest
Apr 26, 2024 7:00:51 GMT -4
|
Post by winot on Aug 15, 2007 0:13:39 GMT -4
Well I haven't seen it but God help me now I want to.
|
|
swanflake
Guest
Apr 26, 2024 7:00:51 GMT -4
|
Post by swanflake on Aug 15, 2007 3:21:14 GMT -4
Sweet lord, I'm three years older than him and probably about five inches taller but I'd still throw him against the wall and start making his little plastic babies if I ever met him. Is that TMI? HAHAHAHA!!! ijustworkhere, you need to start posting more often!
|
|
Deleted
Posts: 0
Apr 26, 2024 7:00:51 GMT -4
|
Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2007 5:06:06 GMT -4
He looks like the result of what you'd get if an anime female mated with a male elf (or Clay Aiken).
|
|