Bet you didn’t know this weekend’s most anticipated movie is “a cautionary tale about learning to pay attention to your own internal moral compass.”

You probably thought “High School Musical 2″ would be about songs, dancing and cute teens in cool clothes cutting loose without adult supervision (while still remaining good kids any parent would be proud to claim).

Or maybe, just maybe, you were also thinking “HSM2″ could be another golden – no, platinum – opportunity for the Disney folks to start printing more money in outrageously big batches.

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Zac Efron has really made the so-called awkwardness of adolescence work in his favor.

“The new American heartthrob,” as Rolling Stone dubbed its Aug. 9 cover boy, has signed on to star in the comedy Seventeen, a Big-in-reverse tale of a 36-year-old man who wakes up one morning to find himself a high school senior again, according to Entertainment Weekly‘s Website.

But at least he wakes up and has been miraculously transformed into the most popular cinematic senior in recent memory.

Efron, 19, who’s currently in theaters playing Link Larkin, the big—yet sensitive—man on campus in Hairspray, made a name for himself last year as the basketball jock who falls for the brainy girl in the Disney Channel phenomenon High School Musical, one of the cable network’s most successful original movies ever.

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