High School Musical 2

"Pants" - Stephen Fry, BBC Radio 5 Live

The second of the High School Musical films and the one that really lets the series down, owing to having too much smooshing. The sequence of the first film being great, the second being rubbish but the third being great again led to the creation of the High School Musical rule.

The verdict from Stephen Fry quoted above came in the context of the film 17 Again and a discussion about which film has the best Zac Efron performance.

Mark Kermode's daughter told him that he wasn't a proper film critic because he had seen neither this nor its predecessor, owing to the fact that it went straight to television.