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High School Musical 1 is the first movie in a three movie series.  It was released on January 20, 2006 and become Disney Channel’s most successful original movie.  It was the first Disney Channel Original Movie to have a theatrical sequel.  The soundtrack from High School Musical 1 became very popular in the United States and reached number 1 on America’s charts in 2006.  High School Musical 1 was written by Peter Barsocchini and directed by Kenny Ortega.  It stars Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Lucas Grabeel, Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, and Monique Coleman.

In High School Musical 1 Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) transfers to East High School after winter break.  She had met the basketball team star (Zac Efron) during vacation and is surprised, and happy to run into him at her new high school.  They quickly become friends and try out for their school’s musical.  However, Troy’s teammates aren’t thrilled with his new hobby.  Troy’s best friend (Corbin Bleu) and Gabriella’s best friend (Monique Coleman) come up with a plan to make sure can’t be in the musical.  Unfortunately, this ruins all of their friendships and they must work together to make things right.

Gabriella Montez is very bright.  She is also very adventurous and open to trying newthings.  Troy Bolton is the basketball star.  He is always found playing basketball until he meets Gabriella.  She opens him up and shows us a different side of him.  Chad Danforth is the funny sidekick.  He always makes us laugh and seems fun to be around.  Taylor McKessie is also very smart and is the president of the academic decathlon.  She is a very good friend to Gabriella.  Sharpay Evens is bossy and rich.  She feels like she runs the school and isn’t very friendly to many people.  Ryan Evens is Sharpay’s brother he is always following her around and at times seems very clueless to what’s going on.

High School Musical is mainly about friendship.  In the movie we see how friends can be torn apart and how that changes the people individually.  A theme from High School Musical is nothing is more important than friendship. In the movie when Troy and Gabriella are mad at each other they are both very sad.  Even though Taylor and Chad’s plan worked, neither of them are happy to see their best friends so miserable.  In the end they realize that what they wanted (Troy and Gabriella not to be in the musical) wasn’t what their friends wanted.  Taylor and Chad decide that it is more important for Troy and Gabriella to be happy and friends again than it is if they sing in the musical or if they don’t.

Overall I think High School Musical is a great movie.  It is definitely a feel-good one.  All the songs and fun characters always leave you walking away with a smile.  The songs are really what makes the movie so great.  Once you have watched the movie a couple of times you find yourself singing along with every single song.  I think this is what makes this movie so enjoyable and easy to watch over and over again.