But my HUGE problem with 1 and 2, is that is pay (sp) and her brother are so rich, which is proven in hsm2 by the country club being owned by their parents, then why are they attending public school???
Sure, it's Disney, so it's all fantasy anyway, but I thought the same thing about the boarding school. Any kid who buys Prada and Jimmy Choo (and the "Fabulous" number was the best in the show, btw!!) would not be going to public school.
But if they were all so special, their sphere of influence and ambition (the main boy is not plausible as a basketball star, although he has a lot of charisma as a schlocky boy band product) would go beyond someplace called the U of Albuquerque, wouldn't it? Lol.
Add to that the fact that the rest of the kids live in MANSIONS, even the girl with a single mom, and yet they are supposed to be "scrimping and saving" and not able to send their kids to college without scholarships??? Puh-leese!
Another thing that bugs me is that in the first movie Troy and Gabriella didn't even kiss each other! Look, maybe they didn't because it was a "G" movie but hey come on its High School!
Well, they kept trying but kept getting "interrupted," so the kiss at the end was the "climactic" moment (although it had no impact because I was not rooting for them as a couple.) I kept thinking those kids were hormone deficient. And yet I was glad they didn't kiss, as they had absolutely no chemistry together. Who cast that movie?? Bad!! Troy and Sharpay made a way better-looking couple, and Blandy-Mc-Can'tDance (Gabriela, aka MumbleBlah) should have been paired with Ryan.
Why couldn't Gabriela leave the lead roles in the musicals to those who really cared and worked really hard, anyway? I didn't like her from the get-go for stealing leads she didn't deserve. Not a well-thought-out plot for either movie. Her singing wasn't "all that," and she did not have the whole package, so it is like telling kids via the heroine that they are entitled to something they made absolutely no effort to achieve. At least the hero worked on his sport, if not his singing. Bleh.
As for Sharpay, seriously, who names their daughter after a dog and doesn't even spell it right? Nevertheless, Sharpay stole the show. Troy had some talent in each movie, and Ryan got some time in the sun in this one, but Gabriela was a complete washout.
And speaking of sun, too much tanning, people!