High School Musical 2 (Extended Edition)

I'm a 21 year old male, but I have come to really like HSM. All of them. I'm sick of the crap on tv that's all about sex, sex, sex, and the HSM franchise has kept out of that. It's lovably cheesy, actually has character, very funny, and, what I love most, it's innocent.

Not as good as the original, but the girl I gave it to loves it!

HSM2 features the kids on summer vacation before senior year. It's fun but not as good as HSM and HSM3.

When I recived the product I did nt realize it was blu-ray (My fault) Seller was very helpful and I was able to return for a refund.

I bought this movie for my grand-daughter but the whole family enjoyed it. Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens made this movie just like they did in the 1st one. Their romance is very touching. The music and dancing is fantastic. All the actors and actresses played great roles.

Strip away the excess padding of the film's hefty 111 minute running-time and some of the more overblown musical numbers and you just might enjoy this as much as the first "High School Musical", but then you've missed the whole point. Director/choreographer Kenny Ortega really goes to town with HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2, the sequel to the surprise smash-hit Disney Channel movie, set during the gang's summer vacation.

When Troy (Zac Efron), Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) and their friends all land summer jobs at the ritzy Lava Springs resort owned by Sharpay and Ryan's parents, they simply can't believe their luck - and there's even going to be an end-of-summer talent competition! But when Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) starts manipulating Troy for her own amusement, will he choose a college scholarship over Gabriella and his friends?

The plot is as predictable as the first movie, but these "High School Musical" films need to be enjoyed on another level entirely. Kenny Ortega has furnished the movie with tonnes of electric dance routines and the cast gives their absolute all. Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens make sweet music in the leads but the spotlight always ends up roaming to Ashley Tisdale and Lucas Grabeel as the duplicitous twins Sharpay and Ryan--they really get to shine in this film.

Recommended.

High School Musical 2, well, just might be the worst of them all. This one REEKS of phony high school drama (not to say the first one did not) as it's one of the most annoying films to ever be caught on camera. And while this movie came out two years ago, bad _____ such as this deserves to be bashed. If these films ever become cult classics in the near future (hey, cults can be stupid), I'll make sure I watch the cult drink the kool-aid.

This time around, the plot deals with the most annoying plot line I've ever heard. It goes along the lines about a spoiled annoying girl wanting to steal someone's boyfriend. To do this, she must hire him, but she doesn't want his friends there. So she whines. Seriously, who gives a ____? Anyone, anywhere? Good god, what a bunch of _____.

Besides that, there's nothing much else worth yacking about, considering that the competition . Tone-deaf compositions skills, bad acting, lousy (though the country club itself is very cool and I wouldn't mind visiting it myself) film-making, blah blah blah. High school musical 2 is yet another failure, and I hope the disney channel stops making this ______.

F

I bought this to be able to see all 3 in sequence and follow the story line of musicals. Each movie can stand alone but the sequence of events will be omitted. Supposed time lapse occurs by seeing all 3. No. 1 and No. 2 are about a B value whereas No. 3 is A in my opinion. I enjoyed all 3 and have a very young granddaughter that will watch any of them. She loves to dance and sing with "The Boys Are Back" and "Gotta Get It Together".

I was very impressed with this order. I received the movie in a timely matter and it was in great condition.

great movie, was the first hsm i watched, after watching this i just had to see the others. Love the songs they came up with for the movies.

