To want to ram a basketball down Troys throat

[babyicebean]

and Gabriella's,Sharpey's,Ryan's in fact the whole of the HSM cast's throats.

I am sat here thinking up ways to do horrid things to them as I have had a full weekend of eldest bratski singin various songs from the films and playing the CD's she has of the films.

Have a great title for the next film - High School Musical 4, the slaying.

lissielou, me too

Gabriella is a great female role model though, definitely New-Age-Disney-Feminism, much better than simpering Princesses or Child Hookerz Bratz!

And Ryan is so clearly GAY it makes me howl with laughter each time he takes Kelsey to the Prom!

Ugh....

Sorry... love the new title although it's a bit cruel... can't we just send them all to a desert island somewhere really remote where we cannot hear their banal whimperings and morally simplistic storylines. ( Give me a bit of Brothers' Grimm anyday!)

YABVVVU, who knows when you may have a little nap and Zak may come into your dreams with his super-smooth face and chest.

It could be worse it could be that utter creep, Edward Cullen

I have luckily been able to avoid this shit so far apart from the music. ANd that is bad enough. It is a fucking disgrace - a lot of bolted together 2nd hand hooks that most naff Eurodisco one-hit wonders would reject - music as marketing device, with no merit at all.
ANd anything that is praised for peddling an abstinence message to teens is bound to be worrying, sexist and moronic, so it's not getting any space in our house.

Put them on an ice rink and let me practice hockey drills on them. A swift hip check should send them crashing to the floor in a most pleasant manner. (I don't play hockey, I'd love to though! I just know some skills/drills lol). Please, please?? I'm 19 and I hate hate hate those films!

Put them on an ice rink and let me practice hockey drills on them. A swift hip check should send them crashing to the floor in a most pleasant manner. (I don't play hockey, I'd love to though! I just know some skills/drills lol). Please, please?? I'm 19 and I hate hate hate those films!

Ooops, sorry, Mac had a moment there lol

Just realising something - in any other teen thing about the last year of high school the characters would be studying for and worrying about their SATs (a big serious thing that's important for getting into college, not like UK SATs). There's been no mention of it.

SGB, does it peddle abstinance? They do kiss, but there's just no mention of them "at it" but I'm fairly confident they are banging like bunnies, I would be if I was Gabriella, and I just don't buy the idea that he'd drive 1000 miles to be with someone who just held his hand !

There's no mention of sex either way. Because it's aimed at 8 year olds, for whom even kissing a boy is a bit squicky.

That's how I interpreted it anyway. They may or may not be shagging, it isn't mentioned.

I haven't watched any of it but read an article about how wonderful its abstinence message was (so OK may be misjudging it. THough I still hate it on the grounds of musical awfulness and overhyped merchandising crap no matter what the storylines).
And I do not, of course, think that 8 year olds should be peddled stuff about losing one's cherry in High School. But nor do I think 8 year olds should be being peddled stuff that is all about lurrrve - why not give them stories about having adventures, defeating bank robbers, discovering new continents or whatever?>

Yes Trillan, that's the way I saw it too.

And to be honest, I don't think I could watch a romp scene and not pass out.....

(has anyone else noticed that Troy and Gabriella are the only actual "couple"? you never see Chad and Taylor kiss, yet they go to the prom together and are clearly an item, or Kelsey and Ryan, but that's because Ryan is really more interested in Troy or Chad...)

Nikynork - How can you say that?!? Its okay Edward, dear, don't listen...

I throughly enjoyed Hairspray (Although seeing the show, and getting a hug from Micheal Ball afterwards was WAY better drools) but HSM?? I'll help with the planning, the murder, and the cover-up afterwards...

It's not about luuurve either, not much, it's about cheesy 'be yourself' messages.

Best to just hate it for the crap songs and merchandising SGB, that's more objective, the 'message' will always be subjective, especially if you haven't actually watched them

(I don't suggest you do watch them BTW, unless you like very mild cheese)