THE CHEETAH GIRLS 2

'''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 in Spain to pursue their dreams of pop superstardom.

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's mother [Juanita] is planning to go to Barcelona, Spain and wants Chanel to go with her to her boyfriend Luc's villa, 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, Dorethea, 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. 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 and she felt left out of the equation since Chanel, Aqua and Dorinda have made new friends have things to do.("It's Over") While at a train station, the other three girls find Galleria and sing the starting sequence of "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 after Chanel gives her permission and she gladly accepts. Luc tells Chanel that she can stay in New York for her upcoming senior year. But while performing the song Step up 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.

Cast

★ 'Raven-Symoné' .... Galleria Garibaldi, also known as Bubbles

★ 'Adrienne Bailon' .... Chanel Simmons, also known as Chuchie

★ 'Sabrina Bryan' .... Dorinda Thomas, also known as Doe

★ '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

Taglines

★ "The Party's Just Begun!"

★ "It's Cheetah-licious!"

★ "Girl power!"

★ "Cheetah Sisters"

★ "Cheetah Crazy!"
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Soundtrack

Main articles: 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.^[1] 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.

Tracklist

#The Party's Just Begun ::: Performed by The Cheetah Girls
#Strut ::: Performed by The Cheetah Girls featuring Peter Vives
#Dance With Me ::: Performed by Drew Seeley featuring Belinda
#Why Wait? ::: Performed by Belinda
#A La Nanita Nana ::: Performed by Adrienne Bailon & Belinda
#Do Your Own Thing ::: Performed by Raven-Symoné
#It's Over ::: Performed by The Cheetah Girls
#Step Up ::: Performed by The Cheetah Girls
#Amigas Cheetahs ::: Performed by The Cheetah Girls
#Cherish The Moment ::: Performed by The Cheetah Girls
#Cheetah Sisters (Barcelona mix) ::: Performed by The Cheetah Girls
#Everyone's A Star ::: Performed by Raven-Symoné
#It's gonna Be Alright ::: Performed by Raven-Symoné
#Studio session with The cheetah girls ::: Bonus video track

Special Edition

Facts

★ The film was directed by Kenny Ortega who also directed ''High School Musical'' and ''High School Musical 2'', and the script was written by writer/producer Felicia Henderson.

★ Ortega, Paul Harris and Charles Klapow choreographed the movie.

★ 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.

★ Originally subtitled "When in Spain".

★ 8.1 million people watched one the premiere night, beating the record of 7.7 million viewers of ''High School Musical''. It held the record until January 2007 when it was bested byJump In's premiere of 8.2 million viewers.

★ Galleria's room was built in a set from a warehouse since the apartments in Spain don't look anything like New York.

★ During the "Strut" sequence, the shoes of Adrienne Bailon kept falling off because she has small feet. The crew fixed the problem by taping her feet to the shoes.

★ Peter Vives Newey (Angel) is an accomplished pianist, but for the film he had to learn to play the guitar which took him three weeks to practice.

★ When Golan Yosef (Joaquin) drives the scooter, the crew had to push the vehicle since the machine didn't work.

★ Golan Yosef was a dancer. He was cast as Romeo in ''Romeo and Juliet'' when the casting director saw him and offered him a spot in the movie.

★ In the finale scene, the hat of Raven Symoné kept falling off, so the production team cut out the top and put the frame around her head.

Initial airdates

★ The movie premiered on August 25, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. EDT on the Disney Channel in the United States.^[2] It was the 3rd So Hot Summer Disney Channel Original Movie for 2006.

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★ A pop-up version of the movie, with on-screen text boxes with notes and trivia, aired on November 25, 2006.^[3]

★ 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.

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★ 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.

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★ Sing-along version premiered January 1, 2007 at 10:30 p.m. JST.

★ 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.

★ It will premiere on july 28,2007 at 11:00 a.m on Disney Channel India.

DVD release

★ ''The Cheetah Girls 2: Cheetah-Licious Edition'' was released on November 28 2006. The Region 1 DVD includes Spanish audio tracks. ²

★ ''The Cheetah Girls 2 - As Feras da Música'' DVD was released in Brazil on April 11, 2007

★ ''The Cheetah Girls 2: Cheetah-Licious Edition'' DVD was released in the UK on May 21, 2007.

★ ''The Cheetah Girls 2'' DVD was released in Italy on May 23, 2007, with audio tracks in Italian, German, English, Spanish and French and with extra features.^[4]

★ ''The Cheetah Girls 2: Cheetah-Licious Edition'' DVD will be released in Hong Kong on June 26, 2007. The Region 3 DVD includes audio tracks in English, Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese, and subtitles in English, Traditional Chinese, Malay, Indonesian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

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)

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.)

Trivia

★ In the book, her name is Dorinda Rogers, however, in the movie, her name is Dorinda Thomas.

★ This movie is co-choreographed by Kenny Ortega and Charles Klapow, the choreographers of ''High School Musical'' with English choreographer Paul Harris, (Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix), who was brought in to choreograph the Tango sequence.

★ This movie had the highest rated DCOM opening 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, so the crew taped her shoes to her feet.

★ While filming "Amigas Cheetahs", it rained all over the stage. They had to wait until all the rain dried off to continue filming.

★ While dancing in "Amigas Cheetahs", Raven-Symoné's hat kept falling off. To stop this from happening, the crew cut the top part of the hat so it'd stay on her head.

★ The movie received a total over 30 million viewers in the US alone. (as of 2007)[1]

★ All the scenes in the movie were shot in Barcelona, Spain.

★ In Italy Ambra Lo Faro sang the Italian version of The Party's Just Begun, named "La festa è intorno a noi" ( The party is around us).

★ When the film re-aired on Disney Channel in the United States in September 2006, the Spanish version(with English subtitles) was shown first, then the English version (with Spanish subtitles). For these language versions, it was broadcast in widescreen.

★ All of the songs in the U.K version of the The Cheetah Girls 2 speed rate is 1.2, However on the soundtrack the playrate is 1. If you have Windows Media Player you can use WOW effects and change the speed rate.

Sequel

A sequel, '', will be released in 2008. It was confirmed by Adrienne Bailon. It is going to be filmed in India around the premise of a Bollywood film. It has been confirmed, however, that Raven will not return for the 3rd film.

Goofs

★ During the filming of the "Strut" music video, one of Raven's heel breaks.

★ 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.

★ 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.

★ Towards the end of the song "Amigas Cheetahs" the girls take there final bows and wave to the audience. However, the track of their voices keeps playing and the girl's lips aren't moving.

★ During 'Amigas Cheetahs', Chanel exclaims "Barcelona, help me bring out mi amiga Cheetah - Marisol!". As she says this however, her voice can be heard singing the line "Friends for life...".

References

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External links

★ Official page at Disney Channel (USA) (Flash-intensive)

★ The Cheetah Girls 2 DVD Official Disney Website

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★ The Cheetah Girls fan site

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