FREYED: Even in remote Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod, folks can take a few minutes away from Race Point Beach and their tea dances to figure out that lying about your self-published novel being an Oprah Book Club pick will eventually be found out, and telling one big lie probably means you're lying about other things too.

NO TEA PARTIES: Four Square is making a comeback.

I MAJORED IN VACATION: Things to love about HSM2:

• So many big dance numbers. It's a fun movie to watch.
  
• Increased roles for secondary characters like Kelsi, Martha, and Zeke
  
• Sharpay's Tina Turner number, and her new friends the Sharp-ettes. And the Esther Williams number.
  
• That corkscrew move during the opening number.
• That three songs were co-written by Robbie Nevil, of "C'est La Vie" and "Wot's It To Ya" fame, as there were in the original.
  
• The whole Troy-Ryan switcheroo.
• Troy's pouty-face on the bridge during the breakup number.
• The line "I don't even know who I am anymore." If you're going to write a formula movie, give us the formula line.
  
• The Troy-Sharpay dressing room scene.
• Freud's going to have a field day with that penultimate scene on the golf course.
  

However:

• Not enough Lucas Grabeel. Not that there's ever enough.
  
• Never has Zac Efron looked as short as when he stood next to the basketball players. And did he have Extra Shirtlessness written into his contract?
• Also, his voice double from the first movie has a better singing voice than he does.
• Also, the Angry Zac In Black number was the musical equivalent of Kevin Bacon's solo dancing in the mill in Footloose, except without being awesome. Especially because, as Virginia Heffernan notes, his spray-tan got a little out of control.
• And, in general, the songs just felt too processed, a bit too non-diegetic. And nothing's as catchy as "We're All In This Together" or "Get Your Head In The Game," but I haven't seen this five times yet.

Thoughts, comments?

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IN A WORLD WHERE DAVID DENBY SAYS "APATOVIAN" IS AN OFFICIAL PROPER ADJECTIVE, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN: Sure, we'll talk about Superbad and HSM2 this weekend, but if you're ready for the next next big thing, it may well be Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the musical biopic of the year coming this December from Mr. Apatow and co-writer/director Jake Kasdan. John C. Reilly is your the titular lead, supported by Jenna Fischer, Kristen Wiig, and Tim Meadows, with Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Jason Schwartzman and Justin Long as the Beatles.

THEY CAME, THEY SAW, THEY CONCHORD: Via Sepinwall, the irritatingly-delayed but never-really-in-doubt decision has come down. We can expect more global robot depression, more boom-booming 'til the break of boom, more getting diseases from monkeys, more foux de fa fa, and more rhymenaecology, because HBO renewed Flight of the Conchords.

Surely next season they can work in Petrov, Yelyena and Me (please tell me I haven't missed it while, or whilst, without TV).

A GROGNARD MOMENT: In case you're still looking for something to do this weekend, how about starting a fun game of The Campaign For North Africa? That should keep you busy not just for the whole rest of the weekend, but almost through Columbus Day (estimated playing time is 1,200 hours, and requires 5 persons per side to administer the various logistics).