The Roush Review
Going Back to High School
On Disney+, it’s all about putting on a show, even decades later
IN THE WONDERFUL world of Disney, now filtered through the new Disney+ subscription service, it seems you never forget your first high school musical. Or High School Musical, for that matter.
Hoping for pop-culture lightning to strike again, the streaming platform revisits one of Disney Channel’s greatest hits, a 2006 kitsch classic that made household names of Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens. She’s apparently known as “V. Hudge” to a new generation of theater-camp geeks—who would seem to. It’s a very meta, but mostly meh, homage set in the same Utah high school where the original movie was filmed and which seemingly has yet to get over the honor.
