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I'M HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL

[Music]
what's up Greg I've wanted to make a
video about the High School Musical
movies ever since I started making
videos about dcoms almost 5 years ago
more so is just an excuse to go back and
watch them cuz when I was a kid I really
like these movies and if you're a
millennial chances are you did too and
you were also too scared to admit that
to any of your friends I don't know why
as an 11-year-old I felt the need to
pretend that I didn't like a movie that
was you know made for 11-year-old as if
all my friends were going to be like
High School Musical I don't know man
sounds a little immature to me I only
watch war footage I'm a very violent
young man either way something I did not
realize as a kid is how low budget these
movies were the first movie was made on
a budget of $4.2 million which might
sound like a lot but Zombies 3 which is
a newer decom cost $40 million to make
in Zombies defense though they needed
the money those werewolf costumes looked
pretty expensive High School Musical was
shot in just a couple of weeks at a real
high school using real students as
extras in fact they were so strapped for
cash they couldn't even afford a real
title apparently High School Musical was
just the working title for the script
and they were like we'll come up with a
better one eventually and then they
didn't I'm very excited to see if these
movies hold up to my jaded adult eyes so
let's start with the first one let me
introduce you to the two main characters
of this movie Troy and Gabriella they
don't know each other yet but they're
both on vacation with their respective
families at a ski resort on New Year's
Eve and right away this movie shows you
everything you need to know about these
characters in like 2 minutes Gabriella
is nerd girl she doesn't want to go to
the teen party because she's busy
reading a book meanwhile Troy's dad is
the most stereotypical Disney dad to
ever grace the screen not only is Mr
Bolton Troy's dad he's also the coach of
Troy's high school basketball team so
instead of getting ready for the parties
he's making Troy run drills in the hotel
JY am I going left yeah he looks middle
you take it downtown well Troy it's New
Year's Eve you know what that means
that's right Dad I I might finally get
my first kid fake right take the ball
downtown Troy's mom comes to get them
for the party and Troy asks if he can
have one more basket with all of the
confidence and Swagger of a real high
school jock come on one more one more
just one more basket please Troy shows
up to the teen party and is immediately
yawning his face off all right hell yeah
this is clearly a popular jock who knows
how to party somehow despite being the
two most bored people at the party the
spotlight chooses Troy and Gabriella to
sing karaoke but to the spotlight
operator's credit they actually do crush
it they both get up there and they're
nervous at first but then all of a
sudden Troy's voice it's like it changes
almost actually it's like his voice
changes from his voice to like a
professional singer's
voice cuz that is what happens
actually in my own
world I think this might be like the
most well-known High School Musical
trivia but for the vast majority of the
first High School Musical movie it's not
Zack Efron's Voice singing he had a
voice double his name is Drew cely and
he never appears on screen in the movies
he also apparently didn't even realize
how big of a movie High School Musical
was and forgot that he had done the
vocals for the movie until it came on
the TV while he was working a shift at
PF Changs apparently he tried to
convince his co-workers that it was
really him singing in the movie and no
one believed him it's kind of funny cuz
the whole point of the movie is kind of
like hey basketball guys can sing too if
they
Wana uh but not this basketball guy
actually you don't want to hear this
basketball voice so they crush the song
They're dancing around on stage together
it's like they were born to perform but
for me personally little Viking boy
really steals the
show you guys know little Viking boy
right he's basically the star of the
movie look at him back there he's
leaving it all on the Dance Floor man wa
sorry I almost fell backwards it's just
he actually is getting a little bit too
into this this guy's locking eyes with
me like we've been madly in love for
years and why his voice suddenly gets so
much more
[Applause]
theatrical I guess I better go find my
mom and wish her a happy New Year this
is so romantic I should say something
romantic I got to go find my mom and
then she vanishes and he never sees her
again that's right you thought the movie
was going to be about Troy and Gabriella
n now the rest of this movie is about
Troy and Viking boy Flash Forward Troy
returns to his High School East High
where he is seemingly a god amongst men
and then um actually I don't uh I don't
remember this scene yeah I don't know
what happens here at all looks like the
teacher is about to maybe give some kind
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unbeknownst to him there's a new student
at East High I reviewed your impressive
transcripts I expect your light will
shine very brightly here at East High I
don't want to be the school's freaky
genius girl again freaky genius girl
what did you do at your last School Troy
notices that Gabriella is sitting in the
back of their drama class and not to be
nitpicky but this drama class scene
lasts for 2 minutes but the class
happens in real time from start to
finish in that 2 minutes the Bell
Rings they sit down the whole class gets
detention and then the Bell Rings again
and they leave how long is a school day
at East Tha is it like 15 minutes Troy
shows Gabriella around they catch up a
little bit and it is revealed that East
High is having auditions for their
winter musical pretty soon Troy jokes
that Gabriella should sign up because
you know they sang together and
Gabriella's response is basically [ __ ]
no I won't be signing up for anything
for a while yeah I don't know why I
remembered this movie differently I
thought they both wanted to do the
Musical Troy seems to maybe want to do
it and Gabrielle is like no I'm not
doing that no I don't sing I'm not a
freaky genius girl and I'm definitely
