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HIGH SCHOOL: THE MUSICAL (DVD)

By | January 2007

“Rent” was about AIDS and the homosexual lifestyle, “Grease” was a raunchy look at the fifties, “West Side Story” was a modern adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” and “High School Musical” is a simplistic, and single minded, teen romp that disappears from your collective memory minutes after viewing it…

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