HSM3 Report (with some spoilers)
Posted by
JCVDano (aka dano)
Oct 25 '08, 13:51
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1:25 Show
My Rewards card gave me a free movie ticket voucher.
Only about 30 people in the theater.
Had a soft pretzel and a small Pibb Xtra.
Trailers:
Coraline - teaser, but I like Selick and it looked good.
17 Again - the plots been done over and over but I thought it looked good.
Marley and Me - looked like it could be cute enough, sort of an upscale Beethoven
Paul Blart: Mall Cop - ugh.
Bedtime Stories - should be huge in a Night at the Museum vein.
The movie.
I *love* basketball musical numbers. I almost texted mandy. I liked that they put more oomph into the musical numbers for the movie theater instead of just making another television movie and projecting it. It really felt like it belonged on the big screen, and the musical numbers came off really well. As usual Ryan and Sharpay and underutilized but have a great number early. They really focused on Troy and Gabriella even moreso than in the other two movies. That's a good thing in the case of Troy because there's no doubt about that Zac Efron is a star. His solo is probably the best number in the movie, and I just love his commitment to the role no matter what amount of cheese they ask him to do. He plays it with no irony. Hudgens on the other hand just seems bored most of the time which is a problem because it makes it hard to see what Troy sees in her. And I also found the junk yard number between Troy and Chad amusing. Nothing says we're tough guy-guys like a musical number.
Beyond the musical numbers the plot is rough with part of the problem being that this is the third movie. First there is absolutely no conflict to drive the action for the first 2/3rds of the movie. This isn't some artsy European observational hand-held camera drama. It's a musical for teens and it needs a classic three act arc to drive it from number to number or else it's mostly flat when they aren't singing and dancing. Also since the characters are standard archetypes there's not a whole lot to do with them the third time around so we see them learn the exact same lessons they learned the first two times.
So it's basically pretty fun with an appealing lead cast aside from Hudgens.
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