Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5240 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-09-10
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 94 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical is a combination of backstage action and Grease without the unwholesome habits. Scoring record ratings at the time of its US January 2006 broadcast, it's a smash hit with tween audiences (ages 6 to 10), but appealing for all ages. At a New Year's Eve party, Troy (Zac Efron of the WB's Summerland) has a chance meeting with Gabriella (Vanessa Anne Hudgens) when they share a karaoke song. Lo and behold, when school resumes, they discover that Gabriella has just transferred to Troy's East High School, a campus divided into tight cliques of jocks, cheerleaders, brainiacs, and skater dudes. Eager to recapture the magic they'd discovered during karaoke, Troy and Gabriella consider auditioning for the school's upcoming musical, much to the dismay of the school's frost queen/theatre goddess, Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody). Problem is, Troy is also the star of the basketball team and Gabrielle is being recruited to compete in the Scholastic Decathlon. Will they give up their cliques to start something new, or will they do as the show's first big anthem urges and "Stick to the Status Quo"? Well, this is a Disney movie, so maybe the sacrifices won't be that hard, and even the hints of romance are mild.

This two-disc Remix Edition of High School Musical retains all the bonus features of the original DVD and adds 34 minutes of new features. Following a couple of minutes of red-carpet interviews from the DVD release party, "High School Reunion" (6 min.) gathers the cast for some more interviews, glimpses of their other Disney Channel credits, and appearances on the Teen Choice Awards. The longest feature is the dance-along, in which the cast teaches the choreography for "Get'cha Head in the Game" and "We're All in This Together." At 16 minutes, it allows for move-by-move instruction followed by half- and full-speed run-throughs, though they're facing the camera, so home participants will have to figure out the mirror image or simply ignore the left-right directions and do it backward. And because this is the Remix Edition, there are videos of the remixed versions of "Breaking Free" and "We're All in This Together" as well as a video of "Eres Tu," a Spanish version of "What I've Been Looking For" (the Ryan and Sharpay version) by Mexican band Belanova. Retained from the original DVD are the sing-along subtitles, the making-of featurette, the "Bop to the Top" rehearsal, and the music videos for "We're All in This Together" and "I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You." Not included in this version: the trivia-packed "pop-up edition" that debuted on the Disney Channel on Thanksgiving weekend 2006. So even if the Remix Edition is a little thin for two discs, fans will enjoy the new stuff while they wait for High School Musical 2. --David Horiuchi

Synopsis
Zac Efron and Vanessa Anne Hudgens star in this Disney Channel Original Movie as popular basketball team captain Troy and smart, stunning academic Gabriella. Both shock the members of the social cliques to which they belong when they each decide to audition for the high school's musical. By proving themselves to be brilliant performers, can these two teens lead their peers towards more open-minded thinking and acceptance of one another? High School Musical is a family feature filled with hip music, popular dance moves, and tons of school spirit.

Customer Reviews

Best film to come out of Disney in a long time!
High School Musical is like a modern-day version of Grease, it's a great film with great and catchy songs. Weird that Zac Efron didn't sing his own vocals in the songs but had Drew Seeley sing them for him? Troy is a popular basketball captain of the East High Wildcats and Gabriella the newest person to join the school break all the rules of East High society by each auditioning for the lead roles in the school's musical. As they reach for the stars and follow their dreams, everybody learns about acceptance, teamwork and just being yourself. A warning though that if you already own High School Musical: Encore Edition and think that "Remix Edition" means another version of the first HSM film, then don't purchase it. Buying the first film when you already own it, is a waste of money. Just so you know, Disc 1 is the Encore Edition & Disc 2 has extras & remixed versions of the songs you know and love! Thanks for reading and enjoy the film!

Cool makeover!!!
I am a huge High school musical fan so even though I have the encore edition I had 2 get this DVD and it was worth it. It had loads of special features including their tours around the world. I highly reccomend this 2 disc remix edition of High school musical 2 all HSM fans!

Very Entertaining
I'm writing this review for my 7 year old daughter. She thinks that this film is great. The singing is good, the dancing is good, the acting is good, the story is good - if you are a 7 old year old girl then the whole thing is great.

From a parental point of view you can put this film on and let children watch it. There are no nasty undertones, like there are in Grease (which is mentioned in one of the other reviews), everythng is whiter than white, even the "nasty" characters all turn out good in the end. If you have a daughter then she will probably be singing and dancing to this for years - my son, however, can do without it.