High School Musical 2 - Extended Edition
Comedy, Family, Musical
Walt Disney Pictures  (2007) 111 mins TV-G

4.6 (12,316 votes)
Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) and Ryan (Lucas Grabeel) plan on spending the summer at their country club, Lava Springs. Sharpay also wants to spend the summer with Troy (Zac Efron) and break up him and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens). She gets Troy a job a Lava Springs. Troy convinces the manager to give all his friends jobs for the summer. What ensues is their summer of learning and growing. Troy is lured by the promises of a college scholarship by Sharpay's family and finds himself being pulled away from Gabriella and his friends. Ryan, meanwhile, feels neglected by Sharpay. All events culminate at the annual talent show with everyone learning a lesson and becoming friends again....

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Cast and Crew
Zac Efron  ......  Troy Bolton
Vanessa Anne Hudgens  ......  Gabriella Montez
Ashley Tisdale  ......  Sharpay Evans
Lucas Grabeel  ......  Ryan Evans
Corbin Bleu  ......  Chad Danforth
Monique Coleman  ......  Taylor McKessie
Director  .....  Kenny Ortega
Producer  .....  Kenny Ortega; Bill Borden; Don Schain
Writer  .....  Peter Barsocchini
Cinematography  .....  Daniel Aranyó
Musician  .....  David Lawrence
Notes
Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the final dance in the opening song outside the school, Gabriella can be heard singing "ah, ah!" and everybody else sings "school's out, scream and shout!". But Gabriella is seen singing the words "school's out, scream and shout!" with everyone else. (more)

Trivia:
Unlike the first film where he was dubbed partially by Andrew Seeley, Zac Efron does all of his own singing in this film. (more)

Filming Locations:
East High School - 840 S 1300 E, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (more)

Quotes:
Jason Cross: [after Troy leaves with the U of A basketball players] Would you guys get mad if I asked him where I could get one of those Redhawks jackets? (more)

Awards:
Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations (more)