Look at you know you're in.

Yeah, you're in your outfit.

It looks just like the one you had.

I cannot believe the stitches are still here.

Guys, it's the real one.

This isn't this is from?

Like when did we film this movie?

I don't know.

I was right two thousand and eight.

I mean, in like, how many years is it going to be twenty years old?

Yeah, it's almost twenty years old.

Don't even get me started.

I can't handle it.

Oh my gosh.

But yeah, so I actually this was my little jumpsuit.

I've always loved like sets of little cute little jumpsuit outfits and the thought and we're looking for one like it with the bright colors and all of that, and couldn't find anything.

So I just brought this to India and we were but they did have to put, you know, cover the logo and things like that, which now over the years you can still see where the scene was.

I probably just kept it on.

You should have kept it on there, I know.

So yes, I will say this was working with Mona may Are costume designer.

Like everything that was coming out, there's only one outfit that I just like cringe over and of course it's the one I'm in, so but like just the dream of working with her.

She's just so incredible, and it was this movie was different for me.

I mean, I was scared.

So we've done three.

I was scared on the first one because I just knew how not as big of like production value and all that kind of stuff with the first one, and like, you know, the storyline and just like kind of going like this was like our first thing.

You know, sure you had no idea what it was going to be at this point.

The second one is just filled with so many incredible memories and it was like the height of the cheatings.

And then this one, I sort of got a little emotional as I was watching it because this was sort of the last like big memories that I have.

You know, it was our last movie, and it was wasn't known whether or not it would be our last movie at that time, but those are like my memories of us being so excited and loving it and having so much happening during this time and all of our lives.

I had just done Dancing with the Stars, you know, we had so much going on.

We had just released our own album that wasn't a soundtrack.

It was a Cheetah Girls album from us as like a girl group, but then at the same time knowing like these were kind of the last of our like really cool adventures, you know, and we went on tour after this, but this was kind of the start of the last.

So I got a little emotional here and there, like not to mention, there's a ton of ballads in here.

Why are we so sad?

The whole movie?

You're sad the whole movie.

You're walking quite a bit.

We'll get into that.

You walk quite a lot, you all trying to get your steps in as you're doing it.

And also the whole movie through me because I, frankly for years thought you've been telling me that you shot in Indiana.

So that is completely different than what I was expecting.

That was shocking.

But we might as well welcome everybody back first, So welcome back to Magical rewind Happy New Year's everybody.

This is the show that makes you want to grab your friends, your pjs, and your popcorn and go back to a time when all the houses are smart, the.

Waves, tsunamis, and the high School's musical.

I'm Wilford Dell and I'm Sabrina Bryan And yes, like I said, it is a new year, but it's not a new franchise.

It's one that we love here at Magical Rewine and we're wrapping it up.

It's time to cheat a chatter.

Our way to a three quel.

Still sounds weird in my ears when I say that, because once again we're looking at Sabrina's iconic character, Dorinda, but now in India, So maybe Dorindia is the name.

From now on, Let's party with the two thousand and eight musical coming of age drama that Cheetah Girls colon One World.

Love it, Sabrina.

I know you have been jonesing to eventually get to One World, but please remind everyone where does number three sit when you're putting your favorite Cheetah Girls movies in order.

I don't really have a one, two three.

I have a favorite, which is the second one in Barcelona, hands down, but I don't have I think it's a tie between the first and the third.

I love them for different reasons.

The first one really was the start.

It was my biggest thing I had ever booked, so that's just like a milestone for me personally, and then of course for the Cheetah you know, Cheetah Nation.

It was the beginning of something that was bigger than we could have ever ever dreamed it being.

Right.

And then now you're we're on the third movie.

And by this time the Cheetah Girls had done so much.

We had a great second movie.

We went on a giant tour.

We circled back around throughout the States three times.

We extended our tour three or four times because we just kept selling out and the numbers were just insane.

At this point, we had done we had sold out the Houston Rodeo in three minutes.

I mean, we'd be Elvis's record, We'd be the Rolling Stones merch record.

I mean, we were just like it was just huge.

And one of our biggest accomplishments was doing an album outside of the movies.

So it wasn't a soundtrack, it didn't have a storyline.

It was music that we were in the you know, like a regular girl group going on.

At this point.

Yeah, and we were writing and we were helping produce, and we were just doing so much.

We with our tours we were given This is what I'm just so grateful with the Channel four, Like the ability to have like artistic directing of a tour of a giant tour.

It was like, now on our resumes.

Oh, you didn't ask me, but I'm going to answer the Okay.

Direct answer to me is okay, the second one is the best.

Okay, this last one because you're my friend and essentially you kind of I even texted you, you kind of took over like the lead role of the movie.

I thought, how has he seen that?

Because I just thought you were like, they gave you so much more to do kind of the heart and soul of the film.

So I big fan of that obviously because you're my friend.

So that so the last one and then number one would be the third one in my opinion, and they're all good.

Yeah, I definitely see the difference in production and you just.

See, well, how did you feel when you first heard that you were going to India?

So okay, I.

Want to be really honest.

This movie came out the same year that Slumdog Millionaire came out.

Before very different images of India.

This was like, come visit India, right, and the slum Dog was kind of more so the reality of what we kind of saw a little bit more hands on.

But before that I knew a tiny bit of Bollywood stuff.

Other than that, I really didn't know a whole lot of what it would be like to live in India, what it would be like to go visit.

I've always heard from people that have gone say it's like this gorgeous, most magical place, which I think is different if you go visit somethingwhere like that for like five to seven days and working there.

But I was excited that we again it felt like the movies because we worked so hard on tours and albums and that all the other stuff.

The movies always felt like the prize, like and here you go, we're gonna have you guys, go have fun and do a movie.

Right, but three months that's a long shoot.

Yeah, but like that's what it felt like, like, Oh, we worked so hard and we did our last tour was so went so well that this was like our prize, Like you guys get to go shoot a movie in India and we're like cool, Like yes, if it's anything like Barcelona, I'm so dumb.

So pronounce these for me then, because you filmed in is it dpur.

Udaipur and Mumbai right by, Yes, Udaipur, I take it is where the water was in the nice uh castle kind of setting was right, yeah, so you know.

What, I was trying to figure it out.

So we mainly were in moon By there what there was one other thing and I don't remember what it was called, And I'm sure Kiley Will would hit me with the answer so fast.

She was so knowledgeable.

Her character is very much like Aqua.

She's like a bookworm, and like when we were in India, she had all the like knowledge of oh, you know this, that, this, you know whatever.

And there was a village that we went out to and we shot there for like six or seven and I feel like the when we did that, that's when we went to Holly in the movie.

Right, that was like a separate location.

Okay, would I pour maybe worth more the water, but we that water like where we were that was being shot from the water with the amazing like castle in the back.

That was a water taxi we could get on from like our hotel, like right, boy.

From oh okay, oh cool?

Oh man, Okay, well, well I got we got to get into it because it's gonna be fun.

So here we go.

Everybody, that's right, it is Cheata Girls Colon one World.

I won't say colon every time, just it's just there, so it's hard not.

To say it.

It was released on August twenty second, two thousand and eight.

To One World is the third and final movie of the Cheetah Girls trilogy, and it reportedly cost a whopping twenty five million dollars to make.

People.

Yes, did you obviously said it felt more expensive?

Right?

Oh?

Yeah?

Yeah?

Oh yo, oh yeah.

When's the last time you watched it before the podcast?

Oh?

I think the only thing I've watched since probably, let's call it, like a year or two after it premiered, was watching Like Dance Me If you Can, which is one of my favorite musicals that we did.

I'm not even gonna tell you, Okay, we'll get into it, okay.

And then and then also the finale one World.

Those are things that I've shown Monroe, my daughter, because she like really got into ele elephants for a minute, and so I was like, mommy got to ride one.

And then there's a little YouTube video that I did of me meeting the elephant, which is super embarrassing but sort of freak out.

But yeah, well, yeah, you're also the only one holding on for Dear Life from the top of the thing.

Everybody else is like waving like this.

You got like one one grip on this thing.

You got like the Shane I've like hooked to my ankle, holding on.

For dear life.

Yes, so yeah, so really not the movie.

It's not the movie itself for I mean, at least, like I said, two or three years out of the premiere.

