Read Common Sense Media's High School Musical review, age rating, and parents guide. Filled with important messages, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL is an upbeat made-for-TV movie about a pair of teens who, after discovering a mutual love of song, overcome pressure from friends to ditch their. It was not made to win any Oscars or make history, it was made to entertain and it just did that.

Here are a few facts you didn't know about the franchise. Most "HSM" fans probably know that Efron's singing voice wasn't heard too much in the first movie and the soundtrack. It has been speculated that his vocals.

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A basketball player and an academically gifted teenager fall for each after they sing a song together. What happens next over the next few films is all. At first glance, "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series" seems like a blatant cannibalization of a Disney property as required by a streaming service that depends on nostalgia. At second glance — well, that's entirely accurate. To its credit, though, the show is upfront about it, delivering its gentle. While [High School Musical] will inspire more than a few choice eye rolls from parents, its messages are far healthier for kids, particularly at the impressionable "tween" stage, than many of its competitors.

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Metacritic TV Reviews, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Auditioning is just the beginning of the real-life drama encountered by the students at East High School as the Your score has been saved for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. Would you like to write a review? The series is about high schoolers staging a production of "High School Musical," with the added meta layer that the characters attend the school where the movie "High School Musical" was filmed, and their drama teacher (Kate Reinders) claims to have been part of the cast.

They bond over a mutual love of musical theatre, and spend the rest of the movie trying to escape their high school moulds to follow their theatre dreams together. It has spawned two sequels, but I hadn't even seen the original until last night. HSM grapples with the eternal high school question: conform or be yourself? High School Musical is nominally about a romance between Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens), two teens who meet at a holiday ski lodge where they're unexpectedly thrust together to sing karaoke.