High School Musical China: College Dreams (歌舞青春), (also known as High School Musical: China – College Dreams) is a spin-off of the High School Musical series for the Chinese market. Directed by Chen Shi-Zheng, it was released on September 6 2011. The film is a Chinese version of the American series, released in North America on DVD under the Disney World Cinema Brand. Film Business Asia critic Derek Elley rated the adaptation three points out of ten. He criticized the lack of effort or care in making a culturally relevant adaptation of the original, pointing to the film's setting, made to look like "any college in Middle America, but full of Mandarin-speaking students", and the "non-existent" script. One song Elley pulled out as "half-memorable" was 'Rainy Season' (梅雨季), as "the first that seems to be authentically from a Chinese youth musical after an hour of pseudo hip-hop and rap". Ultimately, he called it "an example of Hollywood's continuing inability to learn any lessons in cultural transplantation".
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