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High School Musical 3: Senior Year

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Amid preparations for a basketball championship, prom, and graduation, sweethearts Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) vow to savor every moment, knowing that college plans put the future of their relationship into question. An elaborate spring musical is just the thing for these two Wildcats and the rest of their classmates to express their fears and hopes for the future.
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It won't win many converts, but High School Musical 3 is bright, energetic, and well-crafted.

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Jim Schembri The Age (Australia) 12/10/2008
2.5/5
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. Go to Full Review
Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald 12/08/2008
4/4
A real, honest-to-goodness teen musical throwback, as if Andy Hardy had never died and James Dean had never lived. Go to Full Review
Anthony Lane The New Yorker 10/27/2008
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. Go to Full Review
Mitchell Beaupre Paste Magazine 10/24/2023
6.5/10
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. Go to Full Review
Rachel Wagner Rachel's Reviews (YouTube) 06/13/2022
I enjoyed it very much. Probably the best made of the 3 films Go to Full Review
Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com 09/10/2020
2.5/4.0
It's hard to begrudge a film success when it has such an upbeat attitude and overwhelming respect for all its characters. Go to Full Review
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Scorch T @Scorch9 2h pretty great stuff here again. i do think it kinda goes over similar topics when compared to the other films, however it still tackles them in a really effective way. a really solid conclusion to a great trilogy. solid musical numbers and a pretty good job, for the most part, at ending the stories of these characters. See more Jason B @RT90795834 17h High school musical is three is all about dogs have dogs everywhere on the faces you are very white it’s very funny but they break up so you should watch it cause I agree with you. It’s very funny and yeah so so some people take that to short pay is so nice, but the people think he’s gonna be this character sometimes for break promises and well at high school musical group too but also free so you should definitely watch this movie that I recommended. It’s so funny the dogs on the faces and when everybody sees this, they think it’s so funny because they have dogs on their faces really watched this so yeah yeah you should watch it. I love this movie. You should definitely watch it. I agree with you. OK watch it watch it people watch it. People watch it. See more Stephen C @bob25009 Mar 8 Funny in 1 hour and 52 minutes. See more Jack G @Gump.jack Jan 8 Last but never least, a full-circle ending brimming with HSM spirit See more Alex S @williamhickleberry Dec 30 Troy came out of the TV and stabbed me See more REIKAO4EVER T @RT00756449 Nov 8 they put all their budget on sharpay and ryans cunty scenes but im not complaining. sharpay deserves better, i don't understand why the series tries so hard to convince us that she needs troy. all troy does is play with balls and sing he can't even dance. even midori has better stage presence than troy, AND HE'S NOT EVEN TRYING. i know troy has lovey dovey scenes with gabriella but even after three movies they've failed to sell the authenticity of their relationship and their chemistry. they just shove scenes of them hugging, even more hugging, dancing, and almost-kisses but there's NOTHING holding that relationship together. gabriella's whole personality is that she's troy's girlfriend and he conveniently gets a moment of clarity every time he looks at her. it's like she's just there to support him. i was excited that we might see more of her, maybe of her family, or her home life, but no, TROY POPS UP. IT'S ALL ABOUT TROY AND HIS STUPID BALLS. if UNDEAD were like this... i think we would've disbanded long ago. justice for sharpay. i hope gabriella marries a woman.I HOPE TROY DROPS OUT!! See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Amid preparations for a basketball championship, prom, and graduation, sweethearts Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) vow to savor every moment, knowing that college plans put the future of their relationship into question. An elaborate spring musical is just the thing for these two Wildcats and the rest of their classmates to express their fears and hopes for the future.
Director
Kenny Ortega
Producer
Bill Borden, Barry Rosenbush
Screenwriter
Peter Barsocchini
Distributor
Walt Disney
Production Co
Walt Disney Pictures, Borden and Rosenbush Entertainment
Rating
G
Genre
Kids & Family, Musical, Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 24, 2008, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 1, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA)
$90.6M
Runtime
1h 52m
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