not a freaky singer girl so dude you
know that uh School Musical thing um
Troy the music in those shows isn't
hip-hop okay or Rock it's like show
music yeah and you guys would never do
anything like sing show music
right and then cut to them singing the
hardest show music in this entire movie
that's the funny thing about this movie
since it's a movie about a musical there
are several characters in this movie
that are opposed to musicals so it is a
little jarring to see those characters
seemingly completely unaware that they
are literally singing and dancing right
now but on the other hand I guess it
would also be weird if they didn't sing
when everyone else was at the end when
they're all singing We're All in This
Together Corbin Blue's just standing
around
like this is lame there's two parts in
the song though where Troy like stops
rapping to s sing from the heart about
how he wants to do the musical she makes
this Feel So Right should I go for it
what do you mean she makes this Feel So
Right and should I go for it Gabriella
doesn't want to do the musical it was
your idea and she said no don't drag her
into this this girl's making me crazy no
you're crazy you already were and then
you met a girl that's what happened also
Zack Efron is 58 and presumably so is
everybody else on this basketball team
cuz they're all like the same height so
how good exactly are they at basketball
okay now you got Sharpe who's played by
Ashley Tisdale she's like the head of
the theater department at school she's
the theater kid and her brother Ryan is
the theater kid in boy form they are
getting a little bit worried that Troy
and Gabriella might audition for the
musical again Gabriella has showed zero
interest in doing the musical so they
decide to do a little bit of research on
Gabriella so they search her name on the
Internet and they find out she's this
freaky genius girl that she said she was
she's won all of these Awards She's won
Scholastic competitions and the like but
also uh what is the third result there
Gabriella San Diego Zoo's
newest what what is Gabriella at the San
Diego Zoo Ryan's like oh that's
interesting look it says here she's a
dolphin that's funny now that I think
about it I can't believe I never noticed
after basketball practice it's time for
Troy to go home and relax just kidding
it's time for more basketball come on
Troy bake CL take the ball down to did
you ever think about trying something
new but we're afraid of what your
friends might think you mean like going
left you're doing fine come on Troy's
dead D has one thing in his mind and it
is one basketball just bouncing around
like the DVD logo I want to see a movie
about him and how hard his life must be
I do like that this movie keeps the
tradition alive of Disney Channel movie
characters being inexplicably rich his
dad is a high school basketball coach
and they live in a mansion what does the
mom do she an arms dealer also he says
something new like going left me like
going left when in get ahead in the game
Troy clearly says coach said to fake
right and break left he already said to
do that that's not new that's what he
already does
so found a plot hole next Troy sneaks
away from his friends to go audition for
the musical I guess the voices in his
head that he thinks are Gabriella got
too strong and he now has to act on
[Music]
them he's
gone wow where didd he go pay no
attention to the fact that as he turns
the corner he probably fully saw Troy
like meanwhile Troy's dad is just
standing there like huh that's weird
could have sworn I saw basketball now
when we see the auditions it becomes
immediately clear that while Ryan and
Sharpe are basically made out to be the
villains of this movie cuz they're so
overprotective of their theater
department they are completely in the
right to do so not because their
audition is really good which it
actually is but because everyone else's
is so bad it's hard to believe that I
couldn't sne me it seems that no one
else in this entire school can even sing
it seems like they actually don't even
have a concept of what music is so like
yeah I would actually be hoping I got
the lead too it is funny how they all
act like they can't sing and then
anytime there's like an actual musical
number as part of the movie every member
of the student body sings their heart
out like the rent is do what's going on
there so Troy shows up to audition and
then Gabriella shows up too I guess
turns out she actually did want to
audition I don't know I don't know if
Troy threaten her or what but she shows
up but they are too late to the actual
audition so they don't get to audition
in time but they stick around afterwards
and just sing an audition anyway and
Miss Daris the director hears them and
decides you know what you guys get a
call back understandably so she's
working with a very small talent pool
Here Comes two people who know what a
song is she's got to hold on to that
after school before school whatever
works after basketball class we can get
this ring so now this is interesting
Troy is looking at his sheet music like
he's never seen it before in his life
despite having just sung the song
Perfectly after only glancing at the
sheet music briefly he also says what
what to almost imply he has no clue how
the sheet music got into his hands or
how he got a call back does he not know
that he just sang anytime there's a
musical number in this movie do they
just black out and come to like I don't
know what
happened we definitely didn't sing
though I don't know
how if you're my age it might have felt
like this movie was written just for you
and it came out and in a sense it kind
of was the writer Peter barini who was
mostly known for writing rated our
action movies at the time started
writing the script because he wanted to
make a movie he could watch with his
daughter Gabriella I thought it would be
really fun to write a Disney Channel
movie that my daughter could watch yes
he did name the main character after her
and that kind of melts my heart she was
10 in 2004 when he started writing it
and so was I the story was actually
inspired by his own high school
experience when one of his basketball
teammates confided in him about his love
for ballet decades later Peter thought
wow that's actually a perfect plot for a
kids movie boys are more than just jocks
they can do other stuff they can do