Okay, Well, back when it did premiere on the Disney Channel, it was of course a massive hit, reaching seven million viewers and topping all the charts for the night.

You can't obviously talk about the Cheeahirls movie without getting into the soundtrack, which we were just talking about.

It was released in conjunction love that word with the premiere and has a great mix of the poppy expect now with some kind of Bollywood influence.

We also have two solo tracks from Adrian, one from Keighley and one from our solo girl here Sabrina Bryan called Crazy on the dance Floor.

The soundtrack reached number thirteen on the US Billboard Top two hundred, which is crazy, number two for US kid albums and number three for US Top soundtracks.

Pretty damn good.

Did you like having your own song?

Finally I did.

I mean to me, I'm such a like I love the aspect of a team.

I don't think I necessarily needed it.

And that's something I really want to like call and talk to Keeley about because I'm like, why did they have us do that?

Because I know they're very much into that?

Was that to like, I don't remember where that came from, like you know, and I love that they.

Maybe they're seeing if a song hits and then it's like, if it does, let's take that one solo.

I mean, I have no idea.

I don't know what the reasoning of it was, except for I know that like if they were gonna maybe it was that they wanted Adrian to have one and then they but they still wanted us to have the opportunity to do it too, which is really sweet.

I just can't remember.

Well, I should know.

I'll tell you all about your movie because we've done the reasons okay, and by we I mean our producers.

I haven't even watched it.

Oh great, I'm kidding.

Well, just like it's two predecessors, Cheetah Girls three, One World is available to stream right now and Disney Plus.

You can watch it now or later, that's up to you.

But either way, you're making Sabrina somewhere around a tenth of a cent.

So thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

All right, So everybody go out there, find your Ganess statue and tie a string around a tree.

Wishes are coming true with our synopsis Chanelle, Aqua and Derinda, but she's my friend, so I just call her.

Dough travel to India for their last summer before college, only to find they must compete against each other for the single lead role in a Bollywood movie.

As the girls juggle stardom, romance, and culture clashes, their friendship and bonds are tested like never before.

Well I'm gonna give my opinion too.

But now watching it over fifteen years later, what did you think, Sabrina?

Did you like it?

I thought we looked great.

I love Nay in the sense of Mona May's style that she had throughout the movie, and I love how we eventually get so much of that balywould influence even with the fashion.

But I felt like everything in this movie.

But I feel this way about the second movie, not so much on that first one.

It shot so beautifully.

Drop is like it say.

Yeah, it's beautiful to watch.

Certainly it was so gorgeous and that you know, uh I, I know, I've talked to Paul Howan so many times, but he was just like, it was like going into like just a portrait studio of the most gorgeous like backdrops to ever be able to film in front of.

So I mean, I that was really what I forgot how gorgeous it was.

And then it was like, oh my gosh, that wasn't made up at all.

This is really what I was living in for like over months.

That's an incredible way to not answer the question.

Oh what did I think of the movie?

So here's the thing.

It was a totally different vibe for me watching it, since it doesn't feel like that long ago that we watched the second movie.

Sure, you know, I thought I thought it was good.

I liked it.

It really was a good representation of kind of where we were.

But I can't lie.

I miss Ravens crazy out of this world humor in it.

There was an aspect of her comedy that she brings this to the to the screen is just so vibrant and so good that I was like, it just it's hard to go gosh, I wonder what it would have been if it was the four of us, which is what I think anything that happens with the Cheated Girls should be.

It's the four of us that that dynamic on screen is just something you just can't deny.

I don't disagree.

I miss her two.

I liked that you had more to do.

I thought that was great, and you're right, it's gorgeous to look at.

So we have a new director, our third name in the three movies, which is pretty crazy.

We haven't seen that in any of the other franchises.

This time Disney called in the Big Guns the dcom daddy himself, one of our good magical rewind pals, Paul Howen Or has I loved to call him bad to the Hoen I don't, but it's great.

He is, of course a Disney master and maybe the most prolific director in the channel's history with decoms like just mouth along with us people, because we've said it so many times.

Eddie's million dollar cookoff, the Luck of the Irish jump in Let it Shine, True Confessions, and he's currently the creative force behind a modern day cash cow, the Zombies franchise.

He is to d coms what the Dodgers are to superstar Japanese players, and we see three of the four Cheetah Girls return.

Let's kick it off with Adrian Bylan aka.

Channel I'm kidding Chanelle.

Adrian It is an original member of the R and B Group three LW and appears in another dcom we recapped Buffalo Dreams, which was like being on acid.

She'd go on to have her own solo musical career and appear on That's So Raven, The Sweet Life of Zach and Cody, and in the movie Coach Carter.

Great movie.

But our favorite Cheetah Girl is my friend and yours.

Sabrina Bryan who returns is Derinda, the Orange County native toward the world as part of the record breaking group, then took her skills to the ballroom to become one of the most beloved and unfairly eliminated Dancing with the Stars contestants of all time.

And now she hosts some podcasts whatever, And of course Kihlee Williams is Aqua, another member of the R and B Group three l W.

She also appears in the movies The House Bunny, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and Stomp The yard too.

I know you guys are still very close.

Do you talk a lot?

I dial?

I do?

Is she gonna come back and join us at some point?

I think she's gonna.

Okay, good, okay, good, because I've got many many questions.

Oh yes, I'm sure and joining the cast.

As Uncle Kamal.

With the surroundings of India.

We have Rashawn Seth, a British actor out of New Delhi who had a prolific career in theater and then was asked by Richard Attenborough to play Pandit Nharu in nineteen eighty two's Gandhi.

He would also appear in Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom Where is Awesome, and then play Dollisom in the nineteen ninety four cinematic version of Street Fighter.

Not a good movie, but he was great.

Oh man, anytime you get I'm not gonna get into it.

You get Jean Claude Van Dam as a video game character.

It's not always a recipe for a great film.

He'd also most recently show up in Tim Burton's retelling of Dumbo and Michael Steeger plays Victim or vic.

He was part of the Disney Channel Universe, appearing on Hannah Montana and Corey in the House, and would later play a lead in the two thousands reboot of nine O two and zero and guest star on Grey's Anatomy, where he played the anatomy.

And uh that's not true.

I've never seen that show once, but I assume somebody else plays the anatomy.

And so many local actors appear in the film.

Shooting in India made for some amazing opportunity for actors and dancers there.

What was it like working with the local talent?

I mean, were they like, Wow, this is the coolest thing we get to be in an American Disney Channel movie or were they or were they like we do this all the time.

Just pay attention and we'll show you what to do.

Uh No, they were so sweet.

I'm gonna say I have to take a moment to talk about the entire crew and how incredible they were, and it's just so happy to be there.

And it was always like our filming areas wherever we were filming was packed.

What like here in America, for one person to have a job would be like three or four of them that were covering it.

I mean it was you know, the sun's very bright and very harsh, so I had someone there just holding an umbrella.

And anytime, anytime I'd be like, hey, you know, let me give you a break.

I can hold my umbrella.

They're like no, no, no, no, no.

And then, you know, like I said, there was just so many people.

Like a lighting rig you know, that was getting put up, where there would be maybe three or four guys, there was ten, and there was just so our sets were just so packed with people, and that it came with it was fun.

It was like, I mean we were walking around with a crew, like a crew, you know, and when we were at rehearsals, I mean, these dancers were ready to be there from the second the sun glistened in the sky till the very end of night, you know, one to two am, if that's what was gonna take.

They worked so hard and made our jobs so easy because when we'd get put into certain things, they'd been rehearsing so much that it was like a breeze, you know.

And they were just always so sweet and it was so much fun.

And then of course working with you know some of the like local like the ones you know, the actresses and the actors.

They were so excited for this opportunity to be on the channel.

They they just felt like this was going to be something really big, and I, you know, I really do hope that it ended up being just everything that they wanted, because they.

Don't yeah, because they shoot so many movies there that it's probably they're like this is old hat to them.

But I love it.

Well.

I remember the very first night we were driving on one of the like ads or someone one of the crew was in the car and was like, you were on Dancing with the Stars is what they called in the States, right, And I said yeah, And they're like, see that Hummer and they're like he just won the Dancing with the Stars here in India.

That that guy.

Oh cool.