just a fun movie to watch and sing along to with family

WHAT! AGAIN! YOU MEAN THERE'S A SEQUEL! Well of course there is. Everyone knows that Disney's gonna milk this for all its worth as long as uncultured kids and their parents (cause they're the ones with the money) will buy into it. So what can I say that I haven't already said about the first? Well this superfluous sequel is obviously a rehash of the first only set at the end of the school year and at a country club. There's just too much similarity between the basketball song and dance of the first and the baseball song and dance of this one. And like someone else said, when were dance and baseball the same? I don't care if Gene Kelly incorporated sports moves in his choreography, in the big scheme of things, they don't mix (and for not being able to dance, the "ethnic" jock sure can dance [if that's what you want to call it]). And now that I've moved on to the songs; well, what can I say but UTTER RUBISH! Again they are uncatchy and really make no sense in the sequence of things other than to shoehorn in another (badly performed) song and (poorly choreographed) dance. The big brassy opener is a poor attempt to "get back in" to the picture. The one performed by the rich girl and her brother could've been explained in actual dialogue. And the spontaneity of when they actually do sing seems robotic. Did any of these "actors" have the balls (dance numbers aside) to perform live? The overacting (and the horrible choreography) on Efron's part during his, I guess you would call it a lament (when he dances idoitically around the golf course), makes it seem like he's a raving lunatic (and people said Meryl Streep overacted and looked ridiculous when she was singing The Winner Takes It All). And while I'm on the Mamma Mia! note; Pierce Brosnan couldn't sing? Are you joking? Has anybody heard these tone deaf peons? The only reason they sound good is through the magic of editing. If you watch the making of features of Mamma Mia and see some of Brosnan's recordings, he actually does sound as he does on the film/soundtrack. People may not think I'm being fair because I like Brosnan, Streep and Mamma Mia altogether but I know good acting and singing when I see it and HSM (1, 2 or3) definately, not in a million years or til the end of days, is it. At least when he sang, he did it with emotion. And I'm gonna stop there for the songs because they're the sung the same and over acted. Again, character development would be welcome but the two main leads stay the same (they break up about mid-way but get back together anyway), the white jock's sidekick remains the same and the mean girl remains, well, mean, rude and obnoxious (except at the end to sing the big finale number but only to return to her nasty ways in the third film). And the acting! This just has Oscar worthy written all over it! Every time Efron looks he's mad or is supposed to emote any feeling for that matter, he looks like he's about to break down and cry (even after "yelling" at his best friend). And let's not forget the un-memorable cameo by Miley "gonna ruin three time Grammy award-winning group Radiohead because they didn't wanna meet me" Cyrus by the pool. It's a shame that this is the same company that gave us "Dumbo" (Walt's favorite, might I add), "Sleeping Beauty" and so many other countless classics. Disney would be ashamed of what his dream has become! I know he definately would've kicked the one girl out after those pictures "leaked" onto the Internet (same thing goes for Cyrus). He wouldn't have them ruining the image that he worked so hard to achieve (I know there was that business with Annette Funicello being in a bikini but she had moved on from the corporation by then).

Though most film sequels fail to live up to the originality of their predecessor, High School Musical 2 is the rare film able to actually eclipse its first effort.

This time, the plot sees the East High crew all land jobs at a fancy country club (owned by Sharpay Evans' rich father). While trying to manage work and summer funtime activities, Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) sees his relationship with Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) fray to perhaps the breaking point, while of course Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) seems to be the schemer behind everything.

Another simple plot, to be sure, but what really establishes this film as a notch above the first one is the much more imaginative song and dance numbers. "I Don't Dance", featuring the entertaining talents of Corbin Bleu and Lucas Grabeel, will strike a chord with sports fans, while both numbers featuring Tisdale's Sharpay ("Humu Humu" and the upbeat "You Are The Music In Me") will leave you feeling as if you are at a Broadway or Branson stage show production.

Though hesitant to subordinate any of HSM 2's cast members, as they all bring something different to the table, I think that Tisdale possesses the most raw singing/dancing/acting talent, and thus a prolonged focus on her character does this film good. Her songs are always the most show-stopping of any HSM movie, and her completely over-the-top portrayal of Sharpay is a riot!

So never fear fans of the original HSM...this second effort will keep you singing and dancing long after the TV is turned off. Plus, though I highly recommend viewing the first film, newcomers to the series do not need to see "part one" in order to fully appreciate "part two".

I have not watched the dvd yet, but it was received in a very quick manner and was in original packaging. Thank you.

A really good continuation of the franchise. The only problems come when the music kicks in and the audio is obviously studio created. Fabulous is a great example of this horrible editing.

Other than that it's good, clean fun.

Hi, it's a wonderful movie, so exciting specially to the childrens, good performances by zac and vanessa.

My niece was so surprised when she opened this! She gets alot of enjoyment from it and I'm glad I got it for her.

