Saturday, January 5, 2008

IT'S A CROWD FAVORITE. EVERYONE LOVES A GOOD JAZZ SQUARE: A brief field report to confirm that if you've got kids who want to see High School Musical: The Ice Tour, it doesn't suck.

More specifically: you've got about forty energetic skaters lip-synching all the songs, and kinda-sorta looking like the characters (Chad: spot on; Troy: looked more like David Schwimmer than Zac Efron), and they breeze through the plots and all the official songs of both films (sorry, no "Humuhumunukunukuapu'a") in about 45-50 minutes each. Yes, "Bet On Me" as a furious one-man lutzing solo. Yes, Sharpay's "You Are the Music in Me" with the Sharpettes. Yes, they did "Get Your Head in the Game" while dribbling basketballs on ice.

Okay, some things needed to be cut -- Troy, Gabriella and the Evans' parents; pretty much anything having to do with Taylor; the whole University of Albuquerque thing; Ryan's whole questioning thing; the G-O D-R-A-M-A C-L-U-B-exclamation point; the golfing ... but if you've got a hankering for more HSM in your life, or if you have a child in your house that does, well, as Jen said when Lu and I got home, Disney's smart enough to make sure to not diminish the brand through its spinoff products. And it was not diminished.

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