And it was like and his car was all lit up.

There was like like and it was just really cool that they like that instantly, within the first couple of days, there was like a connection.

That's all very cool.

Yeah, now you have to listen just because our Sabrina is in this movie.

When it comes to run time, we're not gonna let anything slide.

So we have to hold her to the same standards we do for all of our d coms.

We are journalists, after all.

If it's over ninety minutes, we're forced to ridicule the film and disowner as a friend, and so Cheetah Girls.

One World is eighty eight minutes log people too, off target, but on the perfect side of history, two minutes short, and so we go into the recap with open hearts and an understanding that Paul Hohen and everyone involved our heroes Sabrina nice job.

When it comes to writers, we have four credits and we start with a name we often mentioned here in the podcast, and that is Dan Berenson.

He is a dcom regular who got his start on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, then would collaborate with Disney on his first d com, Up, Up and Away with Robert Townsend.

From there, he'd become a go to name with the Scream Team, Eddie's Million Dollar Cookoff, Stuck in the Suburbs, Pop Brocks, Halloween Town High, Twitches and Falling Asleep in the middle of this list because it's so long, Twitches too, and Montana the movie The Wizards of Waverley placed the movie Camp Rock to teen teen Beach.

Very impressive.

My god, this man has written everything.

Then we have Deborah Gregory, the author who wrote the Cheaty Girls series of books originally, so she gets it created by credit.

And then we have two new names, Nisha Ganatra, a Golden Globe winning writer and season TV director who won for her work on Transparent and also recently directed the Mini Kaling movie Late Night and the twenty twenty five dcom Freaky or Friday.

And finally we have Jen Small.

This is her only writing credit.

It is not a real dcom unless there's one writer with no other credits that we've never heard of.

Again, and so it's so true.

Let's dig a little deeper and stand up to fly away.

What if I'm the one and get crazy on the dance floor, Well, then we've got that cheetah love.

Let's get into one world right now.

Even watching the movie, I didn't understand half of what I just said.

We open in what is clearly not India.

It's New York City sirens and taxi horns, Times Square and Radio City Music Hall.

We see the Chetah girls doing their makeup at their vanity mirrors.

And this is where I was worried already, because they showed two of the cheetahirls not you on the little sticky notes, and I was like, well that pissed me off.

And it's all to the newest song, Cheatah Love.

They sing all about the Cheetah Girl unity, sticking together through even the hardest of times, and knowing they will always be there for each other.

The girls continue to perform, now to a live audience that has sold out concert a lot of wind machines.

Here, did your lips get chapped?

They dry out your eyes because as.

We're dry, you've had a sore throat from just trying to sing.

It was a stata, so it was a okay even though it was an F four on the Fujita scale of wind.

You were absolutely vine.

The song ends in the crowd goes wild, but we transition onto a much different stage.

Chanelle is still rocking out like it's a high budget MTV music video, but now they're just in an empty room.

She appears to be having some sort of a psychotic episode because she really believes she was performing in front of thousands of fans and maybe we should just get her into therapy immediately.

She should try better help, which is wonderful, but the girls snapper out of it.

They've actually been performing for just one man in a dimly lit auditorium, an agent who looks exactly like the comic book villain Kingpin.

He is not impressed.

The girls say they're working out the kinks.

They used to be a foursome, but Galeria got into Cambridge and left the band.

Okay, one way to do it.

They just did it with one sentence.

As you know, the Beatles used to have another member, but he went to summer school and never came back.

Kingpinn says that's not true.

By the way, Sabriena, you know that, I know, I know.

It was John, Paul, George Ringo and Steve, but Steve got into ky.

Katepin says to call him when they get their act together and leaves the Cheetahs feel Cheatah hopeless.

Doe notices that Aqua's laptop is a mess, just so she can flirt with a tech guy named Kevin.

Also, we find out that Derinda and her hot Spanish boyfriend Joaquin have broken up.

He broke up with her because of the time difference in phone bills, but she's cool with it.

She's also hungry for the record.

I do they really say he broke up with you, don't they say that you're just broken up.

I don't think they actually pointed.

Out, Oh no, it was just kind of like, you know, yeah, she's tried to explain, and she just said it's because you know, it's trying difference.

They couldn't.

They basically, you're communicate different really young, like.

Yeah, yeah, you're twenty two and live in different They.

Were gonna get married, my goodness.

Too old for Disney Channel, too young for marriage.

They pick Indian food, and Derinda is spooked by a nearby statue of Ganesh, the Elephant, the remover of obstacles.

They tell their waitress that they need Ganesh because they've only been running into obstacles these days.

No agent, no work, and no singing career.

The waitress praise to Ganesh for them and says they just need some faith.

The girls realize they have two months until college and that will make rehearsing even harder.

It's now or never.

With college prep classes and dance camp this summer, it feels like they're being forced to give up their Cheetah dreams.

And then Chanelle's phone rings.

The Cheetah Girls are being asked to audition for a huge Hollywood musical.

So help me out here in the lexicon of the Cheetah Girls, where are they?

Wise?

They're still in high school about to graduate, but there are they releasing music?

Do they have a record deal?

Where are where are they now?

After the second one?

So they're basically and that's what it's saying, like we've been on so many auditions.

They're trying to get hired for gigs, whether it's their own show, you know, like their spot on you know, like it's like a small gig thing like what I would assume we were reaching for, Like you know what the Jonas brothers got to do a lot before they got like their real big gotcha opportunity.

So do you want the twelve of you in a van?

Are the the three of you in a van with with your family going from together?

I feel like they're just auditioning for gigs like that places to just be able to perform and all that stuff.

I couldn't remember how the second.

Well, remember they like no one won the festival.

Right, it was congratulations nobody wins.

Yeah, So I think it's just their home they're still in.

They haven't gone off to college.

Yet they're still in high school.

And then they're still trying to make it work.

They're still grounding to yeah, wanting to try to make something of the Cheetah grin.

Okay, Well, they're very excited about the possibility of being cast in a movie, but Chanelle doesn't even remember what it's about.

But who cares.

They're gonna be in a movie.

And then we get our next song right there in the Indian restaurant.

It's Dig a Little Deeper, and the Cheetahs dance around table to table.

The paying customers seem to love the track, even dancing along.

Where does this one sit for you?

Did you like Dig a Little Deeper?

I did like the song.

It was a little funky dancing in that restaurant for some reason.

But also and they didn't show it at least went from watching Disney.

Plus we during that time barely got through those lines and that entire scene, like there's like a whole laughing yes, we were in I don't know if it was a night shoot or what, but we were so giddy and Paul was just like, oh my god, girls like get it together, Like couldn't get through those scenes.

It took us so long to get through those speaking scenes, and I think then we did the dancing like part portion either after or the next day, so it was kind of like our fault.

We're we were so timed and I just read.

So it's funny because it was like pop not my favorite of all of the music on this third movie, but had the best time doing it because we were cracking up the majority of the time we were.

Well, let me ask you a question with as a dancer, if I were to put on the song right now, just cold, could you remember the dance.

Uh parts of it?

Yeah?

Okay, God, so funny.

Well, we're gonna have to see that when I get up when we do the chairs that come out of nowhere that are just perfectly lined up for the three of course go on right, which I know is probably your favorite aspect of it's a musical.

You just gotta love musical, Sabrina.

I remember because Fatima Robson's she's incredible, she's black eyed peas and her she's incredible choreographer.

But I remember her.

We got up and did this like quick, quick, like it was like step up, a quick click down, and I just like running a marathon.

I don't know so tired.

I'm so tired.

Yeah, that would be me.

There's just fun, fun stuff with that, with that whole and again, we were really close, Like if you watch it, there's not a lot of space in between any of the.

Places proximity wise.

You were close to like everyone that we're dancing around.

So I love it.

But yeah, I just remember cracking up that I want to see I feel like would like if I had to do lines with you, I just feel like it wouldn't be.

It'd be great.

Well, we gotta we gotta send me that DVD because I want to see those boopers.

Okay, But to end the songs, the girls find themselves back on a smaller stage performing for now two dudes in a dimly little auditorium.

The guys clap as they wind down, and the girls are now huddled up excited at the prospect of going to California for this movie.

And now the decision has been made.

We meet Vic short for Vicram.

