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To India, with music and dancing
All too often, sequels are pale imitations of original movies. By
the time a franchise hobbles to its third installment, it often feels
like outtakes from the first two films.
Disney Channel’s “The Cheetah Girls: One World” Friday,
Aug. 22, is a pleasant exception. The movie has the Cheetah
Girls hallmarks: high energy, singing, dancing and a girl power
message. It’s also more entertaining than the first two, the singing
and dancing have improved, and it’s stunning.
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Shot in India, the costumes alone could carry this film. Usually,
what we see about India is the grinding poverty, which isn’t even
hinted at here. Instead, this is a celebration of Bollywood,
elephants, Indian music, dance and fashion.
The Cheetah Girls are now three: Adrienne Bailon plays
Chanel; Sabrina Bryan, Dorinda; and Kiely Williams, Aquanetta.
Raven-Symone, who played Galleria, is gone.
“Raven has her own brand now,” executive producer Debra
Martin Chase says. “And the Cheetah Girls have
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Hometown: Kingston, Ontario.
Movies: “Hard Cote Logo,” “Down to the Bone.”
TV: “The Gathering,” “Degrassi: The Next Generation.”
Musical careen Plays harmonica, guitar and sings
and has six albums with a band and one on his
own. ‘When I signed with Universal, I
. could play five chords,” he says.
Best dish he cooks: “It’s summer; I
barbecue a lot and I make a
wicked flank steak,” he says.
Significant other: Artist
Midori Fujiwara. “She’s
stood by me for years and
got me into rehab after
rehab. If it weren’t for her, I
‘ would not be here.”
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become -1 mean these girls went on tour for - had a sold-out
90-day, one of the top touts of 2006. It just became hard to
merge the two brands.”
Galleria’s absence is explained early on - she’s studying at
Cambridge. That expository bit of dialogue illustrates why this
series is great for girls. She is a star, yet she is working hard at her
education.
The others are also on the precipice of major changes: They just
graduated from high school, and college looms. They blow an
audition and waffle over continuing their careers.
They wind up auditioning for Vik (Michael Steger), who’s
directing a Bollywood movie for his uncle, a producer. Vik is the
only miscast character. While it’s wonderful to be colorblind, and
obviously many roles can be played by anyone, this part calls for
the actor to be Indian, and he is not.
That aside, the movie is a delightful romp. The girls go to
India, thinking they are going to star in his picture. When the
girls arrive in India, they discover Vik’s uncle (Roshan Seth, “A
Passage to India”) only wants one girl, and he pits them
against one another.
“The movie is actually not so much about
competition as it is the three of us feeing the
inevitable change that comes with getting older and
something don’t that we are slighdy unprepared for,” Williams
says. “We really know what the future holds for us
and how we re actually going to stay together when we’re
going off to different schools and, you know, our lives are
taking us in different directions.”
“The story line is very realistic,” Bryan adds. “When
I girls graduate from high school, everyone kind of goes all
over the map as fer as where they’re going to school and
§ what they’re going to do with their lives, and it’s the true
friendships that continuously hold on.”
Sabrina Bryan, Kiely Williams and Adrienne
Bailon (from left) star in "The Cheetah Girls: One
World" Friday on Disney Channel.
Bands: The Ramones,
The Sex Pistols.
Movies: “ ‘Easy Rider,’ I
think because it had such
a great soundtrack and it
was the original indie film.
I like movies that say
something, Apocalypse
Now,’ ‘The Godfether.’ ”
Books: “I always want to
say something f—ing
pretentious. There’s a great
book people need to read,
‘Going Postal.’ It’s about
all those people, who
went and shot places up
and why they did it.
Irvine Welsh’s
Before Trainspotting.’ Why?
it was a movie.
and before it was popular
I pulled it out of the
bookstore because of a
bizarre skull on the front
of it.
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