Though the story has familiar elements (Romeo and Juliet, character going against what he’s expected to be) High School Musical obviously makes connections with its audience. Now, the Disney Channel massive hit comes to DVD. The show is also being taken on the road with a new High School Musical Concert Tour. Click here to read more about it.

I know at least six full-grown women who love Grease 2. I also know two women and one gay man who adore Xanadu. Hell, I know one lunatic who thinks The Wiz is better than The Wizard of Oz. And I'm certainly not immune: You know that live-action Popeye musical? I love it. So it seems that just about every movie fan has some weird taste in musicals every once in a while. Which brings us to the out-of-nowhere phenomenon hit that became a global virus a few years back when "just another" made-for-Disney Channel movie debuted ... and became that hottest kiddie sensation since, like, The Cabbage Patch Kids. (Yeah, I'm old.)

The differences between the original version of "Fame" and the splashy new production reveal a great deal about the changes in the movie business over the last three decades. Alan Parker's "Fame," released in 1980, retained some of the hallmarks of edgy movies of the '70s. Tackling subjects like racial conflict and homosexuality, it had a gritty urban flavor melded to high-powered musical numbers. The retooled version, directed by young music video wiz Kevin Tancharoen, apes "High School Musical" rather than "Mean Streets." Rated PG, it's almost laughably bland and watered-down in its desire to appeal to the widest possible audience. It won't succeed in that goal, but it has enough pizzazz to captivate undemanding tweeners.

Also known as Twisted Brain, Horror High is a no-budget fright flick set in -- you guessed it -- a high school. Nerdy student Pat Cardi is picked on by everyone in the free world: his parents, school bullies, pretty girls, even the school janitor. Spending a lonely evening in his basement lab, Cardi creates a serum that turns him into a monster. Here's the crayons...fill in the blanks as to what happens next.

Ashley Tisdale is back as Sharpay Evans in the direct to Disney DVD movie Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure which hits store shelves tomorrow (4/19/11). I gave you the rundown on the movie in my sneak peek post, so today you get my review.

A teenage zero becomes a high school hero after secretly becoming the school mascot at the behest of his best friend. Unable to carry on the family tradition of being the Hondo High School mascot due to the fact that he's allergic to the costume, teenager Cleatus Poole (Mitchel Musso) quietly recruits his best friend Pete (Jason Dolley) for the job.

Danielle is the leader of a clique of arrogant, mean high school girls she and her rich friends Tiffany and Brooke care only about their pampered selves (although Brooke has periodic misgivings). No one really hangs out with them except a dumb jock named Gavin, and the class nerd Jonathan, and poor Danielle is getting nowhere with the popular guy Drew, even after she and friends accidentally killed his last girlfriend. Its been a year, and Drew still ignores her - but he doesnt ignore the new foreign exchange student Katarina. Since Katarina cant take a hint, Danielle begins plotting her downfall. But theres a slight problem Danielle and her friends begin experiencing a level of high weirdness in which all three of them rapidly age. This serves to make Danielle more desperate than ever. Shell sacrifice anything, even Drew, to get her youth and looks back.

We just finished watching the new Disney Channel Original Movie “Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam” and of course we loved it! The movie stars the Jonas Brothers (Nick, Joe and Kevin) and Demi Lovato along with Frankie Jonas, Alyson Stoner, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, Meaghan Martin and Matthew “Mdot” Finley and is set to premiere on the Disney Channel on September 3, 2010 at 8/7c.

In the movie, the Camp Rock kids are heading back to camp, and Shane Gray (Joe) and Mitchie Torres (Demi) are really excited to get to spend the summer together – that is, until they find out that a new camp has opened in the area, called “Camp Star.” Turns out Camp Star might force Camp Rock to close down!

Ah! the tender years of high school: hanging out where your best buddies while hoping you'll finally find a girl who'll take away your virginity and calm all your flaming testosterone for good. Boy did it sucked !

Described by many as the Belgian Superbad, Riad Sattouf's Les Beaux Gosses is easily the best teen comedy of the year. With its realistic approach to the genre, the result is a very funny comedy that also shows adolescence with a veracity we rarely see on the screen.

Is it my imagination, or have the movies gone into the Wayback Machine and come out in the late 1950s? Genres thought dead and moldering in their film canisters are suddenly back on their feet. ‘‘Hairspray,’’ ‘‘Once,’’ and even Disney’s ‘‘High School Musical’’ have revived the musical, and now the classic western is getting a reboot. Early buzz on ‘‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford’’ is building well in advance of its October release; until then, we’ll have to be content with the lean, almost absurdly satisfying ‘‘3:10 to Yuma.’’

The Cell 2 is an amazing film. Not because it’s good or anything like that, because it isn’t. Far from good, in fact: it’s an absolute piece of shit if you’re really dying to know. No, the amazing feat about The Cell 2 is that it is credited as having four screenwriters — and not one of them had what the common sense to fill in some of the story’s numerous plot holes.

I vaguely recall watching the first Cell film back in 2000. I don’t remember much, other than the fact that I thought it was rather silly and mostly forgettable (and obviously the latter was true since I, well, don’t remember). However, as bad as the original Jennifer Lopez vehicle was, it could not be anywhere near as terrible as The Cell 2.

On the game winning play of the biggest game of his life, the best High School Football player in the nation injures his knee and destroys his dreams of a college and professional career. But fifteen years later, he receives the opportunity of a lifetime the chance to go back and change history.

film, lovingly adapted from the Broadway musical, preserves the inclusive, celebratory spirit of John Waters’s 1988 movie, in which bigger-boned, darker-skinned and otherwise different folk take exuberant revenge on the bigots and the squares who conspire to keep them down. The surprise may be that this “Hairspray,” stuffed with shiny showstoppers, Kennedy-era Baltimore beehives and a heavily padded John Travolta in drag, is actually good.

Dawn grows up in the shadow of a nuclear power plant. In high school, while her biology class studies evolution, she realizes she may have a hidden curse, an adaptation. She lives with her mom, step-father, and hard-edged step-brother. She likes Tobey, a guy at school, and he likes her. She takes a pledge to remain chaste until marriage, so they date in groups, watch G-rated films, and dont kiss, but the power of teen hormones is great, so temptation beckons. Dawn has an admirer in Ryan, and when she breaks it off unexpectedly with Tobey, she turns to Ryan for help. Will he be her mythical hero and rescue her? Or can she find her way as her own hero, turning the curse into an asset?

After "hooking up" with a series of guys at a house party, April is the talk of her high school. Her best friend Michelle, envious of all of April's attention, decides to try and follow in her footsteps and become more sexually forward.