The Reel Rejects - HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR (2008) MOVIE REVIEW!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:15 He said, that's your sexy. I didn't even need to look at him. I just could feel how disappointed he was. It's too bad, but that's what it is. That's why we're homies. I think, how are you doing today? Should I ask? I think let's just watch the final one. Wow, I'm really jealous of them all. Yeah. This was the best, so much fun and so expensive. Expensive. Woo!

Starting point is 00:01:50 I felt the money and the joy. The joy and the money. The money and the joy. Also, I feel like they made this movie to be, like, did people not see one and two because they were smaller movies? So we're going to add in a little bit of juice from one and two into three. So in case anybody's

Starting point is 00:02:08 catching it to be like, I've never seen high school musical before, they'll get all the juice here. And I appreciate it. It wasn't too over expositioning. And every number was epic. Like, the gaffing, I love the lighting in this. And the, you could tell in the wide shots how many more extras and big sets they had. And it was so

Starting point is 00:02:27 colorful. Oh my God, when the car starts moving, He starts, like, talking with the lights and the whole thing. Everything, I, there's not even, there's too much for me to, like, honestly talk about all of the numbers in this. But I appreciated it from beginning to end, never bored. That was surprisingly more mature. Yes. You know? It's about growing up.

Starting point is 00:02:53 I think these all have been about growing up. He needs to do some. I know. I feel like I can learn a lot about this movie. Growing up from the high school musical franchise, man. Great. The main thing I noticed, see, in the other two movies, whenever a lot of the scenes when there wasn't a musical number happening, they kind of play a little bit of quirky music or like Disney music going on in the background. Yes.

Starting point is 00:03:20 And I noticed a lot of the scenes wouldn't even really have music. So they're kind of surprised you with like a musical number. Right. Because this is more gravitas. This is the theatrical experience. Song to silence, silence to song. And I really, we're just waiting to see if there's a post credits. No, there's that, okay.

Starting point is 00:03:41 I really did enjoy this one a lot. I was surprised by how there was that melancholic undertone throughout it. That I feel like if you didn't watch the first two, assuming there, I would imagine there were audiences, especially parents who were probably like forced to like take their kids. They all had seen. They're like, oh, shit, I got to take my kid to go watch this in the theaters. Totally. That I think for us who just watched the other two, we'll appreciate more of the growth this takes.

Starting point is 00:04:14 Yeah. You know, that as compared to what the other ones did. Yeah. Because we see the evolution of performance, choreography, and then production design, art design, camera work. all around because, yeah, they, they threw down on the numbers. Absolutely. I need time to think before deciding whether or not this is my favorite of the three. But the music numbers for sure.

Starting point is 00:04:45 Hands down, this is my favorite music. I mean, it's really hard to top bet on it for me. Oh, yeah. The solo one on the golf course. Yeah, I know. And it jumps up and it's just all of a sudden to him. Oh, that one was great. That was like the perfect embodiment of what I love about high school musical.

Starting point is 00:05:02 Yeah. Because I think if you, here's the unique thing about this film to me. Yeah. Is that the first two have like a cheesiness to them that I really love. And I think if you don't really know the first two, you'll watch this and go, it's really cheesy. But for us, we're like, no, we're taking this one more serious. It's just a little more grown-up right here. This has got some adult juice in it.

Starting point is 00:05:30 Yeah, exactly. And I don't really think about the cheese. Right. No. No, it's there, but it's not as prevalent. Oh, my God. The songs, like, were so much more sad. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:05:41 Yeah, and I kind of love that. I mean, the cheese is there. It's just not as strong. Yeah. It's not as effervescent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, no, I really, I really enjoyed the hell out of all three of these. And I really enjoyed this one.

Starting point is 00:05:54 And I was watching this going, wow, this would be cool in the theaters. As a fan, you would be like, wow, this would be a cool theater experience. Yes, like the shots in it, the cinematography, I mean, everything was just way more on a scale, huge. I also think that in their brains, they had to be prepping for a, is a high school musical a musical? I need to, I don't know. They had to be prepping for a Broadway show. The way that they set this and the way that that stage was, it all goes, Once this movie comes out, we're going to prove that we can absolutely make this a play on stage, a musical.

