As many of you may know, the end of October Disney gave us the opportunity to watch the third part of the teen movie hit High School Musical. This time the plot wasn't that much different from the previous ones though, and that's probably the main reason why this part didn't reach even half of the fame of the first movie. They should have avoided that "same movie, different settings" idea. Even the second part was quite similar to the first, but at least there weren't that many similarities as with this one.

Basically, Albuquerque's East High School is back with the important basketball matches of the Wildcats, some songs with familiar tunes, and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) and Troy (Zac Efron) are struggling with the idea that they will be separated again, etc.

So after the typical Wildcat match at the beginning of the movie (they are losing, but in the end, with some inspirational words and a song, they get really better and win the match), Ms. Darbus tells the students that she wants to organize a new play with all of them before they leave the school. At first most of them don't want to do it, but after Gabriella makes Troy agree, everyone else agrees to do it too. So far it's similar to the first part but not enough to get you bored, though shortly after you get that "Hey! I've watched this already" feeling.

Gabriella is accepted into Stanford and she has to leave the town and go there. This is where the tricky part comes. It all happens so sadly and is made into a big deal like in the second movie when she had to leave Troy and the rest of her friends. Now, once she calls him to tell him that she won't be coming back for the prom, that she wouldn't be able to come back because if she ever sees him and everyone else she wouldn't be able to say goodbye, you start thinking that this actually might get a bit exciting. Sadly, it won't. The next day Troy drives all the way to Stanford, then drives back with her, and they arrive just in time for their part of the Musical.

The Musical was actually the only part I enjoyed, mostly since it wasn't like the rest of the ones in the previous movies. This time, Juilliard gave an opportunity for a scholarship to Troy, for whom Ms. Darbus applied, and for Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale), Ryan (Lucas Grabeel), and Kelsi (Olesya Rulin), which made a smile appear on my face just because Kelsi's been doing a great job and there was never enough attention towards her, it was all around Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay and Ryan. Kelsi and Ryan started the musical, with a truly lovely performance. Then it was the Wildcats' cheerleaders turn, and then Ryan again with some performance in which the pink was obviously dominating. After that comes the funny part, Sharpay starts singing and when Troy is supposed to sing, she just stops and listens for a while and then repeats the last line of the song, for a few times like that. Troy wasn't back yet, so Jimmie replaced him, which made little princess Sharpay sad and angry.

Once she got off the stage, it was Troy and Gabriella's turn to play the same part that Sharpay just did, and they arrived just in time for this. Lovely singing and choreography occured once again and the Juilliard people surely looked amazed by it, which would make you think that Troy was accepted.

To break the monotony, they also found an assistant for Sharpay in the movie this time; but, in the end, the assistant stole Sharpay's dress and wanted to steal her performance too. It ended up with both appearing on the stage in the same dress and arguing.

After that, the graduation ceremony took place, and it was announced that Ryan and Kelsi got the Juilliard scholarships, which I think was rightfully fair.

The last "surprise," if we can call it that, is that Troy didn't end up joining a basketball team and playing in the league right away; he decided to attend the college UC-Berkeley where he can be both a basketball player and a showtunes guy.

Basically, High School Musical 3: Senior Year pretty similar to the previous movies, so if you are expecting something outstanding then I recommend you not watch it since it'll break your dreams, but if you think you could spend half an hour on something like déjà vu, then it sure is a good idea to watch it, since it's not completely bad — it just lacks creativity and differences from the prequels.