He's the director and dreamy.

He immediately exchanged flirting glances with Chanell.

This feels wildly unprofessional and a real issue for human resources to deal with.

Vic says he has a flight to catch but tells the girls he'd love all of them to star in his first Bollywood movie.

Everyone is excited by the news, and Vic then explains that without them, he'd be packing his bag.

For dental school.

It seems his parents don't think the arts are a real profession, so now he faces the age old dilemma Bollywood director or dentist.

We've all been there.

Things apparently move fast in Bollywood because their flight is tomorrow.

But then they realize they aren't going to California at all.

They're going to India.

Chanelle heard Hollywood, he said Bollywood, but in India like the other side of the world.

It's yeah, it's India.

But aquendo, they aren't feeling it.

They already have summer plans.

But Shanelle is gung ho ready, probably because of Dreamy mcdreamerson.

It's their chance to be international movie stars, and she thinks the director is mad cute.

She convinces her Cheetah sisters to take the leap and go to the quote movie making capital of the world unquote, which is Mumbai.

She also promises no talk about cute boys, which ironically becomes the only thing the movie is about.

But either way, they are going to India, but of course there's one problem.

While the girls are celebrating, Vic's assistant reminds the director he was supposed to cast only one girl for his uncle, the rich producer behind the film, which also doesn't make any sense, because why would his family think that being a director wasn't a legitimate thing if his uncle is a super well known and famous movie producer.

I let it go because dancing and colorful, so yes.

But anyway, Vicvliez wants his uncle meets the three girls, he realizes they'll all have to be in the movie, but the assistant isn't so sure.

But hey, no need to stress over that.

The plane takes off for India.

The girls are happy to avoid the New York heat and traffic, but then we get a patented pod meets world's signature optical flip, and then we arrive in India.

It is hotter and more congested than even Times Square.

We see the crowded, moved by streets and utter chaos of daily life there.

How did India treat you while you were there?

Oh?

So good, so good?

It was awesome.

I mean, it was a different experience in the sense that when we were in Barcelona, we had the freedom.

I think I've mentioned it to you, Like we were out after if we weren't on set, we had the freedom to go do whatever we wanted.

We would just leave our hotel room walk you know, Barcelona is such an awesome city, walk around, go out for two hour dinners, three hour dinners, you know.

Like really had so much freedom.

In India, we each had a driver and an assistant that would come meet us.

We weren't allowed to leave our resort by ourselves unless we were because it was dangerous.

Just the level of Disney just really wanting to make sure that we were safe and not like we didn't walk anywhere anywhere.

We got dropped off like at the front door of everything we went and had drivers literally take us everywhere.

It was just a totally different experience.

But truly that scene cracked me up because that was really how it felt when we were driving in India, Like I mean, getting your head bang if you were like I had to like always have my arm here on the rest because nobody there's lines in the street and I just don't know why, because nobody abides by them in any sense, and there's all those rickshaw cars, which is what we are filming in that are so tiny that just bob and weave, and then you look over and there's a big bus, like a transit bus, and there's twenty people sitting on top of the bus and ten people somehow holding onto the bus, just riding it outside of it.

Like I think those rickshaws, I think they're called tiktooks, tooktooks.

Yeah, I don't know there as well, but I know that in Asia the same kind of thing.

I think it's called the tiktooks, So I.

Think, okay, they're like, k yeah, yeah, there are tooktooks just so dangerous, yeah, super dangerous exactly.

You know, we didn't want to walk anywhere.

We're like, gosh, pedestrians have to get just hit left and right around here.

I mean, people are going up on curbs and it just was pretty crazy.

But they did take care of us like they you know, we didn't have the freedom that we had in Barcelona, but in all honesty, it didn't take us very long to not want that freedom.

We were like, please, yes, somebody be with that the other that's great.

Well, the girls, as you're telling us, are now in the backseat of a cab, and though it's a lot, they still think India is cheat delicious.

Doe looks out the window and sees an elephant.

She almost has a spiritual moment with the animal, our second possible sign.

Of psychosis in the film.

Then her phone rings.

It's her ex jo Quin in Spain.

She decides to ignore it.

She has elephant's eyes to stare into.

The girls eventually arrive at the Lovely Hotel and are stunned by its beauty and luxury.

Dough is quick to go shopping at a nearby street market and is called over by one of the vendors, Swami.

He hands her a string and tells her to tie it to a tree for a wish.

Her fellow Cheetahs arrive and join in on the wish making.

Swami explains that when the wish comes true, you return Untie the string and say thank you to the tree.

Though it sounds crazy, girls all decide to participate.

The Next day, Doe is looking at old pictures of the group that include the fourth member, Galleria, of whom we do not speak, when Aqua appears and wonders if she should call tech support Kevin.

Doe is obviously the real bummer in this movie, dooming the long distance relationship before it even starts.

And by the way, all the talk of boys has gone off the window because that's all they've been talking about the entire time.

They said they weren't going to talk about boys, and they start to talk about her recent breakup.

Chanelle pops in with the rehearsal schedule and if they don't get moving now, they'll be late.

And this was weird because it was like, I thought it was night You're all in pajamas.

It seemed like it was nighttime and like time to go to work.

I was like, wait, what what time?

I know it definitely that timing didn't make sense.

Because the timing weird.

Yes, we were, yeah, I felt like we were just going to.

After a launde for the day in pajamas.

It was a long day and it's like time to go to work.

Was like, oh, I guess I was wrong.

These Bollywood productions sure do make everything last minute.

Aqua and Derinda thanks Chanel for making them come to India.

After all, it's going to be great.

And then the Cheetah girls arrive at India Pictures.

The large appropriately named studio lot where the movies are going to be shot.

They meet up with Vic, who still seems more interested in flirting with Chanelle than making a movie.

He says he wants to make a remake of a classic Indian film, but his uncle wants to make it more contemporary, so now it's a love story with classic Bollywood singing and dancing.

They meet Raheem, their honky co star, who pulls up on a bad boy motorcycle.

He is a famous Bollywood Nepo baby, and the girls find him so dreamy that they're all speechless.

Now they're way to set, they are accosted by Geta, the movie's choreographer, complaining that the American actresses are already late.

But then even when she sees Raheem, she's at a loss for words and trips falling to the floor.

But it looks like these two have mutual crushes, which is very cute because her presence makes the big movie star nervously snort.

The girls then leave with Geta to meet the movies dancers, a large group of locals and colorful costumes.

Kay, I'm going to be totally honest to you.

At this point in the movie, I was like, I don't know how I feel.

About this movie.

This movie is kind of weird.

I don't know what's going on.

This is really kind of strange.

So I'm just letting you know that.

The girls then leave with Gita to meet the movie's dancers, a large group of locals and colorful costumes.

Rehearsal quickly begins, and Geeta speeds through a routine.

The girls would have to.

Be superhuman to follow along, so when they do try to dance, they stumble into each other, creating some tension with Guita.

Dirinda Yes, even gets a little confrontational.

It turns out Dough is a beat takes off that exact thing she's wearing now, like, don't tell me I can't dance.

Nobody tells me I can't.

It's awesome.

Geta promises it's her job to make this work, even if she's forced to slow it down for the Americans.

This does not come Drinda down, who lunch is at her but is held back by her friends.

Nobody talks to her like that if this really happened, there is no chance at hell.

Kiley's whippy.

I'm with a pull back from this chick.

I would have been fighting Will I would have been fighting.

It was awesome, So now don't want to see Noah's moves.

I loved it.

This is where I was like, and I literally texted Jensen, I'm like, I'm at the dance off.

I mean one hundred percent.

So yeah, don't wants to see Gita's moves.

That turns into a real dance battle between Geta and the Cheetah Girls, fully led by Dough.

It is our newest song, dance me if you can by Geta and Derinda.

We even have some rapping.

This is a big number for you, Sabrina.

What are your memories of this one?

Because this is when I was like, I love this film.

So what was it like doing this one?

I?

Well, first, okay, so the hard part with when you film these movies how you have like scenes going into the dance stuff too, and you're doing them all the same day, right or if it maybe is cut into two days.

So you go from when she's kind of giving us crap to where I'm like, can't even because my hair I'm getting so wind blow and my hair is like start straight and I'm just like Chryina and it's like whipping into my eye and like we're all just for women.

