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...High School Musical 2, it's vacation, and the kids of Albuquerque's East High are looking for summer jobs. Jock-turned-stage-star Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) scores a sweet gig as an assistant golf pro at the Lava Springs country club and gets jobs for his pals and girlfriend Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens). The catch: his job has been arranged by spoiled rich girl and theater brat Sharpay Evans (Ashley Tisdale), who considers Troy her rightful boyfriend. She connives for him to duet with her in a talent show--and for Gabriella to be left out. For middle...
...brother Ryan (Lucas Grabeel) and athlete Chad (Corbin Bleu). (The double entendres--"I'll show you how I swing!"--re unavoidable, if unintentional.) The whole production is as blindingly art-directed as a sixth-grader's backpack--Lava Springs looks as if it's made out of chunks of sweet-and-sour chicken, and Sharpay pulls up to it in a pink monogrammed convertible that Barbie might drive...
...Chan, the sweet-souled masochist of Hong Kong action comedies, made four Hollywood-based movies after Rush Hour 2, plus three starring roles in Hong Kong films, but they didn't do much business, and one, Around the World in 80 Days, cost $110 million to produce and took in far less than half that. After 53 years on this planet, 30 as the hardest working star on any continent, with virtually every bone in his body broken while performing his daredevil stunts, Chan may have worn out not his welcome so much as himself...
...iteration of the so-called bromance form yet. Two best friends, Seth and Evan, on the verge of graduating from high school, have to get booze, get over the fact that they're about to go their separate ways and get girls before the night is out. It sounds sweet, but it opens with Seth discussing with Evan which porn website they should subscribe to for the summer. (Top contender: Vagtastic.com. He also notes how jealous he is that the infant Evan got to nurse on Evan's mom's breasts. And it gets more vulgar from there...
...Ramachandran Vasan, lead author of the Framingham study, however, notes, "A zero-calorie drink could produce a metabolic response if it is sweet. It can condition you to develop a preference for sweet things, which can lead to weight gain or metabolic syndrome. So something that is sweet could produce a metabolic effect even if it doesn't have a whole lot of calories...