The Cheetah Girls 2

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The Cheetah Girls 2
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

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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.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Cast

[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

Main article: The Cheetah Girls 2 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

[edit] DVD release

  • Flag of United States Flag of Canada 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

  1. ^ Boedeker, Hal (2006-07-20). Disney learns lesson from 'High School'. Mickey News (from Orlando Sentinel). Retrieved on 2006-07-21.
  2. ^ Cheetah Girls 2 at All Music Guide
  3. ^ a b The Cheetah Girls 2 at the Internet Movie Database
  4. ^ The Cheetah Girls 2. Disney Channel. Retrieved on 2006-11-19.

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The Cheetah Girls
Members
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


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