It shows Geeta who's like, the wind's not touching her, it's just us.

So we go from that to then having to like step up and man, I hit like one hundred and fifty.

So you went from zero to piste instantaneously.

It was awesome.

I was like, oh wow, here's the switch.

Oh my gosh.

So but I will say this I have My parents were actually able to come to India during the time schooling there, so Fred and Kathy were there with me taking so many pictures.

I have some of the greatest pictures of this up on that hill.

And you know, we went from you know, the rehearsal studio and in Barcelona.

Our rehearsal studios was really big.

In La when we were doing it for the first one, it was like a big dance studio.

This was like a tiny little room that all of our dancers would be in at one time.

It was crowded, but it was perfect.

It was like our India rehearsal room.

It was awesome.

But then we get put out on this set and the set You're just going, oh my gosh.

At this point, this was the biggest set that we had really filmed on and it was just incredible.

And the rigs and the dancers that like were those were right on the edge of a mountain, like a mountain, and they don't look super sturdy to me.

I mean I walked on the lower version one of it and was like, Paul, I want to go up there, and he's like, do you do you really?

And I was like, no, maybe not may down here fall and I mean but like they were fearless, they were just I mean, when you watch it, they climb up of it.

I mean, the dancers in this movie gave so much energy and they poured all of their talent into it, and it was just this was so epic.

This was.

Life the sweetest, like to the point she was so Watching her do these scenes was always so funny because she's so timid and so just very delicate and such a sweet, sweet woman and you know, I mean a girl then I guess, but like just the sweetest.

And then she like got all so it was easy for us to get back into each other's face because we were really going off of it.

But yeah, I loved this.

This one turned in the studio, you didn't really see how it was going to turn out.

You just saw the choreography, and the choreography was great, you know, loved it.

But then as it played out into this space, it just went up like seven notches.

Loved it, and you know we both this is where our we love each other so much.

I love a dance battle.

This was me, This was it.

I think every conflict in the world, including wars, should be settled with dance.

With dance, That's how I think it should be.

In the end, the battle concludes with hugs all around, even with GETA.

This collaboration might work after all.

But just when things are coming together, we meet Uncle Kamal, the movie's financing producer.

He wants to know who these three girls are and screams for Vic, who is of course hiding.

Uncle Kamal is budgeted for a movie with one star, so this movie will have one star.

The Cheetah girls don't get it, but Vic promises he made some great changes and just wants his uncle to see them all perform.

Uncle Kamal agrees he will see them perform, and whoever is the best will become the one star.

Oh, the other two will go home.

He's paying, so his word is final unless Vic wants to end up a dentist.

And they really make it seem like being a dentist is the worst possible thing you could do in the world.

My neighbor's a dentist.

His house is like nine times the size of mine.

So seriously, I think being a dentist maybe not the worst plan ever.

And this guy, he was so funny.

Uncle Kamal was just he's great.

Well, he's a hilarious I mean, this guy's been in everything.

Yes on him.

Yes, he was royalty on set for sure, everyone was really taking care of fam But when he was on screen, I mean we were always fighting back giggles because he was just so funny and the cutest man.

He was great.

He was great.

Well, the girls obviously can't believe it.

You can't just cast one cheetah girl.

That would be like one of them leaving and leaving only three.

You have to hire them all and with that they quit.

I actually did that one myself.

I did.

He put in one.

I'm gonna add five others.

Yes, I actually let me take one of those away because one of them didn't show up.

I'm gonna add four others.

Okay, see what I just did.

Now leaving the studio, the girls are furious.

Durinda miss dance camp and Awkward ditch summer school for this, and now it's got them wondering are the Cheetah Girls over?

And this tense moment leads us to our next number fly away with the three girls doing what they do best, walking somewhere, just walking.

This time it's through India at night, dodging what seems to be a marching band and parade, and while they're trying to figure out what their next step as a group will be.

Nobody knows will this be their demise, but they're all getting their steps in the next day, the girls are shopping at another street market, talking out the whole audition situation.

Sanell apologizes she got them into this position, and they all think that a different Cheetah girl is better for the gig.

They decide they'll all audition fair and square.

Aqua then gets a call from tech support Kevin, or as she calls him, Kevin three forty seven.

He's following up on the computer issue, and they quickly realize they're in the same time zone.

Then they figure out they're looking at the same temple and in one of the most coincidental moments in not only dcom history, but possibly movie history or any history in the history of history.

They're right next to each other, despite the fact that she didn't tell him she was coming to India and she didn't know that he lived there.

One thing you can't say about India.

There's not a lot of people, so it's easy to run into people that you know.

Right And of course he doesn't have an accent because he watches a lot of American television, but his real name is Amar, another cutie.

He uses Kevin for work, which also doesn't make sense to me down the line, but we'll get into that.

And even though they hit it off, Doe stays the real hater that she is.

She swears long distance doesn't work and wants to interfere.

Sheelle stops her, and then Do sees another elephant.

She thinks every elephant is looking into her soul like they want to tell her something.

Just then Vic calls to check in and the Cheetahs officially accept the separate auditions.

Doe is now alone and once again bumps into Swami, the street market vendor with the string in the trees.

He wonders if she's having doubts, and she admits that times have been rough.

He tells her not to be too anxious for the future.

He compares her to a tree.

The branches grow, but the trunk remains the same.

But Doe hates change.

She's reminded it'll happen if she likes it or not.

The wise man then says when things are bad, they don't stay that way, and then he hands her a small goodness statue, but she isn't satisfied.

She wants something else, and so he asked her to close her eyes for a surprise.

Then he hits her in the head with a palm.

A startled Doe wants to know what that was for, and he says, clarity.

I'll be honest, at that point, I wanted to hit you in the head too.

Meanwhile, Aqua and amar aka Kevin from Tech Support are out on a date, trying spicy street food and walking.

This movie has so much walking in it.

Did you ever realize until you watch it again how much walking is actually in this movie?

So much and if you know, much walking?

But I also was paying attention.

We're wearing besides Keey Keeley chose like ballet flats all the time, smart as you're in and I are wearing like full blown, like four to five inch stiletto heels so much of this movie without realizing the amount of like cobblestony, well not necessarily cobblestone, but.

Just unpaven It's.

Like, oh my gosh, I no, we walk so much.

I didn't notice that until I rewatched it.

A crazy amount of walking it really we are again yeap walking everywhere.

But Aqua and Kevin from Tech Supporter getting along very well, even talking about an eventual visit to New York.

But his whole life has been planned out by his dad and he can't really speak up to him.

He has no way out of Indian School of Business in the Fall.

The next day, on set, Geeta is having trouble with Raheem's clumsiness.

Every time he's around the choreographer.

He can't even rehearse because he's acting so dorky.

He knows he needs help getting over his nerves.

Even though he's a big movie star.

He's never felt this way before, and he's never even kissed a girl outside of a movie.

And despite the fact that Doe barely believes in love anymore and is a big downer this whole movie.

She agrees to help him win over Gita, and in return, har'll help her with her movie audition and hopefully walking all over the place.

Also a Vic is with Aqua and you won't believe what they're doing together.

Yep, they're walking.

Vic is rewriting the script like his uncle wants.

Even if he must make compromises to achieve his dream, he can't spend the rest of his life wondering if he could have made it.

And this speaks directly to Chanel.

It leads us to our next song, what If, a solo from Chanelle all about the stress of the audition and competing against her besties.

All while singing, she gets an even more walking.

She's at thirty two thousand steps for the day and it's nine am.

She eventually checks out a street chalk artist and then runs into Vic at a night market.

Now Gita and Do are Yeah, they're walking and talking about the dynamics.

So thats come on like you do walk in lots of scenes at play.

It's every single thing.

It's so like it's it's tons and tons of walking.

At one point, it's just like, can you sit him down on the table, just sit him down at.

The table table?

Can we get a couch a couch?

But you know one of the reasons, you know, one of the reasons truly is because when your backgrounds are that pretty, I guess you want to show as much of them as possible.

So you're walking through markets, you're walking through streets, you're walking by the water.

But it is a lot walking.

It is it can be yes, So they're walking and talking about the dynamics of the cheetah girls.

Does convinced this competition will not break their bond, but Gita just isn't sold.