ballet
or No actually that's that's too far
they could do the musical but only if
it's cuz they want to sing with a girl
anyway it's time for another song about
how basketball players shouldn't sing
sung by you guessed it the basketball
[Music]
players status quo is actually such a
fantastic song it features several
students who decide that hey since Troy
and Gabrielle are breaking out of their
stereotypical roles in this school so
can I Zeke the basketball player decides
to let everyone know hey not only do I
play basketball I also bake I bake this
nerdy girl loves hip-hop this Stoner
skater guy likes to play the cello and
everyone in the school [ __ ] hates
it we're skaters bro we don't play the
cello we only skate and smoke weed and
of course we
sing now of course this movie is very
self-aware about this contradiction and
I love it for that but it does not make
sense at the beginning of this song Zeke
says I want to make a creme brulee some
day and then at the end of the song he
actually has a creme brulee so he
presumably baked this creme brulee at
some point during the song it cuts to
him sprinting down the hallway to the
kitchen you can hear Everyone Else
singing echoing in the background he's
like they don't believe me they don't
believe I can bake I got to show them so
Gabriella shows up and everyone is of
course staring at her cuz they were all
just singing about her they're staring
at her they're pissed and they kill
her they kill Gabriella at my other
schools I was the freaking math well I
hate to break it to you Gabriela but you
are a freak here too everyone at this
school thinks you're a freak now also
the entire student body I don't know if
you heard they actually just sang an
entire song about it now you're the
freaky singing girl so you really want
to do the callbacks just call me freaky
callback
boy you're a cool guy Choy
thanks I said call me freaky callback
boy sorry this is a close practice
dad come on practice is over I until the
last player leaves the gym I'll see you
later
Trey nice meeting you coach
wolton there's a lot of tension here
like Mr Bolton actually hates Gabriella
he hates this 15-year-old girl with all
his mice like you will never be a
basketball get out of my son's life we
know the truth go back to the zoo you
dolphin she's not a problem she's just a
girl but you're not just a guy Troy
you're not just a guy
Troy you're freaky callback boy call me
freaky callback boy you're a
playmaker not a
singer did you ever think maybe I could
be
both the look on his face is like damn I
really never did think of that because
this whole singing thing is getting in
the way of Troy's basketball
responsibilities his team decides to get
together with Gabrielle's friends to try
to break the two apart the plan consists
of getting Troy to badmouth Gabriella
by listing the names of basketball
players who went to their high school 20
years ago spider Bill NR class of 72
Samy slam jam and you want to know the
crazy thing it works I've always been
for the team she's just someone I met
all right the singing thing is nothing
we're supposed to believe he doesn't see
them set up a webcam right in front of
his face to record him shitalking his
girlfriend they might as well be filming
on like a giant hand crank film camera
the kind where you got to put a blanket
over your head to even see the image try
100 % sees the camera and does not care
who sees what he's saying the thunder
clap Gabriella is not important after
this happens Gabriella doesn't want to
talk to Troy anymore and this really
hits Troy hard as you can see
here the pain is manifesting itself in
Troy physically here as he can't even
shoot a basket without experiencing
immense physical trauma aren't
basketball players supposed to be good
Under Pressure especially the captain of
the team seems like this whole movie
we've seen nothing short of the
psychological unravel in of Troy because
he's sang with a girl one time hey we
just had another team meeting we just
had another team meeting man and we just
wanted to say we forgot about JJ buckets
Jenkins class of 1984 does that change
your mind so later Troy sneaks up onto
Gabriella's balcony again huge house no
explanation to try to win her
back this could be the start of
something new it feels so right to be
here
with you okay yeah I don't remember this
part being so pitchy but this actually
is Zack Efron's voice here yeah this is
very uncomfortable can we can we get
Drew cely in here please start
[Music]
something it's a peirs audition saying
it's a paars audition kind of implies
like I would audition without you if I
could I guess Troy meant what he said
earlier to the webcam he really does not
care about Gabriella he just wants to be
in the musical Gabriella is not
important you might make the mistake
like I did when I watched this as a kid
of thinking this is kind of like a Romeo
and Juliet story about Troy and Gabriela
uh and it is a Romeo and Juliet story
but Gabriella is not Juliet Juliet is
just the musical how you
feeling nervous yeah me too wish I could
suit up and play alongside you yeah no
[ __ ] what I want is for you to have fun
I know all about the pressure and
probably too much of it has come from me
I can't help but feel like all that
screaming at you and making you play
basketball until your hands bleed has
had some kind of negative effect on you
but all I want in life is for you to be
happy while playing basketball I am
still demanding that thanks coach
ah
Dad let's stick with Coach unless you
win all right sharp and Ryan try to
throw another wrench into Troy and
Gabriella's plans of attending the
callbacks for the musical by getting the
call backs changed to the exact same
time as not only Troy's championship
basketball game also Gabriella's to
cathlon tournament so the Gang has to
create a diversion that way they can
make all three events so Gabriella and
her genius friends first hack the
school's power grid to turn off the
lights at the basketball game then they
create a chemical reaction at the
decathlon so everyone has to evacuate
and you know
what I get why everyone called her a
freaky genius girl at her last school I
think she deserved it she's like oh we
can use a chemical reaction I did this
at my last school we just have to make
sure we don't make it as strong this
time that way not as many people will
