The Cheetah Girls 2
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| The Cheetah Girls 2 | |
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| Directed by | Kenny Ortega |
| Produced by | Deborah Gregory Felicia Henderson |
| Written by | Deborah Gregory Felicia Henderson Alison Taylor |
| Starring | Raven-Symoné,Adrienne Bailon,Sabrina Bryan,Kiely Williams Lynn Whitfield Belinda Peregrín |
| Distributed by | Disney Channel |
| Release date(s) | August 25, 2006 |
The Cheetah Girls 2, a television movie, is the sequel to the Disney Channel Original Movie The Cheetah Girls, starring Raven-Symoné, Adrienne Bailon, Kiely Williams, and Sabrina Bryan.
The sequel is about a talented teen quartet who take a whirlwind tour of the Catalonian capital to pursue their dreams of pop superstardom. Actresses Lynn Whitfield (The Josephine Baker Story) and Lori Alter return as the Cheetah Girls' protective mothers, and popular Mexican singer/actress Belinda is introduced in her first English-speaking role as a would-be rival to The Cheetah Girls. Kenny Ortega (High School Musical) directs the movie and co-choreographs the movie with Charles Klapow (High School Musical) and English choreographer Paul Harris (Entrapment) who was brought in for the Tango sequence. Raven-Symoné also is an executive producer on this movie.[1]
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[edit] Storyline
The movie begins in Manhattan, New York, where the Cheetah Girls are performing "The Party's Just Begun" at a Graduation Party for the Manhattan Magnet's class of 2006, and The Cheetah's who are just ending junior year. Chanel and her mother [Juanita] are planning to go to Barcelona, Spain to meet Juanita's boyfriend Luc, for a month of their summer break. Chanel is bummed and does not want to see Luc but the other girls are psyched and want to explore Barcelona. Aqua sees a shooting star later at night and then she and the rest of the girls find an ad for a music festival held in Barcelona. Galleria signs up the Cheetah Girls and the next day, Dorothea, Juanita, and The Cheetah Girls all end up at Luc's European villa. Everyone else but Chanel thinks that Luc is the perfect man for her mom, and she refuses to let him into the family. After the girls shopping spree ended, they meet Angel, a mysterious guitar player who accompanies them around Barcelona.("Strut") The girls audition for the festival and are accepted. The Cheetah Girls are introduced to Joaquin, a handsome dancer who begins to make a romantic relationship with Dorinda. Joaquin takes the Cheetahs to the Dancing Cat, a Spanish night club where all the new artists perform their songs. There they meet Spanish pop artist Marisol,(Belinda) who is also in the Music Festival and her manager/mother, Lola. ("Why Wait") Lola plans a scheme to get the Cheetah Girls to break up, as they are endangering her daughter's chance to win the competition and she wants Chanel to sing with her. ("A La Nanita Nana")Galleria notices that everyone is getting involved in other activities except for her, and decides to just go home because she's the only focused person.(It's Over") While at a train station, the other three girls find Galleria and sing "Amigas Cheetahs", the song she wrote. Galleria finally gives in and says she will only come back if they stay focused. They do a song that shows just how focused they are. ("Step Up")Juanita believes that Luc doesn't want to marry her because Chanel doesn't like him. Luc later proposes to Juanita and she gladly accepts. Luc tells Chanel that she can stay in New York for her upcoming senior year. Later, the girls perform at the Dancing Cat, but then something goes wrong. Lola gets the Dancing Cat's manager to give the Cheetah Girls money for their performance. According to the competition rules, it's only for amateurs, which the Cheetahs are not, since they accepted the money. Angel, who is present during the entire exchange investigates what actually happens. Upon discovering the truth, he informs his uncle, the Festival Director who reinstates the Cheetahs in the competition. As her mother protests this decision, Marisol stands up to her and quits. The grand finale ("Amigas Cheetahs") ends the competition, and the movie as the Cheetahs sing out and call the principal musical, singing, and dancing performers to the stage. The winner of the competition is never revealed, but the audience is led to believe it is the Cheetahs,(In the book the winner is the Cheetah Girls) however most of the movie's ending sequence leaves plenty of room for another sequel.
