Disney Channel Original Movies are a thing that alot of us grew up with with their movies being the right kind of strange and wonderfully Disney. The film that i'm about to review for you all today is a film that is s sugary sweet that you'll need a dentist appointment after watching it and it's also one of the films that stars a group that sadly never really went anywhere and so then join me as I review the film that sees some girls try to take Barcelona by storm with the film in question being called simply just "The Cheetah Girls 2" enjoy.
The plot of this film is The Cheetah Girls fly all the way to Barcelona to enter a music competition but find their friendship tested along the way. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time this films plot felt like the stereotypical Disney Channel Original Movie and nothing really all the more then that in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is one of this films producers Raven-Symoné as Galleria "Bubbles" Garibaldi and Adrienne Bailon as Chanel "Chuchie" Simmons. Also starring in this film is Sabrina Bryan as Dorinda "Do" Thomas , Kiely Williams as Aquanette "Aqua" Walker , singer Belinda as Marisol Durán , Kim Manning as Lola Durán , Lynn Whitfield as Dorothea Garibaldi , Lori Alter as Juanita Simmons , Golan Yosef as Joaquin , Peter Vives as Angel and Abel Folk as Luc.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty alot better then what it had any right to be. As nobody expects great acting from a Disney Channel Original Movie let alone that features a real life band in it as those don't typically have even good acting in them but when you have a director as good as High School Musical director Kenny Ortega someone who knows how to get a good performance out of his cast then it's no wonder that this film is filled to the brim with good performances.
Unlike alot of movies that feature a band as it's main cast of characters the band in this film actually formed after the first film. The band did go into to release some singles and albums but as a three piece band as Raven would only join them after they did the movies and not inbetween movies which to em just doesn't add up as it would have been easier to sell the singles and albums if it was all four girls and not just the three of them and sadly not long after the release of the third film the band went their separate ways to various degrees of success and it doesn't look like that they'll be getting back together anytime which is a shame because with the whole nostalgia kick that everyone is on right now right now would be the perfect time time to get the band back together again for either a one off special of even a Disney+ original movie really anything would do for that matter.
One of the things that I didn't like about this film is the fact that it has a very really predictable main villain. With the main villain of this film just being rather flat and boring as they do what they always do in these Disney Channel Original Movies and that's make her a good guy by the end of the movie which is a trope that I hate as it leaves us with no real villain and while the villain does have a solid motivation she's not really funny enough nor is she charming enough or even scary enough for that matter to be all that memorable with her instead coming across as being rather flat and two dimensional.
As a drama this film really doesn't work as the drama just felt rather forced and what makes this even worse is the fact that they resolve all their issues within a few minuets. When those issues would have been more then enough to support the entire movie thus the film doesn't really need to have a villain at all as all that does is add more drama when it really isn't needed which is a shame because if the film did have no villain and the film just focused on the girls and their issues it would have made for much more better film and heck you could still end the film with the big musical number at the music festival as that's what the whole entire film has been working towards.
This film is a musical which has songs written by Matthew Gerrard , Robbie Nevil , Jamie Houston , Ray Cham , Charlene Licera , Raven-Symoné and Will Robinson. I loved all of the songs in this film with all of the songs in this film being really fun poppy songs that were all really catchy and were all really sung as well with my all time favorite song from this film being "Amigas Cheetahs" which is a song that I have always loved as it is just a fun filled song that is really well sung from all four girls and it helps that it's also a really catchy song that will stay stuck in your head for sometime after watching the film.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty two minuets and thirty four seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for alot of Disney Channel Original Movies and it while this film doesn't have alot their interms of either plot or story to cover that amount of running time it's at least fun and charming enough to where you don't really notice the lack of story and as such this film really doesn't feel that long and isn't as dull and really as boring as you might think that it is and it helps that this film really does have some really good pacing to it as well.
So now then since this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad. As this film isn't that funny with this film including jokes that were funny back in 2006 but are now just painfully unfunny which is a shame as two of this films main cast members are really funny people but they still need funny things to say and sadly the writers of this film just didn't give any of the characters anything funny to actually say or do and so all we are left with is a comedy drama film that isn't really all that funny and has really bad drama init in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this film wasn't as funny as I remember it being but the songs are just as good if not better then what I remember them being with this film being a film that I highly recommend just due to how much fun this film is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that this very very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Disney fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the really wonderful Google Images as since all of the images that are currently up and featured / presented to us up and on the really great and wonderful on Google Images are all really fairly high in quality and as well as being all really fairly freaking high in definition.