die not as many so Troy and Gabriella
get to do their call back breaking free
classic song and look the whole school
shows up even the opposing basketball
team is there they crush the audition
Troy heads back to the basketball game
and they win that too and then they all
sing the big closing number of the movie
We're All in This Together We're All in
This Together wow I guess they all
learned a valuable lesson except hang on
Sharpe you did not learn a lesson get
out of this song don't sing and dance
with them like you learned a valuable
lesson get get out if Gabriella dropped
dead right now you would dance on her
grave and that's High School Musical one
many people lovingly remember little
Viking boy from the first High School
Musical movie and while he rocketed to
stardom in the wake of the first movie
his troubled life and full from Grace
has been the subject of many concerned
Twitter threads in the 19 years since do
you know why I pulled you over today sir
huh I said do you know why I pulled you
over you're all over the road all right
you want to play tough [ __ ] that's
fine all right step out of the vehicle
take off that helmet no I can't take
this off it's a birth defect it's part
of my body are you drunk I don't know
huh let's think about that does crack
get you drunk H let's think about that
for a second let's all think does crack
get you drunk after 15 DUIs and three
counts of kidnapping exotic animals
little Viking boy was sentenced to life
in prison authorities claim that it's
here he became head of an extremist
religious cult his followers helped him
Escape in 20123 and his current
whereabouts are unknown although he does
occasionally post to Instagram to
frantically proclaim the end is near or
post a brand deal every morning I wake
up and I drink six bangs High School
Musical premiered to 7.7 million viewers
a record that has only been broken a
handful of times in the nearly 20 years
since but one of my favorite things to
come out of the success of this movie
which I totally forgot about until I was
making this video was the live concert I
forgot about this until I went to the
library to check out the DVDs for the
three movies and they happen to have a
DVD of the recording of High School
Musical in concert this feels pretty
unusual even to this day for a Disney
Channel movie to put together a live
touring concert featuring the actual
cast of the movie selling out Arenas
with audiences in the tens of thousands
around the world but it wasn't the whole
cast actually Zach Efron couldn't be
there because he had a commitment he was
filming hairspray at the time so who did
they get to fill in for him in my own
world understand it's Drew
sely Drew Drew Drew Drew Drew Drew Drew
Drew sely I'm sure they advertised the
fact that Zach wasn't going to be there
and Drew would be in his place but I
have to imagine every concert there were
like one or two kids that were
like what the
[ __ ] Zach looks different in person with
all the success of the first movie they
had to crank out a sequel fast which
they did releasing High School Musical 2
in August of 2007 and you might think it
would be in possible for them to catch
lightning in a bottle twice but oh baby
did they what time is it sequel time
High School Musical 2 is often regarded
as the best High School Musical movie
out of any High School Musical movie
this one has the most moments that have
lived on in the cultural Zeitgeist even
today the movie starts just as the
school year is ending the musical is
long over so if you are expecting to see
the musical that they were just
auditioning for in the first movie get
that out of your head right now you're
never going to see that music summer to
refresh and illuminate your fertile
young minds one of the first things I
noticed is that despite only a few
months having passed from the events of
the first movie Troy looks drastically
different his hair is much darker he has
a different haircut so you can see his
ears now but most strikingly of all his
eyes have somehow become more blue
you're actually listening his eyes were
already pretty blue in the first movie
but they're piercing in this film it is
scary get some contacts you free the
clock 215 and the first Banger of this
movie commences the class immediately
erupts in celebration they throw their
papers in the air start dancing around
and did Chad just kiss his teacher on
the
neck yeah he okay he just kissed Miss
darbus on the neck that's too far
luckily it doesn't look like she cared
she's just
violent we finally get to hear Zach
Efron actually sing in this song and I
hate to admit it but he sounds pretty
good I'm sorry Drew your services are no
longer needed he does end the song in a
very strange manner
though yeah the song ends there's
silence and then Troy breaks away from
the group to slide on the floor and say
yeah why does he do that now the trouble
in this movie begins because Troy wants
to make some extra cash this summer his
parents are making him pay for college
despite them clearly being very wealthy
taking vacations at ski resorts and
living in a literal Mansion but I got to
get hired first me too I'm saving up for
a car so I can take that little HTI on a
proper date you can't see it but he's
actually not talking about that girl in
his grade Miss darbus is just standing
right outside of
Fran he in Troy
what yeah why does he looks so confused
there it's like it never occurred to him
that t could be for Troy he's like oh I
actually thought it was a cross but yeah
no yeah t for Troy that's my name now
that the school year's over and
basketball season isn't starting back up
again for months it's time for you
guessed it basketball practice fake
right Troy fake left take the ball
Uptown for a fancy dinner tell you what
seeing moves I didn't see last season
Keep It Coming guys this post-workout
scene has a lot of gems like Mr Bolton's
insanely long shorts dude is criminally
insecure about his knees also Troy about
to drink from an entire gallon of milk
from the fridge and then he gets a phone
call revealing that his ringtone is get
you head in the
game uh-oh is that had a real song in
this universe so in the first movie it
seemed like Sharpe might have had a
little crush on Troy but in this movie
she's got a big crush on Troy she's like
he's the most popular guy in school and
