Top Ten | High School movies that should be made into musicals

    With the release of "High School Musical 3" just around the corner, waiting to shank you and take your hard-earned money, we here at the Daily started thinking that many of our favorite classic movies have dealt with high-school issues — why not turn those into musicals as well? At least you'd end up with an interesting plot. After compiling this list, we decided that it's probably best if we just leave the music to the "HSM" crew…

10. "Dead Poet's Society" (1989): The bittersweet ending of this prep school classic would truly be capped off by a requiem for the dead kid, sung by Robin Williams.

9. "The Emperor's Club" (2002): Excellent opportunities for a ballad by Kevin Kline backed by a boy's chorus ... and a lot of jazz hands in togas during the school-wide competition.

8. "Radio" (2003): While it's not exactly a high-school movie, it does tell the heart-wrenching story of a boy who just wants to play football. If we say anything more about this one, we'd just be guaranteeing our place in hell.

7. "Can't Hardly Wait" (1998): The only way Seth Green's character could get any better in this movie if all his lines were rapped instead of spoken. Also, the soundtrack would be loaded with rocking tunes by Loveburger!

6. "Porky's" (1982): You would need someone with a good falsetto to nail the notes during the most… grabbing… scene of the movie.

5. "Teeth" (2007): Not only does it bite, it sings. Poorly.

4. "High School Musical: The Musical": Much like video game "Street Fighter: The Movie" (1995) or "The Producers" (2005), it's a show within a show within a show. It's so meta, man. Trippy.

3. "Juno" (2007): The hip, quick-witted language of this pregnant teen would make for catchy lyrics, and who wouldn't love to see Michael Cera breakin' it down in knee-high socks? Coordinated dance moves practically invent themselves with motions such as "The Kraken from the Sea," "The Sea Monkey Ultrasound" and "The Stink-Eye."

2. "Ten Things I Hate About You" (1999): While the movie already has one musical number, imagine it with choreographed dancing, a light show, nd a zombified Heath Ledger — What? Still too soon?

1. "American Pie" (1999): Though the cast, excluding Eugene Levy, is loath to return to the series, let's face it — a musical is a much better idea than "Beta House" (2007). What better underscore that intensely awkward scene when Jim's dad walks in during the pie ... scene? I think you get the idea.

— compiled by the Daily Arts Department