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[which_chick]

So, I'm watching High School Musical.



Netflix lets you make a queue. I put it in the queue. No, I have not seen it before. I don't have television at my house and I'm damn sure not the demographic that this is aimed at.

Some thoughts? Sure, I always have thoughts.

First thought: NOBODY gets that far in school without someone finding out that he or she can fucking sing. For realz. Also, these people are polished performers who know how to sing into mics and can read music. Disbelief not really suspended, here.

Also: They are so fucking squeaky clean. I am in awe of Disney's marketing clue for the tween set. Boy lead looks pretty, not aggressively sexual, has that nice Shaun Cassidy look to him. If I were a thirteen year old girl, I'd be all over that. (As a pushing-forty person, I have to say in all honesty that he doesn't do shit for me. These days I go for aggressively sexual. Arrogant doesn't hurt, either.)

Let's have a shout-out for the Impressively ethnic cast, too. Yay. Anyone besides me notice that the two leads get black BFFs? (And how often does *that* happen in real life? Also, why aren't there any movies where the two leads are black and have *white* BFFs?)

Evil blond girl has her own nose, which is always nice. Does anyone besides me find the whole brother-sister musical act scenes way more squirm-inducing than Touga and Nanami? Ick, I say. The only reason she's not fucking him is that they both like cock.

Okay, the fact that this is a self-referential musical ABOUT a musical? i really kind of like that. Against my will, I like it. Plus the tunes are catchy.

All of the choreographed basketball dancing is also nice.

Gabriella has very well-done, subtle, understated makeup in this. She always looks like classy good girl, which I guess is the point of the thing.

"People are thinking that they can do other stuff, stuff that's not their stuff. " *snork* What a tidy encapsulation of the entirety of the high school mindset.

The BFFs are having an intervention. V. funny. I love misguided and painful intervention scenes.

I am not buying the 'bad friends turn around and try to fix what they broke', though. Not buying it.

Hero's best friend ("Chad", I think) is totally fucking hot, btw. Totally. Okay, not an adult at the time of filming, but still totally fucking hot.

Heroine's best friend (Scholastic team person, anyway) has non-Disney-sized boobs. Judging from this film and a slew of Disney Princess Heroines (excluding the Shrek chick b/c she is green and a troll and apparently they're allowed to have tits) Disney only lets girls with petite, pre-teen sized boobs wear strapless stuff. Nerdy girl has to wear a white button down in the end number lest we be tempted from the wholesome message of trying not to pigeonhole the world's unique and beautiful snowflakes by her substantial rack.

And we get two, if I counted correctly, lovely and chaste kisses. YAY!

This is a cute movie. It's carefully designed to appeal to the target market and isn't so horrible that the adults in the house will make the younger set shut the damn thing off. It's wholesome, if unrealistic, and populated with very pretty young people who sing and dance their way to a happy and cheerful conclusion. Could be worse, I guess.

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[cassandramorgan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's not terrible. I actually like the second one better than the first. I kinda consider the first one as the "set-up" for the second. It has more interesting songs (with the exclusion of the "Oh no, I fucked up" song that the lead male sings...I hate that song) and the characters get to kinda be themselves. Also? The fat chick....gets more screen time. I <3 that they didn't just dump her because she's fat. She totally gets to dance and be in the front and all that sorta shit.

So, yeah. If you can stomach another one at some point, take a gander at the second one. There's a third one in the making but I'm not sure when that will come about.