She wanted to be a star herself, but now is happy just dancing behind the scenes.

She notices a cardboard cutout of Raheem nearby and thinks it's really him, and nervous, she runs off to hide.

It's obvious how much she likes him too, but she thinks he'd never like her because she's not a movie star.

Doe convinces her she doesn't need to be a movie star, especially because she's a star on the dance floor.

Did anybody else notice the giant Jonas Brothers poster in the background.

Of course I did love the synergy.

Yes.

Next day, at India Pictures, Vic checks out what's supposed to be his big wedding set and it's a major disappointment.

Everything he's asking for is missing and it's literally breaking apart.

His uncle says this is quote all they can afford unquote, So Vic begs him for more time, but Uncle Kamal says they're already over budget and his fancy NYU film degree can't help with that.

If Vic doesn't start shooting next week, he's pulling the plug in the movie.

If Vic can find a free location to replace at the wedding palace, he can use that, but no more money can be spent.

Now regroup with the Cheetah girls, geta Rahim and Kevin Vic knows he can't find a free location in a week.

His movie is doomed and the girls think they're going home.

But Kevin can't imagine them leaving without seeing Holly, the most colorful holiday in the world.

Vic says he's too stressed to celebrate Holly, but Kevin insists that Rajasthan, his hometown, is the best place to find this location.

He may even have the perfect palace at his disposal.

It's time for a Cheetah road trip, and just when they think it's gonna be fun, Uncle Kamal invites himself to the locations count.

On their way out of the hotel, the street vendor Swami reminds the girls to untie their strings from the tree, but their wishes haven't come true yet.

Swami swears it'll take time, and he has just a thing to.

Make them see more clearly.

He picks up the pod and slapped him in the face, but Doe isn't having it.

They run off, but Aqua slyly removes her string from the tree and secretly ties it to her wrist.

Oh.

Now on the road and all packed into a small car, we get a small stippit of a new song stand Up.

So this is also a cheatahirl song, right stand Up?

Yeah?

So this is where it threw me because sometimes there was songs in the background that you guys weren't singing along to.

I think stand Up was either Adrian's movie, there was.

Mine Adrian song.

Okay, yeah, my.

Song came while like while we were in that rickshaw the car that scene.

That was when my song came up.

I think this is Adrian's and then Keeles comes later.

But these are Cheetah Girls songs, so you're not all singing together.

These are your on the soundtrack.

Now it makes sense.

Yes, I could.

I didn't know what was going on.

You weren't walking, right, yuess.

Because we were actually not walking.

We're standing completely silent, So.

That makes sense.

Okay, So all the songs you weren't singing along to were not Cheatah Girl songs.

These were individual songs.

Individual That makes so much more sense.

Got it, got it?

Got it?

Okay?

So uh, this is stand up and Vic explains to Chanelle why he wants to make movies.

He explains that he loves telling stories and imagining the visual loves telling stories and imagining the visuals, which is literally the most generic answer to why you want to make movies possible.

I like telling stories and seeing things.

So good luck to him with his career.

Yeah, but the flirting between him and Chanelle is certainly intensifying, which still feels like a conflict of interest considering he's going to be picking the movie star.

When they arrive at Holly Again, Doe believes elephants are staring at her, and it makes you wonder if anyone is contemplating having your institutionalize, But Gita promises her it's a site of good luck, just as she's drenched with water by a nearby elephant.

Okay, how many takes did you have to do?

Was it just somebody splashing you?

Did you actually ever have an elephant spraying you?

Go?

Paul Howan splashed me.

Ah, nice, And I.

Believe he just loved it.

I don't think he was like, I'm sorry about this.

And because we weren't this was what when we were out at this village, there wasn't like a lot, like we had to prep kind of farther off from this actual uh venue that we are location that we were were filming at.

So I think it was just one takes.

I remember there wasn't going to be anywhere for me to like dry my hair to do it to get another one.

So yeah, it was it was just one or a few takes.

There wasn't a lot, and and.

Yeah, Paul loved it.

And then also we were very concerned about that stuff that is what you throw around is really concentrated, and they were worried about especially my hair that like I put so much hair stuff in and bleach it out, Keeley's hair, Adrian's hair.

Everyone was like really worried about, like us getting that the color stuff in the.

Thing and your eyes and your mouth and everything else.

I always wondered about it.

So beautiful, like they were really actually celebrating it during this time one of it, and it was so cool.

It does.

It's one of those things that's a that's a bucket listing for me.

That's something I'd like to experience.

It looks really really cool.

Very cool.

And now we get, like Sabrino is saying, some beautiful shots of a holly celebration with traditional Indian music and customs.

You've already said it was awesome to shoot.

Then our group of characters takes a boat ride to Amar's house, which is Kevin and it is a massive palace.

It could even be its own city.

Even Uncle Muddy Bags is impressed on a tour of the grounds.

Aqua can't believe he never mentioned he's royalty, but he swears he's not a maharaja well and not until his uncle dies, so he's a future maharaja, but he's a Kevin on tech support.

This is what I didn't get this, he just spends his day as Kevin on tech support.

But he's a maharaja.

What yeah, okay, Well, he apologizes and swears it makes his life more difficult.

He envies Aqua and the fact that her future is wide open, which apparently his is too.

If he's going to be super wealthy but can also just work tech support.

She can make her own decisions and pivot.

But that's not how life works for him.

And now it's time for dinner.

It's a huge feast, which looked so good to me, and we'll get into that later.

And Amar's dad is away on business.

His mom is a gracious host and honored to have a movie star and big producer at the house.

She even seems to dig the idea of her son dating Aqua, even if they aren't officially dating yet.

And that was a little it's like, gets so uncomfortable.

She's like, I'll give you the recipe, and she's like, well, we're not actually dating it.

Oh, one of those wonderfully uncomfortable scenes.

Vic of course gets right to the point and asks Amar if they can shoot at the palace.

He says yes, but he wants one thing.

Oh.

The next day, Amar explains the condition he asked for is for Aqua to star in the movie as the new location owner.

He's forced Vic to cast her as the lead.

Uncle Kamal will agree since the palace has saved the entire movie.

Elsewhere in the castle, Dough stumbles on Raheem, who is creepily watching Kita dance from Afar when she was.

She doesn't get why he won't just a pro if he cares about her, he has to take the chance.

Right Then, Derinda's phone rings again.

This guy's really trying to get in touch with her.

It's Joaquin, the X in Spain.

Well, I mean could have like she could be calling like you have my passport.

She ignores the call, and it's obvious she needs to listen to her own advice at some point, and then she sees Chanelle and Vic holding hands nearby planning shots of the new movie.

Doz obviously upset.

She was never even told they were a couple and knows this makes the auditions unfair.

But little does she know that Chanelle is actually forcing her new director love interest to keep it fair, no unfair advantages, and truth is there's only one unfair advantage going on.

Vic tells Chanelle all about Amar, demanding Ak will be the lead if they use the location.

He says his answer was it's not up to me and sent it on to his uncle.

But the big takeaway here is the Unbreakable Cheetabond feels broken.

It gets especially blurred.

It's like there were four legs on a chair, but now there are only three when they started the movie, and now it feels like those are breaking.

The Unbreakable Cheetah Bond feels broken.

It gets especially blurry when they find out Raheem is helping Doe with her audition.

Everyone seems to be out for themselves, and Chanelle feels like she's the only one playing fair.

Now over at rehearsal, Dough and Raheem are dancing together and strategizing their next move with geta Uncle.

Kamal sees them practicing and immediately thinks they look great, and so he's leaning toward casting Derinda.

And I loved what they did with the three of you here, where it's like you're the dancer, there's a dancer, there's a singer, there's an actor.

Now you all obviously can do all three, But when you're looking to cast a film.

It was great the way they separated you to where it's like, we've got to cast the dancer.

No, we've got to cast the actor.

No, we've got to catch It was very interesting that the way they separated the three of you, even though you're all graded, all three of them, frankly, but he's leaning towards casting.

Derinda vic tries to convince him to cast Chanel and Aqua.

Hears all of this from afar.

This has become quite a tale of betrayal, and now everyone is getting paranoid.

It is they are all This alleged backstabbing leads the three girls back together and grumpy on a rooftop.

