Every week, we round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today’s entry is the soundtrack to High School Musical 2, which we tackled after its leak last week and will probably sell eight bazillion copies by next Monday:
- “Though it fails to introduce kids to the best side of show music — its drama, its striving toward timelessness, its gams-flashing pizazz — “High School Musical 2″ does have one showstopper. ‘I Don’t Dance’ turns a baseball diamond into the audition stage of ‘A Chorus Line,’ as Corbin Bleu and Lucas Grabeel share a boy duet that rides on a handclap beat, DJ Premier-style sampled horns and a chorus almost worthy of Michael Jackson’s moonwalk. For a split second, ‘High School Musical 2′ works real musical-comedy magic. Then it’s back to the Disney template for another singalong.” [LAT]
- “Parents will appreciate the positive messages about staying true to oneself in the couple’s big numbers while secretly relishing Sharpay’s desperate-to-entertain determination. She gets the showiest show tunes, channeling a juvenile Noel Coward in ‘Fabulous’ and visiting a wacked-out enchanted tiki room in ‘Humuhumunukunukua’pua’a’ (a great comic showcase cut from the movie). Puppy love is grand, but for anyone who truly appreciates the let’s-put-on-a-show spirit that HSM embodies, I’m not sure that Sharpay isn’t the real heroine after all.” [EW]
- “Just make sure to turn the CD off before the bonus track, a hugely unpleasant Polynesian pastiche that includes the couplet ‘Tiki, tiki, tiki/Wanna speaky, speaky, speaky.’ ” [NYT]
‘Tiki, tiki, tiki/Wanna speaky, speaky, speaky.’
Gun. Now.
high school musical 2 is gonna put all the other disney movies to shame with their great voices and looks it will be the best movie ever think of how much people watched the first high school musical and then double it!