I think I'm the most popular girl in
school it's a match made in heaven so
she pulls some strings at her family's
Country Club to get Troy a summer job
there the only catch is Troy requests to
get like the entire School hired and
somehow that works so Troy shows up with
his entire basketball team you got Chad
there also the nerdy girl who loves to
hip-hop dance got a job there you got
Vanessa hudgin stunt double working
there Montes it would seem your lunch
break does not start for 3.5 minutes in
order to keep the conflict of this movie
moving along they have to make it seem
like their job is really demanding but
they also have to tow the line of not
making it seem like these kids are being
abused in some way because they are just
kids so some of the insane demands that
their job is asking of them is just like
hey can you show up to work on time and
make sure you clock out at the end of
your ship and the entire student body of
East High is like we're in prison
they're not going to pay us until we
provide a service what kind of dystopian
universe is this Mr fton is 100% correct
to be strict by the way several times
throughout this movie he catches them
doing things they're very clearly not
supposed to be doing like having a
picnic on the golf course during the day
while people are playing golf or
swimming in the pool after hours when
there's no lifeguard present and every
time he's like um hey guys could you
could you not do this anymore and Troy's
just like man what the [ __ ] is this
guy's problem suddenly I'm beginning to
miss detention with M darbus yeah I bet
you are you
freak
Toom you guys you've been working for 30
minutes this is a job this is just what
jobs are I don't mention the is such a
creep okay wait hold on what did he what
did he do to you maybe I spoke too soon
if he's actually a creep I take back
everything I said so Sharpe didn't just
have Troy hired she actually has a whole
plan to lure Troy in starting with
getting her dad to pull some strings at
the University of Albuquerque's
basketball team to give Troy a chance at
a scholarship so Troy I saw your
championship game I mean wow that last
second shot at the buzzer outstanding if
I was a basketball recruiter and I saw
that championship game I would be more
concerned about the lights going out and
then everybody leaving at the same time
to watch the star basketball player
audition for a musical and then come
back and win the game like nothing
happened and then also how they all sang
a song after that that's what I would be
concerned about but yeah I'm sure he
played well too you know between the two
of us here we uh we pull a little weight
over at the school ah well um time flies
when you're having fun I'm not really
sure what prompts that reaction they're
like you know we could do a lot of great
things for your future we really want to
help you Troy and he's like I don't know
I'm getting the [ __ ] out of here guys
see you if that were Mr Bolton there
instead of Troy right now he would be
he'd be barking like a dog he dad let me
play a few holes and then invited me to
dinner with some U OFA alumni really oh
wait Troy's dad is fixing up a car look
he has other Hobbies good for him
granted he is propping up the hood of
the car with a basketball and there's
more basketball and Hoops in the
background and I do kind of feel like if
we could see what he's working on there
would just be five basketballs where the
engine is supposed to be but it's a step
in the right direction Troy's dad
surprisingly is all for Troy going for
the basketball scholarship nothing wrong
with keeping your eye on the prize and
that's great I totally agree with that
Troy should cap capitalize on these
opportunities he's been given but he
should try to make his girlfriend and
his friends a priority too however that
is not what Troy does so it's all in the
grip you got to hold it just right ooh
that looks great hey I almost
forgot I heard a Swiss on my Burg so go
ahead and check it out man hey I almost
forgot get back in the kitchen you broke
[ __ ] and get your money on look
at
you go te yeah it's a gift from the guys
typical high school jock always doing
cool spin dance moves to get from the
guy I love sports to get from the
guy look how much taller the actual
basketball players are than Troy I hate
to say it man he's going to get crushed
in college he doesn't stand a chance and
not to mention they definitely don't
take singing breaks in the middle of
practice next we get the absolute
classic I Don't Dance featuring you
guessed it a lot of dancing I Don't
Dance this song is great but tell me why
at the end of the song Ryan and Chad are
wearing each other's clothes cuz they
don't ever address that it's such a
confusing part of the movie why did they
change clothes when when did they get
naked so I was confused about this so I
actually went looking and I found an
article where the two actors explained
what happened the outfit swap was
actually suggested by director Kenny
Ortega quote he had the on the-fly idea
at the last minute blue said we had
already done one take of that scene and
he did the usual thinking gesture and
said switch outfits bro was cooking bro
was you I don't know what he was cooking
but bro was cooking something hey we
missed out on a fun night but the
dessert afterwards had to be the best
part her mom makes the best brownies in
the entire world I've had them I've had
them I've had her [ __ ] brownies I
like that that was the thing that pissed
him off he was like look I can catch you
romantically dancing with my girlfriend
at Sunset until the cows come home but
you touch her mom's [ __ ] brownies
you're dead we're fighting and let's
just say by the end of the
fight I'm going to be wearing your
clothes blowing off your friends missing
dates if that's you it's good to know no
no no no no missing dates blowing off
friends this is nothing like the Troy I
met last year who blew off his friends
and missed basketball to audition for
the musical with me I
got then Gabriella sings a song breaking
up with Troy called I got to go my own
way I got to go my own way I like that
she finishes the last line of the song
after she's gotten in the car so like
Troy can't hear her anymore Gabriella
just gets in the car and her mom's like
how is work and she's like I got to go
my own way all right hell yeah we are