[edit] Cast
- Raven-Symoné .... Galleria Garibaldi, also known as Bubbles
- Adrienne Bailon .... Chanel Simmons, also known as Chuchie
- Sabrina Bryan .... Dorinda Thomas, also known as Do (Do Re Mi)
- Kiely Williams .... Aquanette Walker, also known as Aqua
- Belinda Peregrín... Marisol Durán
- Lynn Whitfield .... Dorothea Garibaldi
- Lori Alter .... Juanita Simmons
- Kim Manning .... Lola Durán
- Golan Yosef .... Joaquin
- Peter Vives .... Angel
- Abel Folk .... Luc
[edit] Taglines
- "The Party's Just Begun!"
- "It's Cheetah-licious!"
- "Growl power!"
- "Cheetah Sisters"
- "It's About to Get Wild... Cheetah Style"
[edit] Soundtrack
The Cheetah Girls 2 soundtrack (amazon.com listing) is a diverse blend of Pop, Latin, Hip-Hop, R&B, and Rock music. The soundtrack was released on August 15, 2006.[2] The album debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200 and has so far spent four weeks at the top 10 on the charts and was recently certified Platinum. The Cheetah Girls started touring for the album on September 15, 2006.
[edit] Facts
The film was directed by Kenny Ortega who also directed High School Musical, and the script was written by writer/producer Felicia Henderson.
Grammy Award winning pop superstar Whitney Houston returns to executive produce this sequel as she did the first. Production began on March 12, 2006 in Barcelona, Spain, and continued for eight weeks.
[edit] Initial airdates
The movie premiered on August 25, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. EDT on the Disney Channel in the United States.[3] It was the 3rd So Hot Summer Disney Channel Original Movie for 2006.
- A pop-up version of the movie, with on-screen text boxes with notes and trivia, aired on November 25, 2006.[4]
It first aired in Canada on September 1, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. EDT on the Family Channel.
Its first airing in the UK was September 29, 2006 at 6:00 p.m. BST.
The Italian-language dub premiered on the Italian Disney Channel on December 2, 2006 at 3:00 p.m. CET.
It premiered in Mexico and Argentina on December 3, 2006 at 10:00 p.m. local time (UTC-6 and UTC-3, respectively) on Disney Channel Latin America.
- Sing-along version aired December 8, 2006 at 9:00 p.m. local times.
It premiered in Taiwan on December 8, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. Taiwan Time on Disney Channel Taiwan.
It premiered on Disney Channel South Africa on December 9, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. SAST.
It premiered in Poland on December 9, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.
It first aired in Brazil on December 10, 2006 at 10:00 p.m. (UTC-3).
It premiered on Disney Channel France, which also serves Belgium, on December 19, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. CET.
It premiered in Japan on January 1, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. JST on Disney Channel Japan.
It premiered in Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Republic of Palau, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam on January 27, 2007 and January 28, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. (HKT, MST, PST, SGT, et al) on Disney Channel Asia. On January 28, it will air back-to-back with the That's so Raven 100th episode and That's so Suite Life of Hannah Montana. Part of the Cheetahlicious Weekend.
It premiered on January 28, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. ACST on Disney Channel Australia.
[edit] DVD release
- The Cheetah Girls 2: Cheetah-Licious Edition was released on November 28, 2006. The Region 1 DVD includes Spanish audio tracks. [3]
[edit] Las Cheetah Girls 2 (Spanish Version)
- The role of Marisol Durán played by Mexican singer Belinda, was dubbed in Spanish by herself.
Various names are used for the Cheetah girls in Spanish:
- Las Cheetah Girls
- Cheetah Girls ( Disney Channel Latin America)
- Las Chicas Guepardo (Disney Channel Spain)
[edit] Translation oddities
(NOTE: It is highly unusual for something to be translated perfectly into another language; translations are often loose for the dialogue to make sense to the new audience)
- In the scene at The Dancing Cat, after Marisol and Chanel finished singing A La Nanita Nana, Lola asks if any of them speak Spanish (English version). In the Spanish version, Lola asks if any of them were part Hispanic.
- In one scene, Chanel and her mother dress up properly and wait for Luc's family. But after the family comes out of the van, they see the family dressed up casually. Chanel says (in the English version), "I could've at least worn flipflops." In the Spanish version, she says, "I should've worn the red gloves."
- When Galleria is trying to write a new song for the competition, she complains about learning a new song in Spanish, and how they couldn't sing in Spanish (Galleria says that their pronunciation of spanish is failing and discuss with Aqua about the song) . But they are obviously speaking Spanish. (This is not exactly a blooper, since it was translated from English.)
[edit] Trivia
- This movie is co-choreographed by Kenny Ortega, the choreographer of High School Musical, the third highest rated opening movie on Disney Channel.
