Drake & Josh Go Hollywood
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| Directed by | Steve Hoefer |
| Produced by | Dan Schneider Robin Weiner Joe Catania |
| Written by | Dan Schneider |
| Starring | Drake Bell Josh Peck Miranda Cosgrove Nancy Sullivan Jonathan Goldstein |
| Music by | Michael Corcoran |
| Cinematography | Mike Spodnik |
| Editing by | Marc Lamphear Skip Collector |
| Distributed by | Nickelodeon |
| Release date(s) | January 6, 2006 |
| Running time | 73 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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Drake & Josh Go Hollywood is a hour and thirteen minute TV movie starring Drake Bell as Drake Parker and Josh Peck as Josh Nichols from the Nickelodeon television series Drake & Josh. The movie first aired on January 6th, 2006 and was released on DVD on January 31st, 2006. The movie premiered on Nickelodeon UK on October 26th, 2006, The Movie Premiered on Nickelodeon Israel on September 19th, 2006 and premiered on YTV on November 19th, 2006.
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[edit] Cast
- Drake Bell as Drake Parker
- Josh Peck as Josh Nichols
- Miranda Cosgrove as Megan Parker
- Nancy Sullivan as Audrey Parker-Nichols
- Jonathan Goldstein as Walter Nichols
- Matt Newton as Deegan
- Nick von Esmarch as Brice Granger
- John J. York as Milo McCrary
- Jorge Luis Abreu as the limousine driver
- Jordan Belfi as the MTV talent booker
- Ajay Vidure as the taxi driver
- Michael Ralph as the police chief
- Tony Hawk as himself
[edit] Plot
Drake and Josh's parents leave to go on a ten-day cruise, leaving Drake and Josh in charge. Drake fires his band manager and Josh convinces Drake to let him become the new manager of Drake's rock band, which Drake is very reluctant to do. The two drive their little sister, Megan (played by Miranda Cosgrove), to the airport so she can board a plane to Denver (flight 746) to visit her friend. She accidentally ends up on a plane flying to Los Angeles (flight 647) instead. Her brothers find out the mistake and follow her on another plane. Upon arriving in Los Angeles, Megan uses her parents' credit card to order a limousine to take her to an expensive hotel and book a presidential suite.
On the plane, Josh's G-O (a digital audio player very similar to the iPod) is accidentally swapped with another person's-who turns out to be a criminal carrying information on his G-O's hard drive that will enable him to use a currency printing machine stolen from the United States Department of the Treasury to print counterfeit bills.
When the brothers arrive in Los Angeles, Drake goes to find their sister while Josh goes to the men's room. In the men's room, he overhears a man's cell phone conversation in which he is saying how he desperately needs a musical act for MTV's TRL. Josh convinces him to hire Drake's band. When he gets to the presidential suite that his sister Megan checked into, he tells Drake the good news. In order to decide what song Drake should play on the show, Josh attempts to listen to Drake's songs by connecting his G-O to his laptop. Instead, he discovers United States Department of the Treasury software and information including a high-definition image of a hundred-dollar bill.
At this moment, several criminals enter the suite and attempt to take the G-O. The brothers manage to escape with the player in Josh's possession by stealing Tony Hawk's red Viper sports car that was parked in front of the hotel with the keys in it. After a chase through Los Angeles, the criminals manage to capture the brothers by impersonating FBI agents.
Megan finds them, discovers the counterfeiters' plot and manages to save them by turning on large conveniently-placed electric fans to scatter piles of counterfeit currency and by calling the LAPD on her cell phone. As thanks for their roles in the capture of the criminals, Drake and Josh are given a police escort to Sunset Studios in Hawk's Viper, enabling them to get on the set of TRL mere moments before showtime. After the successful broadcast, the man who booked Drake tells him he has talent and asks him to go to New York for a record deal. Two girls come to say that Drake was awesome and get to spend the day with Drake and Josh.
[edit] Music
Along with the music composed for the film by Michael Corcoran, there were several songs featured in the movie.
- "Steppin' Out" – Safety Orange
- "To Save a Man" – Safety Orange
- "Boyz" – Saucy Monky
- "Find Your Own" – A Million Seeds
- "A Little Bit Lonely" – Julie Gribble
- "It's True" – Odds Against Tomorrow
- "Hollywood Girl" – Drake Bell
- "Don't Preach" – Drake Bell
- "Get It Right" – Backhouse Mike
- "Highway To Nowhere" – Drake Bell
- "Summer Sun" – Safety
[edit] Trivia
- The credits include footage of Drake and Josh driving Tony Hawk's car through Hollywood with two girls they picked up after the show on their laps. Hawk also made a small cameo appearance in the movie which made a refence to his video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
- According to TV Guide, when this movie first aired it was the highest rated program on all of cable for the week. In its second airing, it was number two, and its third, number three.
- This is the only Drake & Josh episode in widescreen format, and the only one that did not have a laugh track, although this may be attributed to the fact that it is more of a movie than an episode. Also, this was the first time the setting takes place outside of San Diego.
- On one part, you could see Drake playing a PlayStation Portable. On the second part, you see Megan in the plane, also playing a PSP. It is a possibility that Nickelodeon had the rights to use Sony Playstation products for this TV movie only. (The series uses a lot of fake brand names, ex. "Pintendo GS" is actually a Nintendo DS).
- In the scene where Drake and his band are playing at the B'Nai Shalom Home for the Elderly, When he was singing he said "You say that I'm nothing and lousy." But in the original version he says "You say that I suck and I'm lousy."
- In the bathroom scene where Josh shows the TRL Talent Drake's band footage, that was actually a scene from Zoey 101.
- Drake uses a Gibson Les Paul Classic in this movie.
- Megan's phone is an Audiovox "Snapper" from Virgin Mobile.
- It is believed that in homage to PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines), San Diego's hometown airline, the airline that Megan, Drake and Josh use is called Pacific Air. However,the aircraft that Drake and Josh are boarding is a 737-300 in Southwest Airlines livery.
- The aircraft Megan flew was first shown to be a Boeing 737-300. However, when the aircraft shown touching down at LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) was an American Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-11 and the aircraft shown taxiing down was a Continental Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-80.
- When Megan says there is an oncoming truck, there is a horn. When they pass there is no truck or any other vehicle coming in their direction.