going our own way we're going home I
like this song all right the pressure
has mounted Troy's about ready to crack
which means it's time for the most
iconic song of all bet on it I love this
song so much great choreography the fact
that he's dancing across an Open golf
course that is currently in use I don't
know if his promotions that he got got
entitled him to have a dancing crisis on
the golf course but he's really going
for it he's going Allin risking getting
absolutely beamed by a golf ball oh and
now he's in the
[Music]
wilderness what Troy respectfully I
think you have a lot more to worry about
than your golf
swing that's not what this song is about
is it I guess it's kind of vague
[Music]
hell yeah dude you know powerful lyrics
aside I actually have no clue what he's
decided on at the end of this song he's
kind of just like you can bet on me I'm
going to end up on top I got this and
it's like what are you actually going to
do though are you going to get Gabriella
back are you going to do the talent show
he's
like no I was just going to stand on top
of this mountain for the rest of the
summer
actually no one can be mad at me up here
the end of this movie is messed up
Sharpe actually turns her actor around
she previously got the wild cats banned
from the Country Club talent show but
she decides you know what they can do
their act as long as Troy still does his
song with me she agrees to this and then
the wild cats turn around secretly
remove sharpi from the talent show and
stick Troy back in their musical number
it's like dude why did you even make her
agree to it if you were just going to go
behind her back and do it on your own
anyway shpe I'm sorry man you got played
really
we and Gabrielle is
here why she forgives him now it's
actually not clear at all what Troy did
to win Gabriella back they haven't seen
each other since she drove away singing
Maybe word got to her that Troy was
angrily prancing around the golf course
and she was like oh God it's gotten too
bad I got to step
[Music]
in the last song of this movie is called
All For One
um I don't know I kind of feel like they
lost a little bit of inspiration at the
end here kind of feels like they forgot
what moral they were working towards for
the end of this one and they were like
and we're all together in this one also
and the movie ends with Gabriela wooing
several times while looking over at Troy
for
approval and that's the end of the movie
and now I'm very excited to watch the
third movie but before I do there's
something I need to address I feel like
there's something deeply wrong in these
movies and I'm I feel like I'm finally
starting to get a handle on it these
movies like they don't really feel like
musicals and it took me a while to
figure out why so to explain it to you
we're going to have to go back to
Medieval Europe in a French town in 1518
some 400 people became inexplicably
overcome by an urge to dance they did so
for weeks on end this dancing plague as
it was later coined lasted for months
and only ended when participants were
either so exhausted that they collapsed
or so exhausted that they were dead
authorities tried to stop the dancing
even hiring musicians to play vigorously
to try to help them get all the dancing
out of their system this of course made
things much worse this event has baffled
scientists and historians for years but
many believe it could be the result of a
particular type of food poisoning yeah
crops like Rye can end up growing a type
of fungus that basically makes you crazy
could it be that this is what's
happening at East High in the High
School Musical Universe the characters
they sing and they dance and at first
you might think this is just just like
any other musical the characters aren't
really spontaneously breaking into song
it's more an artistic depiction of how
they're feeling but a closer look
reveals something shocking well firstly
sometimes they definitely are actually
singing like at the karaoke party now
you might think that A Moment Like get
you head in the game is totally
different you know that song doesn't
really exist within this universe but
what is Troy's ringtone in the second
movie but how could an entire School
become poisoned by a rare fungus this
man who convinced us he had relevant
qualifications believes it could have
been a certain freaky genius girl it
could be that by growing a fungus in a
lab Gabriel was able to manufacture a
sort of singing and dancing craze to
control Troy who I'm pretty sure would
have never done all of that stuff had he
not been under some kind of drug induced
hysteria after all Troy is so cool and
singing is for weirdos so it could be
the fungus or maybe Gabrielle is some
kind of [ __ ] witch the High School
Musical bonus soundtrack you love High
School Musical hits like get you head in
the game well now's your chance to own
the extended soundtrack featuring songs
that didn't quite make the final cut
like coach Bolton's crisis what's up
guys I'm 16 I'm the new player on the
basketball team I'm really excited to
play yeah Mr Bolton we know it's you and
Gabriel is on the news a little boy
drown in the pool oh no a little boy
drown in the pool no where was The
Lifeguard having a picnic and a preview
of the finale song from High School
Musical 3 we're all friends together
with each other we're all together at
the end again and we're friends we're
still friends and classmates we go to
school together we learned a lesson and
now we're going to switch
clothes from the guys High School
Musical 2 Broke the premiere record that
the first High School Musical had just
set instead of 7 million viewers this
one had 17 million viewers so of course
they had to make a third one high school
Musical 3 senior Year the only one in
the franchise with a subtitle now
outside of the fact that they're all
seniors in this movie which I can tell
by the title of the film I actually know
next to nothing about this one I've
never seen it yeah I know I made it
sound like I was a really big High
School Musical fan but by the time the
third one came out I was 14 and unlike
the first two this one came out in
theaters and as a freshman in high
school I was much too embarrassed to ask
my friends if they would go see a High
School Musical movie in theaters with me
so I decided it would be way less
embarrassing if I waited until I was 30