- This movie was the highest rated DCOM until Jump In!
- Raven, who plays Galleria in the Cheetah Girls movies, was an executive producer for The Cheetah Girls 2.
- This movie had full length album versions of the songs in the movie, as opposed to the first one which didn't include the full length of the songs in the movies.
- The DVD debuted at #10 on Billboard's "Top DVD sales" chart.
- Peter Vives learned to play the guitar for the film, and it took him three weeks.
- During the "Strut" dance sequence, Adrienne Bailon's shoes kept slipping off her feet. The sequence was filmed with Bailon's feet out of the shot and she performed in barefeet, however she found it uncomfortable as she was walking on stone ground, so the crew taped her shoes to her feet.
- The movie received a total over 21 million viewers in the US alone.[1]
- All the scenes in the The Cheetah Girls 2 were shot in Barcelona, Spain.
[edit] Goofs
- During the filming of the "Strut" music video, one of Raven's boot heels broke.[citation needed]
- Aqua's name is frequently changing from Aquanette to Aquanetta. Aquanetta was what Galleria's father, Franco, called her in the Cheetah Girls book series
- In one part of the music video, Dorinda is holding a video camera. In the next scene she does not have it anymore. She is dancing with the other girls, and the video camera is nowhere to be seen.
- In scenes where two people have a conversation (such as when Galleria was at the train station) the camera shows the face of the person talking. In some scenes, hair switches from behind and front of the head.
- In "Step Up", before Dorinda arrives, Aqua ties her shoes and stands up. However, when Dorinda enters, Aqua is still sitting down.
- Before the Strut music video Galleria asks for a diet cola and the waiter comes out with a regular cola
- Outside Aramet & Randolph's shop it shows Aqua with 2 yellow bags, 1 blue, 1 green in one shot. Then in a following shot when it shows the dress that Dorothea points out it shows Aqua's bags going in reverse (1 green, 1 blue, 2 yellow). And then a few shots later when Randolph shakes Aqua's hand the bags are back in the first order (2 yellow, 1 blue, 1 green).
- At the final concert, a man and a woman are sitting in front of the Cheetah Girls' parents. When the camera comes in at another angle, two different women are in place of the couple. As the camera angle changes back to the original position, the man and woman are back.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Boedeker, Hal (2006-07-20). Disney learns lesson from 'High School'. Mickey News (from Orlando Sentinel). Retrieved on 2006-07-21.
- ^ Cheetah Girls 2 at All Music Guide
- ^ a b The Cheetah Girls 2 at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ The Cheetah Girls 2. Disney Channel. Retrieved on 2006-11-19.
[edit] External links
- Official page at Disney Channel (USA) (Flash-intensive)
- The Cheetah Girls 2 DVD Official Disney Website
- The Cheetah Girls 2 at the Internet Movie Database
- The Cheetah Girls fan site
[edit] International sites
- Disney Channel Argentina
- Disney Channel Asia
- Disney Channel Brazil
- Disney Channel France
- Disney Channel Italy
- Disney Channel Japan
- Disney Channel Mexico
- Disney Channel Spain
- Disney Channel Taiwan
- Disney Channel UK
- Family Channel (Canada)
| The Cheetah Girls |
| Members |
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| Adrienne Bailon | Sabrina Bryan | Kiely Williams |
| Movies |
| The Cheetah Girls | The Cheetah Girls 2 | The Cheetah Girls 3 |
| Discography |
| Cheetah-licious Christmas |
| Compilation albums |
| The Cheetah Girls | DisneyMania 3 | Chicken Little | DisneyMania 4 | The Cheetah Girls 2 | Disneymania 5 |
| Singles |
| " Cinderella" | " Girl Power" | "Cheetah Sisters" | "I Won't Say (I'm in Love)" | "Shake a Tail Feather" | "Cheetah-licious Christmas" | "Five More Days 'Til Christmas" | "If I Never Knew You" | "The Party's Just Begun" | " Strut" | " Step Up" | "Amigas Cheetahs" | "Route 66" |"So This is Love" | "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" |
| Misc |
| Tours | Video Game | Book series |
| Related Articles |
| 3LW | Raven-Symoné |
| Preceded by Read It and Weep |
Disney Channel Original Movies | Succeeded by Return to Halloweentown |
| Preceded by High School Musical |
Highest Rated Disney Channel Original Movie | Succeeded by Jump In! |