Chanelle notices that Aqua is wearing her wish string and wants to know what that's all about.

She admits her wish has come true, which doesn't make any sense.

Chanell wished for the Cheetah Girls to become movie stars and Derinda wished for them to stay the same, so they basically canceled out each other's wishes.

So then what did Aqua wish for that already came true?

She reveals she wished to meet Kevin tech Support in person, and now all hell breaks loose, Chanelle asks her if her other wish was for her boyfriend to buy her way into the movie, and then Doe gets accused of hitting on Raheem for the big part, and Chanelle gets thrown under the bus for dating the director.

The movie has indeed gotten in between the Cheetah Girls, and just when the infighting couldn't get any worse, it is audition time.

Uncle Kamal, Raheem, Kevin, Tech Support and Vic take their seats and we get our next song.

I'm the one not only featuring the Cheetah Girls, but all the boys who sing, each fighting for their personal pick to lead the film.

Was it really the guy singing?

No, it was.

At first I thought it was Drew Seely, but instead I think it was the producer that actually produced has produced a ton of our stuff.

Okay, and I think it was actually him.

But it didn't even because I'm like, it didn't even sound like it was three or four different.

I was like, yeah, I feel like that was a bit of a fumble.

I'm not gonna lie.

I was like, wait a minute, guys, we couldn't find any other demo guys to just come in.

Somebody somebody got nineteen people on the channel, you can use what the hell you got forty two people on tour?

Right?

It honestly could have been Drew because he at this time was doing just a billion things for the Channel.

But I feel like it was actually the I think it was actually the demo guy, the guy that did the original demo.

Yeah, well, last Paul.

The song ends to applause and Uncle Camal admitting he gets why Vic wanted to choose all three, but they can't afford it, so he's choosing Chanel, just as his nephew wanted Duranda Knockwar and not surprise and honestly pretty angry.

Vic congratulates Chanel, but you can tell she isn't feeling very good about this.

Now doan Awkwer are getting ready to go home, and she is stressing, leading us right into our new song, no Place Like Us, another ballad about friendship and how succeeding solo just won't mean as much as making it as a group.

There's a lot of balad.

I am just gonna say it.

I am like ballad out at this point.

I'm like, yeah, I don't remember there being so many, but this one was my one of my favorite songs to perform on stage in front of our cheetah fans.

This was a good song.

This was such a fun song, a good song like you just felt so good.

We got teary eyed so much.

One of the things that threw me a little bit about some of the music in this movie was its frequency, meaning one song would sometimes one song would end and there'll be five scenes and then another song.

And sometimes one song would end and there'd be four lines and then another song.

And it was a wow, very very heavy music driven this, but it was also a lot of times it was strange, Like I'd liked the music, but it was strangely uh uh set up to where again, sometimes we'd wait a while before a song, and sometimes a song would come instantly after another song.

And this is a perfect example because I'm the one finishes we leave that set or that another like right into another song.

But that's what I mean, And I will say this just the constant three D motion of this that shows you so much of just being on top of like a giant, amazing building that welding in a real actual palace, like it was gorgeous, Yeah, but with me rewatching it almost twenty years later, I'm like, holy crap, this is just another Yeah.

It's another ballad.

You got a lot of ballads, a lot of ballads.

We're very emotional.

This third movie very emotion.

It should be called Cheatah Girls three colon the Ballad of Walking, which would have been great.

Uh.

The song ends with the three girls holding hands, smiling.

Drinda knock Will apologize Chanelle does deserves the role.

They know change is inevitable, but they will be the Cheetah Girls together now and forever.

Then Chanelle reveals she isn't going to take the role.

It's not worth it if it destroys their friendship.

She breaks the news to vict They're all bowing out.

He has no idea how he'll write this movie without a love interest, Chanel say.

Jesse finally stand up to his uncle.

Maybe this isn't his big chance, if it's not the movie he wants to make.

Vic says, if she won't be as leading woman on screen, then maybe she.

Can be in real life.

Ooh, and then they give what is arguably one of the worst kisses in the history of Hollywood.

It is a bad kiss.

Come on, this is a kiss by I don't know which one it was or if it was both of them, but somebody said this is going to be a peck and nothing more.

And if you even look at me too much, I'm gonna smack you in the face.

Well, to be fair, Rob was probably right off camera.

I don't give it any you are an actor.

I don't give it this.

It looked like she might as well have patted him on the head.

I mean it was there was so like you're kiss with the guy with Joaquin last week.

It was like there was some it was it was nice and it was chased, and there was that you weren't macking on each other, but there was no you saw there was something there.

There was a passion there, there was a connection.

This was like, hey, you got a little by damn, please don't touch me.

It was so weird.

It was this was a terrible, terrible man.

See, it was weird for me.

But I think it's just because I was watching Adrien kiss somebody that I know that was not ever like I don't know, it's.

Like in real life they call it faking.

In a movie, it's called acting.

Okay, So this was just like this was just bad.

So you're not going to go for it, then shake his hand and walk away again.

You don't have to shove your tongue down the guy's throat, but at least make it look like you like them.

This was a This was not a good watch.

This was not a.

Good This is another moment where I'm like, oh great, here here comes my like complete like lack of memory.

I'm like, wait, just heally have a kiss of this movie too.

I think she does that yet watch I know, but watch, watch, watch again.

So Chanelle moves in.

They both move like this, they pack very quickly, and then he's still moving in and she backs away.

So you watch this where she's like, we're done, we're done.

We're done, We're done, We're done.

And he's like, oh, we did, we did, we did the kiss.

The script says we like each other.

I guess I got a different version.

Elsewhere in the Castle Amar Slash, Kevin meets up with Aqua and apologizes he was just trying to make things happen.

She says she wanted him to follow his dreams, not by hers good line.

He wonders if applying to Columbia would be following his dream because he's convinced his parents to allow him to move to New York, which feels fast, but hey, Colombia is a great school, and finally we have Derinda and raheem encouraging him to finally approach Gita.

She sends him off with flowers and now they have their first date scheduled.

But with all this love around her, Direnda feels lonely as hell.

She pulls out her cell phone and finally calls her Spanish boyfriend walking back.

He's left fifty two messages.

He's been in the hospital and she's the only person who had his medication or something you could have checked.

She gets his voicemail and apologizes for avoiding him.

She's been thinking they should be friends.

She misses him.

She then hangs up and finds the Ganness sculpture in her bag.

Maybe it helped hermove obstacles after all.

And in case you missed it, the obstacle was her.

Sounds like my life.

It's kind of amazing though, how they set up that that he's never had a kiss in real life and he doesn't kiss Gita.

I mean, it was part of the story, is that he's never had a kiss that isn't on film, and he doesn't have a kiss.

Don't they kiss in the last in the movie?

Oh right, yeah, we're filmed.

Yeah, so once again he hasn't even kissed a person in real life.

I thought the whole point was that he's only kissed on film.

So how he doesn't pull her aside, pull her off the film something like that and give her a kiss was such a missed.

Moment to me.

Yeah, because it's like, you we set this up.

I was waiting for him to plant one on her, like, come on, this is this would be your first kiss in a way and kiss, yeah, several very good kisses, and then and then the other one.

Yes.

And now with the girls ready to go home, they start to feel bad for Vic, who will be the star of this movie now and that's when it hits them the new relationship between Raheem and Gita might just be the answer.

Everyone rushes to uncle Kamal to sell him on the new idea.

He argues that no one wants to see a choreographer on screen, but Vic says she's a star and he can prove it.

He finally stands up to his uncle and says he's got to do what he believes in and with his newfound confidence.

His uncle thinks he's finally become a director.

Geita is the new lead and now the movie within a movie Nama Stay Bombay has begun filming.

Gita takes her place as the main character, and the girls start the final song, the title track, one World.

It's a big Bollywood finale number with everyone in it and tons of dancing.

It also didn't make any sense because now all three of them are in the movie, which is the thing he couldn't afford in the first place.

So imagine we've been there for a minute now like a bit of money for us.

And saying.

At this point you've already paid for everything because we're not paying the bills, So okay, but anyway, yes, and now the movie within a movie Noma ste Bumbay has begun filming.

Geeta takes her place as the main character, and the girls start the final song of the title track, one World.

It is a big Bollywood finale number with everyone in it and tons of dancing.