years old to watch it for the first time
in front of millions of people and we're
back at East tie baby Zach's playing
basketball there's a there's a dog in
the crowd is this an airbud crossover
Zack's like oh my head's just not in the
game tonight can we get in the sub this
gold lab comes in and just slam dunks it
a couple times the movie opens on the
wild cats with their backs against the
wall it's the championship game they're
behind and there's only 16 minutes
left whoa Mr Bolton rocking a middle
part that's new Mr Bolton gives a speech
about how there's only 16 minutes left
16 minutes left and then they sing a
song about how there's only 16 minutes
[Applause]
[Music]
left ooh a song about there being 16
minutes left in a game we're getting
very specific with these songs I think
they're starting to run out of
[Music]
ideas this is the last time make Dad
proud if I don't then he never will be
hell yeah he won the championship
game again I'm noticing right away that
this movie is like much higher
production value than the other two I'm
curious to see the budget on this bad
boy cuz this movie looks like they
actually like lit it the other two just
kind of look like they set up cameras
and started filming but there's there's
lights in this
one so now they're having like the
biggest high school rager ever and they
expect us to believe that they're not
insanely Rich this is I'm pretty sure
this is in Troy's backyard hey Troy
great house bro your room is Way Cool oh
thanks yeah you were in my room well
yeah I just took a picture yeah I just
took a picture of your room man he's a
secret agent for the IRS he's like how
did your family get so rich well another
top secret hiding
place you're the second girl I've ever
had up here yeah it is top secret I
couldn't even see it up there
just looks like a regular Tree to me
it's here we find out that while Troy is
a shoe in for the basketball team at UFA
Gabriel has already been accepted to
Stanford I sense a conflict in the movie
Troy's going to University of
Albuquerque to play basketball and
Gabriella is going to learn how to
create the singularity at Stanford so
they sing a song about cherishing the
present moment did they like challenge
themselves to make a song with no
dancing in this one but like what if we
just sat for a whole song o now he's up
well that was it that was the whole
dance no it doesn't work with this song
juliard is considering four of you for
one available scholarship Sharpe Evans
Mr Ryan Evans Miss Kelsey nson and
lastly Mr Troy Bolton
what since when does that guy have a
evil cackle I mean I was surprised too
but that guy threw his head back and
squealed he submit his name to juliard
to some kind of evil plan to get him
killed they're trying to come up with
some ideas for the spring musical which
I'm just now realizing they write every
year like they don't do a pre-existing
musical they write their own musical
every year all of you will create it
that's why in the first movie they call
Kelsey the composer she literally writes
the musical isn't that crazy but to get
some ideas Miss Daris asks the seniors
about their future your
future it's easy it's U OFA Hoops all
the way yeah is University of
Albuquerque like a really good school
for basketball I feel like I've never
heard of them before all the basketball
players are like we got to get to UFA
man it seems like that's just like the
closest college that has a basketball
team meanwhile Gabrielle is going to
Stanford sharp is going to juliar and
they're like I don't know we can go play
basketball down the street for the
record the reason I've never heard of
the University of Albuquerque is because
it's a Catholic liberal art school that
actually um closed in 1986 so I guess
these characters live in some sort of
alternate Dimension where it stayed open
and went on to become a basketball
Powerhouse Mr
Bolton Mr Bolton yeah
uh all of a sudden he doesn't know if he
wants to go to juliard or UFA see he
really never did care about Gabriella he
just wants to sing
somebody just let this kid sing just
tell him it's
okay that song started so abruptly no
intro no buildup it's kind of
[Music]
scary oh this is a a look into some kind
of strange alternate future where Troy
chose neither basketball or juliard and
became a stalker I want that to be how
this movie ends Troy choosing between
two incredible Futures and instead he
just throws his life away like I can't I
can't decide I don't [ __ ] know Miss D
said that there's only one scholarship
there's two of us wait they're doing
this to compete for a scholarship not
even just a like a place at juliard if I
know anything about these two it's that
they can both afford to go to juliar why
do they need to take the scholarship
away from somebody else which one do you
think I should wear well I've never been
asked to a prom but this almost sounds
like an invitation did she say she's
never been asked to prom
what about last year they were dating
last year Troy didn't want to go to prom
with her his dad was probably making him
run basketball drills the only place
you're going Troy is downtown with the
ball make sure you bring the ball time
for another song about how much Troy and
Gabriella love each other there's
already like two very sentimental songs
between these two they are really
setting us up for heartbreak I feel and
also just spending like an unnecessary
amount of time being like these two are
in love okay don't don't forget that
they're in love that way when whatever
happen happens happens we're going to
all be sad all right so that way when
Troy picks UFA and Gabriella gets hit by
a bus it's going to be sad I think
they're going to end up going to the
same College they they couldn't possibly
end this entire series by being like eh
they didn't actually like each other
that much they're just going to they're
just going to call it
quits where's our clothes yo Rocket Man
why do I feel like they're about to Haze
these kids you know we weren't just
given these lockers we had to earn them
right right oh they're definitely about
to Haze these kids now drink this entire
bottle of absolute that'd be a crazy
twist in this
movie just a little hazing Troy is not
better than doing some hazing Oh I
thought I heard you I was just making
some snacks inside are you guys hungry
only if it's your brownies I've had them
