high school musical 2: ok

gosh gosh gosh. i sat through the whole high school musical 2 and i actually found it not bad! dun hate me for that ok?

yeah, i can't believe this either. 9 out of 10 people had told me that this second installment sucked big time although they had loved the first one. so it took so long before i found the right 'mood' to press play. the movie was very colourful (it was summertime!), a lot more dances and songs and of course, still as cheesy as ever for the prepubescents out there.

after some thoughts, i found the reason for my acceptance of this movie (i sulked at the first one). it all boils down to my 'expectations' or pre-expectations of it. and i guess this applies to others things in life as well. the least we expect something to be good, we will be surprised when it all ends well because of the low success rate we put to it.

for all the HSM fans out there who loved the first one, of course they expected the second to be better. but too much singing and too little dialogue sort of put them off and another reason might be, some of the fans have actually grown up and they did not realise that whatever excited them last time did not do the trick this time. poor things.

so i guess starting from zero when judging is always the best. it is easier to add the stars along the way than to take them out one by one disappointed. is this how an optimist think? then i want to be one. no more prejudgement of anything. no more listening to what others say before seeing and hearing it myself. at least i know i won't be disappointed.