"Who Is Hannah Montana?" DVD Review: You'll Want to Always Remember These

Sunday, a special hour-long episode of “Hannah Montana Forever” sets the stage for the show to come to an end. It’s an episode no “Hannah” fan should miss.

But you can actually see it before it airs on the new DVD, “Hannah Montana Forever: Who Is Hannah Montana?” which hit stores Tuesday.

In the episode, “I Will Always Remember You,” Miley (Miley Cyrus) tells her boyfriend, Jesse (Drew Roy), that she’s Hannah Montana. When he’s totally cool with it, she puts him back in her band so they can spend more time together. Everything’s going great until Jesse kisses Hannah on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and Jay (who appears as himself) declares them a couple. So when Jesse is seen hugging Miley, he becomes the guy who broke Hannah’s heart. And that’s a title Jesse’s not sure he can live with.

Hannah also becomes a problem when she interferes with Miley’s chances of going to college with Lilly (Emily Osment).

Both circumstances make Miley seriously consider hanging up the wig for good…

Now I don’t want to give away what happens, but it’s a pretty major moment that will totally change the course of what’s left of the show. In all honesty, it felt like this was the series finale. The show pours every ounce of emotion it can out of Miley’s decision as even Jay Leno gets in on the act. But it’s well done and might even bring a little tear to your eye.

And let’s face it. If the show was able to wring this much emotion out of this episode, what are they going to do for the finale? We had all best have some tissues ready…

The DVD doesn’t end with this special episode. It also takes us down memory lane with episodes showing us all the other memorable times when Miley told someone her secret. There’s the time she told a police officer to clear up a driver’s license mix-up, and her confessions to Jackson’s girlfriend, Sienna (Tammin Sursock), Jake (Cody Linley) and Oliver (Mitchel Musso). Plus, there’s her confession to Lilly in the very first episode that started it all. The episodes go in reverse order on the DVD, probably to avoid shocking us at just how much Miley Cyrus has grown up over the years. But it’s obvious from her first moment on screen that she had star written all over her. Thankfully, Osment has grown up a lot too. If you’ve never seen it, I think you’ll be a little surprised at just how annoying she comes off in the pilot.

The episodes are a good capsule of “Hannah” and, again, get you ready for that inevitable ending…

The bonus feature on the DVD is a sneak peek at “Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure,” the new movie starring Ashley Tisdale in her “High School Musical” role as Sharpay Evans. Sharpay is trying to make it big on Broadway, but she’s finding it’s not as easy as it seems. I’m excited that Tisdale has not left her Disney roots, but I’m not sure Sharpay can hold my attention without Ryan (Lucas Grabeel). I guess we’ll see this Spring.

If you’re a Disney Channel fan, I also recommend you watching the feature that explains Blu-Ray discs (If you haven’t already seen it on another DVD.). Yes, it’s a commercial to get you to buy more Disney Blu-Rays, but they make it fairly clever with Dylan and Cole Sprouse from “The Suite Life on Deck.” And the real bonus is they bring back Kim Rhodes as their mother. The three of them still have really great chemistry.

With only six episodes, you might wonder if this DVD is worth the money, but I say yes because it gives you a good cross section of the entire series. And when “Hannah” is gone, you’re going to want to always remember her…

“Hannah Montana Forever: Who Is Hannah Montana?” is now available…

Photos Credit: Walt Disney Home Entertainment & Eric McCandless/Disney Channel