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High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: Troy dances through the corridors at night. When he jumps against the wall, you can see many dark footprints, from previous takes.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Troy and Chad push the broken lorry home, we can see liquid steaming out from the engine. Troy says that the fuel pump is broken, but they replace the radiator's missing stopper. An engine with a broken fuel pump won't run at all. A broken water pump would make it overheat.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When the basketball team first get the trophy, the cameraman and some of the crew are reflected in the basketball on the trophy.
  
  

• Continuity: As "Rocketman" talks to Troy just before home room, his hair changes (in front of face, away from face, in front again) between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Troy gets green paint on his hands, then climbs over the white fence without getting green paint on it.
  
  
• Continuity: In the yearbook room, Troy is wearing Converse sneakers. In the next scene, at lunch, he is wearing Vans.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Kelsi's necklace is backward in one scene, revealing the clear tape used to keep it in place.
  
  
• Continuity: When Tiara is at Sharpay's locker, she holds out the pink shopping bag with her left hand. In the next close-up, it's in her right hand.
  
  
• Continuity: When Troy and Gabriella are dancing on the roof, the back of Gabriella's dress, just under her hair, is ripped. You can see the difference in a later scene.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Sharpay closes her locker, the interior lights stay on.
  
  
• Plot holes: The drama teacher tells Troy to turn out the lights and to lock up. Any teacher would see that the student departed and see that the building was properly locked up.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The trees have full summer leaves at the party after the basketball game. The weather would be much colder on a night after a basketball game in Albuqurque.
  
  
• Continuity: In the graduation dance scene when Chad drops the basketball and it rolls behind him, we quickly see Troy reach down and pick it up. In the next shot Troy is dancing with Gabriella and the ball is gone.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Troy asks Gabriella to the prom on the school's roof, they waltz to "Can I Have This Dance". Throughout the musical number, the daylight switches back and forth from early morning sun to evening sunset several times, suggesting that the filmmakers spent all day shooting this scene and edited together the best bits, although clearly filmed at different times of day and causing a disjointed feel.
  
  
• Continuity: When Troy and Chad arrive at the junk yard, Troy gets out of the truck and you can see he has on light blue boxers. When they start singing his boxers change to navy blue or black.
  
  
• Continuity: When Troy and Gabriella are in the tree house, Gabriella's dress switches from having the third button buttoned and unbuttoned.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In "Right Here, Right Now" you can see the lining of the blue screen which shows the trees and sky on it.
  
  
• Continuity: In the final scene when Chad and Taylor come up to dance he has a basketball in his hands. When it gets knocked out of his hands Troy picks it up but a split second later it is not in Troy's hands anymore, and Troy has his hands around Gabriella.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of the graduation ceremony scene all the students are seen standing as Troy gives his speech; in the next shots they are then seen sitting on white chairs and then when the final song starts it switches back to them standing, the chairs have disappeared.
  
  
• Factual errors: Throughout the movie, Troy keeps complaining about a new fuel pump for his truck. Fuel Injected systems with fuel pumps where not common until the late 1980s. His being an older truck (1960s Ford) would have most likely had a carburetor, not a fuel pump.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Troy and Gabriella are walking to the house you see Troy holding a yellow English book for 11th graders, not 12th graders. The only way he would have this book is if he failed that class last year, meaning he is either taking two English classes, or he is going to summer school his senior year.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ryan and Kelsi sing the beginning of "Be With You" you can clearly see that they are both singing the lyric "Even if we're miles apart" even though you can only hear Ryan singing until "miles apart."
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Even though it is presumably May or June (around the time of graduation), in the scene where Coach Bolton confronts Troy about Julliard, you can see the breaths of both actors.
  
  
• Continuity: During Troy's house party, a shot of Kelsi DJing is directly followed by a shot of a group dancing, with Kelsi in the middle.
  
  
• Continuity: While Gabriella is pleading to the group to do the musical, a clipboard with a pen is facing left to right on the screen, in the next shot of Gabriella, the clip board is facing towards Gabriella.
  
  
• Continuity: While Kelsi is trying to get the group to do the musical, Gabriella is talking to Ryan, the next shot, she is facing the other direction.
  
  
• Continuity: In the basketball game, Troy's hair goes from being very sweaty to almost dry in just a few seconds. It goes back and forth several times.
  
  
• Continuity: During the last timeout, when Rocketman gets called into the huddle, he is wearing white pants. When he goes into the game, he is not wearing them anymore.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ryan joins Kelsi in the music room during "Music in Me" he looks at a piece of sheet music before sitting down and playing the song on the piano. However, this sheet music shown is only a vocal score and has no piano chords written on it so there is no way Ryan would've known how to play the song.
  
  
• Continuity: When Troy is on the roof talking to Gabriella over the phone, there is nothing behind him. When Troy and Gabriella are both on the roof, there is a green house and plants.
  
  
• Continuity: During "A Night To Remember", Chad walks through the dressing room doors twice.
  
  
• Continuity: When Rocket man comes off the bench, he is taking off his white warm up suit. While he runs to the huddle he is taking off his warm up jacket. When he gets to the huddle he is tossing his warm up jacket, but he warm up pants are also off.
  
  
• Continuity: When the team comes out during the musical after the cheerleaders, while Troy is with Gabriella, Troy's voice is clearly heard being sung over all other voices when he is not there.
  
  
• Continuity: Both Gabriella and her mother are seen moving away from their house in Albuquerque, and Troy and Gabriella drive back together without her mother for the musical. But her mother can be seen in the audience of the musical's performance back at East High.
  
  

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