I think Disney's jumped the shark...

[Jeemie]

...with their "High School Musical"-type shows.

Since I have a daughter of the right age, I sat with her and watched "Camp Rock" tonight.

In a word...it sucked...badly.

HSM had the hippness and cool music to attract the tweens in...but it also had a smart story and good actors to drive it along.

"Camp Rock" had none of that...just hip-looking cool tweens/teens singing and dancing with awkward scenes in between that felt like filler whose sole purpose was to get you to the next number.

And I guess was a "vehicle" for the Jonas Brothers (although only one of them was in it for any great length of time).

Oh...and it was a nice vehicle to promote the upcoming Cheetah Girls movie, their new video, the aforementioned Jonas brothers' new video, "High School Musical- Get in the Picture" and "Wipeout".

In short, simply a 3-hour long advertisement.

NOT impressed AT ALL (and my daughter wasn't really, either).

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

I feel so lucky that my girls are cynical and hate all of the HSM and Jonas Brothers crap.

You are a good dad to sit through it with your daughter.

[TheConfessor]

In a word...it sucked...badly.

That's three words.

What is this? A new movie? A live show? Whatever it is, I'll make a point to avoid it, except for acquiring a general awareness of it for the purpose of answering trivia questions.

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

Here is a trailer for it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IlD2U0dbns

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

Another trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5lw592j2RA&NR=1

[silvercamaro]

I posted about watching Camp Rock last night on a FNGD thread, because our meister Etaoin had asked a question on Friday about one of the young stars.

I am all about sacrifice for the sake of learning. (Okay, not much sacrifice, and not much learning.)

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

Instead of watching the show, Maddie was watching "I love the 80's" on VH1, or as she says, studying for Quiz Bowl.