My wife and I purchased the "High School Musical 2 - Extended Edition" for my niece. Her sister and her now both watch it together dancing and singing together. It is a trip! Good fun, clean, movie for the girls to watch.

my sister was happy to get this dvd for her up and coming birthday since she is a fan of high school musical.i liked the fact that i could get her something for her birthday and it didnt cost me how the stores charge when it first comes out.i am glad i waited.

This movie was good. Although I must admit, like many sequels, it was not as good as the first. More things are unrealistic in this second movie. However it is still a sweet, fun, clean, entertaining movie. For best results, you really need to watch the first one first!

This movie hasn't left the player since it arrived. My daughter is obssessed, and, unfortunateley, I find these songs stuck in my head all day and night. Beware Disney's mind control!

This series of musicals just exceed my expectation. I thought they'll be lame, but they are excellent! Great music and choreography, strongly recommanded.

I loved this movie IT was fun and the dancing was great. I love vanessa and zac as a pair . and there acting is really good. I love sharpay as ashley and It shows a diff. side 2 ashley . I hope 2 see many musicals 2 come after 3rd 1 how bout collge musical any1.

I enjoyed this movie very much. It reminds me of a modern day grease. I loved all the music.

A good family/girl DVD - fun to watch, good extras. A must have for pre-teen to young teen girls...

I managed to catch 30 minutes of this on TV, and I dunno why I even did, the first one stunk so much. The acting is even worse, the singing is twice as bad (although Zac sounded pretty good, but that's not saying much). The "plot" (can you even call it that) sucked as well. See the thing is, while I managed to endure the first one suffocating me, I couldn't stand this one for even 30 minutes. This is even worse than the first one. I think I've said enough. I think I'm gonna end this GG Allin style...

Dear Amazon,I bought this movie specifically for my Grandaughters because they liked the first one so much they weren't disappointed at all and they love to sing and dance with the movie.Thank you C. Cornett

It's summer vacation and the gang from East High is headed out to the local country club, either as members or as employees. Sweethearts Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) are hard at work but still have plenty of time for near-smooches. Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale), the club owners' daughter, has her eye on Troy, too, and is wooing him with a possible college scholarship.

This is one fun musical. All the high school stereotypes are here - the jocks, the brainiacs, the snobs, singing and dancing their way into our hearts. There's a big musical number about every five minutes and the productions are energetic and fun. Clearly aimed at the pre-teen audience, this movie is full of young, good-looking actors who make being seventeen look like the Most. Fun. Ever. Efron and Hudgens are an adorable and wholesome couple while Tisdale is the teen witch you love to hate.

The desert setting is beautiful and the movie oozes happiness while stressing the value of friendship. Disney brings the old Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney-type teenage musical to the current generation in fine style.

This has been played over and over and over. The kids love this soooo much.

After watching High School Musical 2 on the Disney Channel, my kids wanted to see it again and again. I liked the character of the movie, it is refreshing to see a kid/teen oriented movie that doesn't promote illicit activities and unsavory lifestyles.

Kudos to Disney for remembering that kids need good, wholesome entertainment in this day and time and the music is great, too!

If you are looking to buy a teen/kid friendly movie this is the one to buy. It fun to watch and great for the whole family.

Parents: on the surface, HSM 2 impersonates a virtuous, family-friendly vehicle which spares your children from unhealthy influences and suggestions (promiscuous/premarital/swinging sex, drugs, gangs, alcohol, violence), but after fair and balanced analysis, it ONLY LOOKS that way. Beneath its surface of bubble-gum "innocence" and triviality lies a hotbed of SIN (both mortal, venial) that the malevolent liberals who monopolize the entertainment world are hiding from you in plain sight, but still selling to your kids. No fear, however!!!! I've done all the grueling, analytical work, in place of lazy and careless parents who don't give a damn, to outline precisely all the SINS in HSM 2 so you parents can shield your kids from this hostile influence.

Under the fiendish guise of promoting to teens activities that are healthy and the opposite of the destructive influences usually peddled on teens from our liberal media and pop culture, HSM 2 endorses dancing!!!! It's not just dancing...it's the even more effeminate mischief of Broadway-style musical numbers and the uncontrollable urge to break out in show tunes at horridly timed places all over the movie. Because of this severely emasculating element, HSM 2 runs the risk of potentially turning some formerly male, teen viewers into you-know-whats.