I've had them I've had them bring those
out of here could you take me after
school to check out that tuxedo tuxedo
for what for prom oh honey if that's
what you call an invitation you'll be
dancing with
yourself he's like okay I wasn't
inviting you I'm going to ask Miss Daris
then comes a song about getting ready
for prom featuring I think the funniest
moment in any of these
movies weird yo this movie is kind of
funny
man makes me look
weird I like that they're like should I
wear pla or Ruffles or a really old suit
and it's like no you should wear just go
just go to Men's Warehouse and ask for a
prom tuxedo should I wear the ugliest
thing that you've ever seen now just go
tell them you're going to prom and
they'll just give you the most generic
tux you've ever
seen this reminds me of when I was a
senior in high school and I was getting
ready to go for prom and I sang this
song called it's going to be the Night
to Remember and me and all my boys got
dressed up in weird suits and danced
around on the stage this is kind of just
like that actually let's Dan am I crazy
or is is there like actually too much
music in this movie I feel like the plot
is kind of moving at a snail's pace cuz
every 2 minutes there's a song and it's
like here's what's going on right now
we're thinking about going to prom we're
Troy and Gabriella we like each other
also the stakes feel very low right now
what am I supposed to be worried about
right now Troy is like I don't know what
college I want to go to and Gabriella's
like I also have choices to make I still
have decisions to make too and she has
not elaborated and so I don't know what
I'm supposed to be worried about now
they're at some kind of
junkyard just hanging out of the
junkyard as if we've always known that
this is what they do you see what
happens when you do a show you're like
five people D but what's so bad about
that man we used to come here as kids
we'd be 10 people yeah I remember that
cuz they used to talk about that in all
the other movies how they used to come
to the
junkyard take it back to the place where
you know it all finally the boys are
back at the junkyard so that we had a
song establishing that Troy and
Gabrielle are in love now we have a song
establishing that Troy and Chad are
friends this kind of reminds me of
senior year in high school when I danced
around in the junkyard with my best
friend and we sang a song about how the
boys are
back it's weirdly similar
actually whoa the junkmen who live in
the junkyard are here what's going on
what if Troy and Chad turn around and
see them and they're like wao what the
[ __ ] who are you maybe I'll just stay
here next year stay in Albuquerque that
makes no sense then why do I always have
to make sense why do I always have to
make sense why can't sometimes I just
say what are you going to uh tell me
about
this juliard the only dad to ever be
pissed off that his son is getting
considered for a scholarship at one of
the most prestigious colleges in the
country hey Troy come on ah damn he's
too fast get back here the director for
that scene was like okay how could you
guys like run away but also walk away at
the same
time oh no he's going crazy again
painful basketball time time to scream
and shoot some
hoops I like that little pouty dance up
the stairs okay Troy for this one you're
a pouty toddler now you're a
[Music]
[Applause]
crab man he wasn't kidding he was really
going to scream well now that he did it
I hope he can figure out what he's going
to do now that I got that out of my
system I'm for sure going back to U OFA
I don't care about
singing Miss D I know I'm not supposed
to be here aren't you last one out turns
off the
lights you know she might seem cool
about Troy being there right now but as
she walks through the school to get back
to her car she realizes he totally
trashed the place she's like he tore
down posters he flipped an entire
hallway upside down how did he do this I
don't think I can do it Troy
uhoh is that a Dr Pepper in the
background that looks good I've chosen
basketball but I've also chosen
theater the University of California
Berkeley
okay I'll be honest I did not know that
that was a that was an
[Applause]
option they made the Mr Beast logo
I like that they're performing for the
camera and not for the audience who's
here to see them graduate they're just
like facing away from the bleachers all
their parents are like damn I wish I
could see their faces I don't even know
which one's my kid now they're all now
they're all just going to smile at the
camera for the rest of their lives they
say we're not going to college baby
we're going to stare at this camera
forever and that's it that's high school
schol musical baby as far as endings go
I think they did a decent job with a
nearly impossible task it's a Disney
Channel movie so it's not like they can
just like make everybody break up and go
their separate ways at the end of the
movie that would be too sad obviously
but they also can't make everybody just
go to the same college and do the same
thing cuz that would be unrealistic so
it leaves the door open my only issue is
that in doing that they kind of don't
really provide any closure feels like
they kind of just pushed Troy's decision
of what he wants to do with his life
further down the road but if you are
looking for some closure for Troy I
might have something that
helps I mentioned earlier that the
character of Troy was inspired by one of
the writer's real high school teammates
but when I read that for the first time
on Wikipedia I was surprised to find
that that teammate has his own Wikipedia
article and that's because that
classmate Lyn Swan went on to be a
professional football player playing for
the Pittsburgh Steelers and winning the
Super Bowl four times this man is the
real life Troy Bolton and that might be
the least interesting thing about him in
fact he might not even know it really
helped you in your game all the things
that ballet taught you you applied that
to the football field touchdown
Pittsburgh did you catch any Flack from
your teammates about taking ballet I
mean oh
always it's a gift from the guys but
I'll always remember a Hall of Famer Who
Rose to the occasion each time a paa
making playmaker but you're playmaker
did you ever think maybe I could be
both who could defy gravity
[Applause]