Starting point is 00:06:31 Everyone's going to love it and it'll be live. They already did it. I mean, those sets were so epic and so Broadway, the way that it was choreographed and the sets coming in and out. I mean, it was just, it was perfect that I'm like a great job in making this movie and also going like, oh, the musical's ready, obviously when you watch this. 100%. Leave it in the comment. I mean, I'll probably look it up, but leave it in the comments. If high school musical, it has to be had to have gone on to Broadway after this.

Starting point is 00:07:01 Yeah, see the first movie and the second one, like you see like rehearsal number. You see like them rehearsing songs for the musicals and stuff. This was the first movie where you're really getting a sense of the production of the musical. Yeah. And they even ended, like the finale is even them doing songs that we saw throughout the movie, but you're really feeling the stage and the performance. of it. So I kind of like how they weirdly pulled the curtain back a little bit more on this to let

Starting point is 00:07:30 you know we're watching a musical. And then at times, I do think the transitions here were the funniest from out of the other movies. I don't recall them doing it like that or like they would just be talking. Then they just suddenly have a song and then they just continue the conversation. I was like, this is so strange how they're doing it here. the boys are back so what do you think about going to do you're just like wait a minute there's there's something that's like totally in conflict here in the other ones they did it where they would like they would ramp up the music and then we would feel it coming and this one it was like it was a harsher turn I think it was a harsher turn and then when they would go back to the scene it sometimes okay you know what it was we would get cuts in the other ones and the scenes yeah okay Yeah, yeah, yeah, because you would either cut two after.

Starting point is 00:08:23 After the song. They wouldn't just, like, immediately continue. No. Or they would treat the musical numbers like that was the dialogue. Like, that was the scene. Right. And, but sometimes, like, that's, I think that boys are back. A song is a great example of what you pulled because it's like that it's like they didn't

Starting point is 00:08:39 even have the conversation of the boys are back. They just had a musical number. They just had it. So what are you doing about you? Yeah. So I think that was the one thing that was kind of off about the movie. But it always made me laugh when they did it Because it was just so like weird

Starting point is 00:08:53 Oh yeah And that's what I was saying It went from song to silence to song It would be like song Silence, silence No underlying music And write to dialogue Yeah it was funny

Starting point is 00:09:05 Except for the basketball song I just what do you call it when you glee When you talk and spit comes out That just happened Gross Greg talks Oh Okay well anyway

Starting point is 00:09:15 The first song You mean the basketball song The basketball song Is where they added in the dialogue end the song together. That one I really like. They even added in a timeout, a silence for them to come together and talk. And then the song was still going, which I thought was really, really great.

Starting point is 00:09:31 That was a great song. Yeah, a great move. Like that they added in. It's a good, like, pump me up song. Oh, yeah, yeah. Even the musical, the songs here just are the way they're even composed themselves feel like more orchestral or something. I don't know the right terminology, but they feel like there's more people involved in

Starting point is 00:09:49 All those strings, and we got to see in a whole orchestra, and you can actually feel it in the soundtrack versus the other ones felt a lot smaller. They really did feel sort of like a cassette is not really, but like a little bit of the vibe was like there's maybe a cassette or a CD playing in the background and they're singing versus this one was like, we're ready for the stage. Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of variety too in the song choices. Like there's genre variety. Yes, which I loved.

Starting point is 00:10:20 Yeah, there's a lot of that. Yeah. It was more distinctly genre, you know. Yeah. And I did love the music. I think my favorite one for me must be, I think it is the boys are back is my favorite music number. It's the least to do with the story.

