High School Musical 3: Senior Year

High School Musical 3 overstays its welcome, stretching out about 20 minutes longer than it needs to, thanks chiefly to a final celebratory reel that simply refuses to end.

A real, honest-to-goodness teen musical throwback, as if Andy Hardy had never died and James Dean had never lived.

Its winning formula is driven not by narrative but by what isn't there: no sex, no drugs, and no rock and roll-- unless you count the logjam of thundering power ballads.

Musical 3 is frustratingly shallow, but what it lacks in narrative ambition, it makes up for in dazzling choreography.

It's a classic case of giving the people what they want.

Everything works out! Everyone's hair looks great! Some of the kids end up at Juilliard! I hope real high school is like this.

High School Musical wouldn’t have ever been what it was without Efron’s wholly committed performance selling every high and low with aplomb—the kind of screen presence that comes around once in a blue moon.

I enjoyed it very much. Probably the best made of the 3 films

It's hard to begrudge a film success when it has such an upbeat attitude and overwhelming respect for all its characters.

Exuberant! Celebratory! Joyous! High school never looked or sounded so good!