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Pre-Summer Disney
sentence may be where you exit this ride. If you’re still with us,
I implore you to watch “Midsommar,” last summer’s terrifying
trip to the most horrifying locale imaginable: the picturesque
Swedish countryside.

Still reeling from a traumatic event that I won’t reveal here,
Dani (Florence Pugh) decides to join her boyfriend, Chris-
tian (Jack Reynor), as he and his friends follow a Swedish
acquaintance to his village’s once-every-90-years midsummer
celebration. Th ings do not go as planned as the American
travelers behave poorly, turn on one another and learn more
about the festival.

At the same time, Dani comes to notice increasingly concern-
ing things about Christian (he doesn’t remember her birthday,
for one). Get ready for something called an ättestupa, as well as
close-up shots of severed and mutilated things that, generally
speaking, you don’t want in such condition. Great score, too.

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“High School Musical 2” (2007)
As someone who spent a good part of 1997 living in a uterus,
this movie’s release in 2007 meant my childhood was profoundly
shaped by the “High School Musical” franchise.

Nostalgia aside, “High School Musical 2” is the perfect movie
to revive the part of your soul that died during week eight of
quarantine and make it vaguely excited for summer again.

Choreographed and directed by Kenny Ortega of “Dirty
Dancing” fame, the fi lm’s premise is simple: Aft er proving that
kids from diff erent cliques can be friends, the East High Wildcats
are all set to enjoy summer when the reality of earning money for
college sets in.

Everyone somehow gets jobs at the same country club, which
is owned by the wealthy parents of Ryan (Lucas Grabeel) and
Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale). Tensions fl are along class lines as the
teens prepare for rival performances at the club talent show, but
as per Disney requirements, everyone is friends again by the fi nal
number. Every song in the soundtrack is a bop. Opening number
“What Time is It?” and rich-girl anthem “Fabulous,” will be
stuck in your head for three weeks. While leading couple Troy
(Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) have the chemistry
of damp socks, the unacknowledged but undeniable sexual ten-
sion between Chad (Corbin Bleu) and Ryan in “I Don’t Dance”
makes up for it.

Th e fi lm is also an opportunity to congratulate yourself for
surviving the fashion disaster that was the early 2000s. Low-rise
jeans! Striped polos! Th e color aqua! l
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