Starting point is 00:10:36 Yeah. But I really loved that. It was so great. In the cars, when the car starts, maybe give me like the grease vibes when they're in that like. A little bit like old school 80s Michael Jackson vibes too. Totally. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:47 Yeah. I mean, that was so fun. love sad songs so you know sign me up for when it got like jazzy and a little bit slow that's why i kept saying like oh my gosh this is my favorite and that's what would make this one be my favorite movie because i felt the most like excited when i would hear those chords and it's sort of a uh the undertone of it wasn't just super high and upbeat it had this soul to it which i love and i'm very very much drawn to And it wasn't all like, oh my God, I just, I had almost forgotten when he has that, when he's kind of sad, and I knew it was going to be a sad song, when he changed his clothes, he walks into the, into the gym alone. And then it changes the beat and the basketball start falling.

Starting point is 00:11:31 I love that. That was a great song. Totally changed the genre and the beat and then it was upbeat and that was great. Yeah, that was like a rock opera. Epic. Solo rock opera. I really loved how they, I mean, Zach Efron killed it as usual. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:46 I think giving Corbyn Blue the amount of time they gave him Chad was excellent. I love that he got a duet number with Zach Ephron as well. Yeah. Vanessa Hudgens, especially like we had our opinions about how Gabriela was used in part two. And I really love that they utilized her a lot here. And I even love how the story acknowledged her significance at East High. Yes. Because it's so much like just Troy Bolton story.

Starting point is 00:12:13 Yeah. And I love how they not just who she. she is for Troy, but who she is for East High. I like how they brought that back around. I found myself halfway through this movie wondering, because I think like with those first two movies that they, what they do so well is they, they weird,

Starting point is 00:12:32 they have like a sense of stakes that are not like the most obvious stakes, but they have stakes to them, you know? And to here, I didn't really feel like there were stakes. And then it was halfway through where I started to realize that, well, Like, you know, getting you riled up on stakes or like, what's going to happen? It was more about the reflection of the choice that they would have to make in terms of growing up.

Starting point is 00:12:57 It was about that sadness that sort of permeating here. So it's going to have a different vibe to it. And I really like that maturity a lot. Like it's, I don't know which one. I don't want to really rank them right now. I know if people always want you to rank shit right now, but I don't really want to rank. You don't have to rank it. I also feel like.

Starting point is 00:13:15 Yeah, I love. though. I did love it. I love this whole thing. I love the all though. I think they're all great. Also it's like this movie gave you in the reflection and the growth, it makes everyone feel like you're back in high school. That is the drama and the trauma that you actually legitimately go through when you are a senior. Especially if you've fallen in love with someone, you've been dating them. You're not always going to choose the same college. You have different dreams. You're going to have to make a choice. Sure. If you can go to college in the same state, cool. But if, like, if you want to get out of there, we're dealing with real, very realistic things that happen to high school students everywhere. And that's where I think the real stakes were is that when high school students are actually watching this, they're going to go, I'm going through the same thing because I know I was, the drama between like, well, I'm going to go to performing art school. And, like, I was also in love with someone at the time who was going to go to, like, Indiana. And I was like, I can't go to Indiana. Like, you know, you have to like, you have to make the choice.

Starting point is 00:14:17 So I really appreciated that they brought that in here with this. And you could, you could really feel it like it kind of pulled at the heartstrings. We even felt it even at the beginning. With the undertone, we knew, like, maybe it wasn't going to work out. I agree with you. The stakes didn't feel as soap opera-y as the one and two. They just felt more, there was just more of an undertone. And I think it was made up for with the epicness of the production value that they

Starting point is 00:14:43 they're giving us. They're like, we don't even need it. Look at these numbers. In a way, kind of. It's like the musical, it's weird because like they're so, the music, musical is so much bigger. But it really, I mean, it's important. It's more, I think it's more important to like, you know, Sharpay, Ryan, I forget her name of the mother, the girl who writes all the songs. Yeah, I know. It's really important to them. But for like Troy and Gabriella, the musical's not super important to their journey. Right, you're right. They're even like so fucking late to the damn show.

Starting point is 00:15:18 Yeah, they're like, yeah, we'll just be late. Yeah. True. And I think that's where the stakes are missing in terms of how they tie into the musical. Right. They just kind of show up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like they know the importance of the fun and the bonding and stuff.