Mark my words: HSM 2 and movies like it are really a clandestine, feminist plan to emasculate what little "maleness" our modern society still has left!!!! For goodness sake, if you don't know, Zac Efron (Troy) even unabashedly wears makeup in real life--just look at his bizarre, coifed appearance at premieres. Intellectually honest people will readily admit that America in the 21st century is already on its way to being turned into a limp-wristed society due to all the women who "whip" their men. Well, HSM 2 takes that feminist ideology and targets it to impressionable, male teens. Where male teens ought to have their masculinity encouraged by developing their leadership, athleticism and self-reliance, HSM 2 schemes to take this away from them, especially with all the Zac Efron singing and dancing.

A misdirected fantasy among some parents is HSM 2 encourages kids to develop their talents and "be themselves" (even if that "self" is rather effeminate!). However, look more analytically and you'll find HSM 2 actually promotes nothing but materialism and superficial attractiveness which are bane for a society, because one should ideally judge people by their character, not how they look or how great their clothes are.

As such, HSM 2 is a catastrophic, ethical abuser in that its young "stars" are marketed in the roles of their characters as perfectly groomed; into the latest, trendy fashions; and more attractive than you'll find in run-of-the-mill high schools all over the US (trust me, I check out teens in high schools always). The Corbin Blue and Efron characters dress like little, perfect models straight out of the Abercrombie and Finch catalogues (oops, my bad: Corbin Blue would be excluded since he's not white!)!!!! The worst offending characters as it concerns proselytizing kids with messages about materialism are Sharpay and Ryan. They snidely prance around in their Juicy Couture and Ralph Loren Polo, respectively, which makes kids of lesser socio-economic backgrounds feel worthless. Hasn't Disney yet learned that they should shield teens from the harsh reality of unequal income backgrounds and instead feed them unrealistic propaganda to make sure their feelings are spared??!!

Perhaps, just perhaps...the most affronting contravention is the shocking amount of F-L-E-S-H that HSM 2's nubile and supple, teen actors expose and brandish as they skimpily bound around the screen in mock perkiness, which sees their corresponding body parts bouncing along. For an allegedly wholesome movie, HSM 2 showcases many young, coming-of-age girls who wear bathing suits and sleeveless/strapless outfits!!!! Parents, it gets much worse as some of these same, nubile girls who are hopefully still virgins in real life show cleavage--and this movie's targeted to tweens!!!! WTF?!?!

Yet another area of discomfort relates to Troy and Gabriella's rebelliousness throughout the film! Is Disney plotting to glorify teen disobedience of rules and authority, or what? I'm talking about Troy and Gabriella breaking country club rules by going skinny dipping in the pool at night, though they well know staff members are prohibited from such mischief! I'm also talking about the same, two characters picnicking on the golf course when they know trouble awaits them if discovered!!!!

In closing, I just must express my distaste at the real-life, personal turmoil that one of the most horrid examples to young kids and people in general exhibits. I'm, clearly, pointing my righteous finger at Vanessa Hudgens who earlier this year was divulged as a sexual miscreant for salaciously posing nude in pictures which got leaked onto the internet!!!! Parents, this is the vulgar fetishist whom you are allowing to "entertain" your kids!!!! For my part, I'm boycotting Disney until they fire Hudgens for being a fallen "role model" to kids everywhere; in fact, I'm not letting ANY KIDS (even other people's) see HSM 2 out of protest.

This movie is great for kids of all ages. My children (four and two) absolutely love this movie and it is really okay for them to watch. There are no sexual innuendoes, inappropriate language, or violence- just energetic music and dancing with a nice story line. It is what Disney is supposed to be. Love it!

EXCELLENT MOVIE!!! HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!! ZAC EFRON AND VANESSA HUDGENS BOTH PLAY AMAZING ROLES IN THIS MOVIE!! AAAAA+++++++++

High School Musical 2 (Extended Edition)well pleased with this item would recomend to any one looking to keep thear doughters happy for 2hours.anthony

High School Musical 2 (Extended Edition)

I purchased this for an 11 year old that just loves it. She liked High School Musical (original one) and I figured she would like this. Like most teens she loves music and found this to be very entertaining. She plays it over and over again.

