“High School Musical” was one of 2006’s hit television films, produced by Disney Channel. It was the first Disney Channel Original movie broadcast on BBC. Being a musical, it benefited from an awesome soundtrack, which became the best selling album in the U.S. in 2006. The plot isn’t terribly imaginative, and is rather one among numerous adaptations of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”.
In a nutshell, the main characters – Troy the sensitive jock and Gabriella the beautiful dork meet at a ski lodge and sing together, thus discovering their shared passion for music. When the school year begins, Gabriella and her mother move to the same town and at the same school as Troy. They both want to take part in their high school musical, and their unity divides the school.
Their cliques – the “jocks” and the “dorks” – rivals from times immemorial, finally end up burying the hatchet at the end of the movie. The movie is yet another moral story about appearances, cliques, true love and teenagers. There’s nothing excitingly new except that it’s a musical – and according to viewers, quite a successful one – so much so, that “High School Musical 2” was released in 2007, “High School Musical 3” will hit the silver screen this month and there’s talk about a fourth installment of the popular movie.

“High School Musical 3” is anticipated with much excitement, but also with high expectations. The movie will focus on the senior year of the teenagers from the previous movies, and it’s trying to bring the musical genre back into the younger audience’s preferences. One of its underlying purposes is to make boys dancing seem ordinary and perhaps “cool” – and not only in the United States, but worldwide. The movie gives people the sense of belonging and the desire to belong to a world like that portrayed in “High School Musical”. It’s an island of optimism and positivism in a sea of disappointment and separation.