Starting point is 00:15:34 But, you know, like that first movie does it so well. Like they got to get to the show. Yeah, I agree. And then even the second one, like the meaning of. it and what it represents there. But I think, though, yeah, I completely echo everything that you said about the significance of that. I can imagine, too, for the audience that actually tends to, not people like us, but the audience

Starting point is 00:15:55 tends to, you know, like the young kids who are like either junior high or high schoolers even who watch it and then, you know, seeing themselves and kind of having to make these hard choices. Like one of my all-time favorite movies is, have you seen American graffiti? It's, it was like, is, I think I've, listen, I don't know, I do know that I have, I do know that American graffiti maybe is the one where there's roses on the bed. No, that's a different movie. I don't think I've seen American graffiti. American graffiti is a jukebox musical. It was the movie George Lucas did before Star Wars. It has like Ron Howard and Richard Drapis. It takes, oh my God, I have to watch it.

Starting point is 00:16:41 It takes place in like one night and I believe in the 50s or 60s. And it's like these guys who all graduated high school and sort of last night together. And it all takes place in like one day until leading into the morning. Cool. And it's there is like it's fun, but it's melancholic. And it is about trying to figure out your future and what choices you want to make. Do I want to go to college? All these things.

Starting point is 00:17:01 Yeah. Saying goodbye to my first love. So there was a lot of those vibes from American graffiti that I thought they implemented here as well. and so I really I really did this really did sing to me it spoke to me and I like how the last number

Starting point is 00:17:16 was a high school musical titled You do like or you don't like The graduation song I was like I agree I haven't had one I just called it high school

Starting point is 00:17:24 musical Yeah it's great It's a great It's a great like perfect finale song to wrap up the The whole thing Like the whole thing I also really like

Starting point is 00:17:33 That they brought Vanessa Hudgens's like Education or intelligence Back to the picture Yeah Because we said that And two, we were really missing that. And we needed to be reminded like, hey, remember y'all, she's a genius.

Starting point is 00:17:45 And I'm really glad that they brought that back. And I was very glad when she sat on the phone, I'm tired of, I think I need to actually just say goodbye and stay here. Because then she did what I wanted, which was like, choose yourself first and what you think is really right for you. And we all knew she wanted to go to Stanford. I mean, she was a mathlet, y'all. and that was the right choice for her and now in the end it all worked out

Starting point is 00:18:12 of him going to Berkeley and I love that that she didn't we didn't want either of them to give up on their dreams to be with each other because I think at such a young age you never want to go there

Starting point is 00:18:22 you cannot go there I think you've got to go we can maybe keep the love but I think you got to go after the dream because the dream for your age is more important than like the love right now

Starting point is 00:18:34 and I'm glad that they get to keep both but I think at such a young age between 18 to like 20s, I think if you're chasing after that dream, that's the time that you are able to figure that out of where like your heart really lies in regards to what you want to do so that you are hopefully living a life that you love, so you love it a little bit more. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:18:55 That's also, I think one of the other things that they were touching on too is that, you know, you can also take charge of your future in a way where it doesn't have to be all made at once, you know, like, oh, it's now we're never right now all the time. And I think that's the feeling that we often have, but you can also, you can also change what you thought prior of what you wanted. And I like how they encourage that. Yeah. It's kind of a unique thing to encourage. I know, right?

Starting point is 00:19:25 And Troy specifically showed that with going like, I can do both. Like, Berkeley lets me do both of those things, which means it says to kids, like, you do have. have a choice. You just have to search for what, what the, like, the puzzle pieces and which ones fit together the best for you and your masterpiece. Yeah. Well, I loved it. It's 12 out of 15 out of 9. 15 out of 9 here. Yep. Fun times. Listen, guys, share this. I would, I would, I would watch the show, but I think it's old and I don't think we do that on here, but like, I love this and it was so much fun and I maybe maybe share it like it comment tells how cool we are as usual we love you guys so much love you guys and we will see you on the next one thank you for being with us

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The Reel Rejects - HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR (2008) MOVIE REVIEW!!!

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