Toon Talk: All for "2"

No one could have foreseen the overwhelming response that a little Disney Channel Original Movie called High School Musical would receive just under two years ago. But of course, you know that; the sleeper hit and all its various and sundry franchise incarnations (on albums, on stage, on ice) have been documented ad nauseam. With all that HSM money flowing into the House of Mouse, the question was not so much if there would be a sequel, but how soon it would come to pass. And so what if it was just cashing in on an already established brand name?

However, instead of resting on their laurels, the makers of High School Musical 2 (on DVD today) actually did something rare, even though they didn’t really have to: they made a sequel that is better then the original. The first HSM may be this generation’s Grease (although this summer’s Hairspray may have something to say about that now), but HSM2 is far from the next Grease 2.

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