I highly recommend it. It is a musical you can trust.

This movie is great! As always, AMAZON provided unbeatable service, quality, prices, communication. Only place I order movies from! AMAZON ROCKS!

How often can that be said about any movie? HSM truly deserves to be a sign of my daughter's times. Great music and dancing, adequate storyline, and memorable characters.

I really, really, really, liked "High School Musical 2." Heck, I loved it! With so much cynical material out there featuring self-destructive, anti-social, youth-deprived teens on the screen, it is so nice to see our future generation enjoying the simple (and complicated) joys of once-in-a-lifetime youth: summer break, first jobs, puppy love, peer bonding, peer pressure, and the wonderful theme of 'to thine own self be true.'

The gang all get jobs at a fabulous desert country club owned by Sharpay's parents, masterminded by Sharpay (deliciously, naughty, ditsy Ashley Tisdale) who bumbly tries to snatch heart-throb Troy (terrifically likable teen idol Zac Efron) from the sensible and raven-haired lifeguard beauty Gabriella (the stunning and lovable Vanessa Anne Hudgens).

It's all your standard boy-meets-girl-boy-looses-girl-and-soul-boy-gains- girl-and-soul fare, but it is so adorably infectious that you are either laughing or smiling or dancing in the aisle, or all three at the same time throughout.

Other standout performance in a show where even the extras are standouts are Corbin Bleu as Chad, Troy's curly-headed ace boon and voice of reason and conscious, and the transformative Lucas Gabreel, Sharpay's nerdy brother Ryan who turns into a total triumph.

The dancing is stunning, the colors are vibrant, the meassages are clear and simple, the songs are terrific and terrifically performed.

A special note should be given to Zac Efron's introspective, inner-turmoil performnace of "Bet On It." It's nearly as visually and vocally as good as anything from Michael Jackson's "Thriller."

Now, none of this happens by itself, so let me take my hat off to a true master, director and choreogrpaher Tony Ortega. Great job, Mr. Ortega. Can't wait till High School Musical 3!Looker: A Novel

My niece said it was a good movie. But she also said it was not as good as the first one.

My granddaughters saw this on TV and learned all the music and words to the musical. I had to get it for them. They watch it all the time. It's nice clean fun!

My 3 year old and 8 year old daughters love this movie, when they got it for Christmas they watched every day up until about the beginning of Feb when the new Bratz movie came out. They love the extra features.

More of the singing and dancing and very very pretty children. They went ahead and gave the kids more of what they wanted cant go wrong with that.

i seen this on tv and i loved it i had to buy i liked all who were in the movie and i liked the first one too

Let's see - I sat through Grease in the theater 5 times with my daughter and I guess Zac Efron has eyes to match John Travolta. All of my grandchildren love this video, not just the oldest granddaughter - the songs are sweet and it's so great to see a musical that kids love. So glad to know schools are performing these. And keep them G-rated please Disney. These are watched by 2 year olds on up in my family.

This DVD has fun special features on it. You get to watch them rehearse quite a few of the songs. It also allows you to use the sing a long version if you so choose.

Will really recommend this family kids movie, besides the nice story, the actors and the bluray sharpness is a great movie to watch. if your kids are into HSM they sure will love it. I know my 3 girls do. :-)

High School Musical. The franchise that kids and adults, can't seem to get enough of finally comes to the format for the next generation..blu-ray. This superb transfer of this great little film can not be better. You will have yourself dancing and singing along in no time!

My granddaughter was thrilled to receive this and she will enjoy watching it over and over.

A great film for anyone of any age...so long as you're a kid at heart. Sure, it's a bit cheesy, but the music is fun and catchy and you'll be wanting to learn the dance moves the first time you see it.

Is a great movie for the 5 to early teen age range.High School Musical 2 (Extended Edition)

Cheaper than the store considering the Free shipping to my front door.Good deal and a great surprise for my Daughter when she came home from school.