High School Musical 2 Disney Channel; Fri. Aug. 17, 8 p.m. Production: Filmed on location in Salt Lake City by Salty Pictures and First Street Films. Executive producers, Bill Borden, Barry ...

“High School Musical” was an unlikely hit.The original movie’s unassuming nature, earnest cast, ... Troy, in turn, gets the rest of his school friends hired there as well.

Gabriella and Troy set out to have a great summer but obviously, things didn’t go as planned. ... High School Musical 2, like the original, isn’t meant to be realistic.

“High School Musical 2” has to settle for something less, merely defeating the schemes of rich but delightfully venal Sharpay Evans (Ashley Tisdale), who wants Troy for her own.

Learn more about the full cast of High School Musical 2 with news, photos, ... In the end, Troy will have to learn how to think about his scholarship without losing his friends.

HSM2 brings back the High School Musical characters you know and love — Troy Bolton (Zac Efron), Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens), Sharpay Evans (Ashley Tisdale), Ryan Evans (Lucas Grabeel ...

The second most iconic thing about “High School Musical 2” beyond its music is the main pseudo-love triangle of Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale, “Phineas and Ferb”), Troy (Zac Efron, “The Greatest Showman”) ...

But when "High School Musical 2" premieres on Aug. 17, ... Corbin Bleu, who plays Troy's friend Chad, makes a point of saying "I was the guy voted teacher's pet in the yearbook." ...

With High School Musical 2, the franchise is putting its music foot first. ... The HSM 2 plot amounts to the Last Temptation of Troy, with the hero tested in the desert — well, ...

High School Musical 2 follows Troy (Zac Efron), Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens), and the East High School gang from the hollowed halls to a country club where they all get jobs for the summer, like it ...

It’s the start of summer, and Sharpay Evans is lounging poolside at the resort her family owns, looking forward to forgetting about that whole mess with Troy and Gabriella winning ...

Basically, HSMTMTS Season 3 takes some inspiration from "High School Musical 2" and "Camp Rock," but lacks what made those Disney Channel movies, well, sing.