It's very pretty.

This had to take some time to shoot.

There is a ton of moving parts, kids, Convetti and an elephant that Sabrina is holding on to like, oh my god, she's on a roller coaster and just has her arms wrapped around this thing.

Everybody else has their arms up and she's just got one hand up slowly and it's holy down her dear life to the other one.

What was riding the elephant life?

Oh my gosh, it was well, first of all, I mean, I guess you would think.

But when you're up there, you.

Are sing down going, holy cow, we are, And there are no seatbelts, no buckles, no nothing except for what's buckled around this giant elephant.

And a basket up top.

Will like that.

It was a basket, like a like thick oh, like a woven basket you loofe soever.

And the the they're having the elephant move and we are moving with them, trying to sing.

The crane is going.

There's so much confetti in the air.

It just is like I mean, and then it was like cut and then like free, set, clean up.

We never got off the elephant once we were on it, until it was done.

How do you get onto the elephant?

How does one get on an elephant?

They had done it, but I can't remember.

Ours was like a very again like yanky metal ladder that they had hooks went up to the top of the woven basket and you're like climbing up and I had my whole like all my like garments on like that.

Oh yeah, you're dressed to the hilt.

It was just very scary.

And I even had a chance to meet the elephant and get on the elephant long before we ever did the scene.

It was like we were rehearsing still, and I mean, you're just like, it's.

I love it all right.

Well that's our movie.

That's our movie.

Now we've got real reviews.

Now here's the problem is our producers this time, unfortunately, gave you the one star and the five star.

So since was this this was your movie?

Oh I'm gonna let you decide.

Would you rather read the bad review of your movie or the good review of your movie?

It's up to you.

I guess I'll go for the one star.

It's okay, funny, go ahead.

All right.

One star from Willy Wings.

One star.

The girls may be cute, but that doesn't help anything.

They are all skinny and not good role models.

What a shame.

Also, the plots as so many holes.

You can't step anywhere without falling into crap.

One star.

It's different when you're talking about your own movie, didn't it.

It's like, I guess I'm okay with you calling me skinny.

Thanks Willy, Thanks Willy, Thanks Willy.

Wis.

I have the five star from our old friend n Noaman, who is back, and this is, though far from my habitual taste, it's great.

Some songs are interesting five stars and now we have what used to be our favorite and it is no longer our favorite section of the program, which is our weekly game.

First of all, who's playing with us this week?

You got Mikayla?

All right, we got producer Mikayla.

So, as I'm sure everybody is aware, I love food very much, and Indian food just happens to be arguably my favorite food in the world.

I love it.

I love it, I love it.

So this is going to be called Middle Feast in honor of the location.

Using the Cheeah Girls, One World, We're also taking our game to India, and one of the best things in India is the cuisine.

We will get the ingredients from one of the country's most popular dishes and from a list of options, we have to decide what the resulting dish is called three out of five wins.

I hope I get some of these right, because I could live on Indian food alone.

I love it so much.

I can't eat it at all because of being there.

Yeah, I was sick the whole time.

Oh we were in India, like the food just and I could not My body never got used to it.

And now it like one time when we were on tour, someone ordered it to be on our tour bus.

After I walked in and walked right off the tour bus into a bathroom and puked.

Oh my god.

Yeah, Like my body would just start salivating and it was like my stomach was ready to like go any marsala or there's another masala, masala and then there's.

Another Oneala curry.

Oh yeah, I love it so much.

Okay, I know, and I loved it before I went there.

But no, so we will not.

We will not be going and hanging out for Indian food.

That's that's a shame.

Well, I actually would like to do it here again.

Okay, we'll do it.

We'll go, we'll go.

Well, we'll walk there while singing.

That should make it easy for you, all right.

So Number one boneless chicken, yogurt, garlic garam masala, coriander, ginger, cuman, turmeric, chili powder, salt, lemon, and oil.

Is it a chicken vndalo b chicken teaka masala see chicken corma or D butter chicken?

I do too.

I think it's be chicken masala.

You're correct.

Yes, I've tried to make it.

I'm trying to get better at cooking Indian food because again, I just love it so much.

Number two spinach, garlic, ginger, green chilies.

Is it a sagalu, B pollock doll, C pollock paneer or D pollock chot.

I'm gonna go with that one.

I think it's C.

I think it's actually C.

Two Will is correct.

Number three lamb onion, garlic, ginger, dried red chilies, vinegar, cuman, mustard, seeds, black pepper, cloves, cinnamon, turmeric, oil and salt.

Is it a lamb vindaloo, B lamb rogan yash see lamb corma or d lamb biryani, onion, garlic, dried ginger, vinegar, cumin.

I do you want to go first?

I'm gonna go with A.

I think it is a vindolo.

I'm gonna say a lamb vindaloo.

Correct you guys, Yes, Yes.

Number one four stewing beef, onion, garlic, green chilies, tomato, curry, leaves, coconut milk, cumin, coriander, turmeric, black pepper, garamasala, mustard, seeds, oil, and salt.

Is it a beef curry?

Bekroala, beef fry see beef vndalou or d beef corma.

This is because there was not one beef item on any of the restaurants.

We ever, well, no, because I don't.

I think in India the cow is worshiped, so you're not eating you're not eating beef like no options.

I'm gonna say it's I'm gonna say it's a curry.

I'm gonna say it's an a beef curry because there's coconut, milk and green chilies, which is a curry.

So I'm gonna say it's a beef curry.

I'm gonna do a as well.

Correct God good.

Number five whole black lentils, red kidney, beans, salt, butter, onion, garlic, ginger, tomato, pure chili powder, gram marsala, dried fenugreek, leaves and turmeric.

Is it a dama khani?

Chaanna Masala see beyan gang Barta, I'm apologize for all of these that I'm mangling or deep.

Acora, oh b Chaana Massala.

I'm gonna say deep Cora.

It is a oh okay, well we still won.

Ah, yeah you did, Thank you, producer MICHAELA.

I was impressed.

I was impressed too.

And now that's all I want to eat.

Can we please do a Sabrina ses Oh man, this is gonna be a good one.

Yea, yes, Well, first, you know again, I haven't seen these movies, but now that we've seen all three, what kills me the most of every single one of our movies is our stock footage of New York.

And it is all three movies.

They're terrible, like they are they look, especially in the second and the third one, because then you fly into like this just gorgeous filming.

The stock footage in our three movies, like it starts every I feel like, for some reason, I can't think of the second movie, but I know for sure in the first one, and definitely obviously we just saw it.

In the third one starts right off with like the streets of New York, but they're like you get this stock it looks so bad.

It's old school, old school, like it's from like the depths of a hallway into some closet in the very back.

Room of it.

Yeah.

And then another thing was I remember, so we go straight into Cheetah Love.

Those stairs were so terrifying to dance.

It looked like they were and you can tell how often all three of us and all the dancers around us were looking down at any moment where it made sense for us to be able to look down and just make sure because those were and this was one of the things that happened a lot in India while we were filming, was stairs and things like that.

They're not measured out the same, you know, with depth, like they're just you know, or there's a lot of them are old.

So they had cracks.

I mean it was it was kind of nerve wracking.

And again you're in heels and we're dancing and the beat us fast and weird.

Also noticed the weird change.

So you're in the far shot, it's like you're down here, and then I think Chanelle's on top, and then Ak was next to you like a triangle, but you're definitely bottom right okay, And then they cut to all of you together facing the camera and you're now top left.

Oh, like all of a sudden, your position has changed and you went from here to up there in one shot.

And it was like, oh, oh, that's whoa.

I didn't notice that, which is strange.

That must have happened to happen like with just in the editing floor, because I'm sure the choreographer for these routines were from start to finish, every single one of them was a start to finish movement.

Everything not just choreography, everything was movement, and so that is actually very interesting.

Wow.

Yeah, but I just remember being terrified of that that that scene that we did, and we did that later on.

There's many times these the britic is kind of like our little harsh towards me where I'm like, do I have like an accent?

Like where is Like I'm like, it's like, nobody tells me.

I can't answer, I don't know it just you were great.

What do you mean?

Like I got into this accent of some sort.

I can't even put my finger on it.

Don't make.

This one was a fun, funny one for me to watch.

Well, all of them are.

One of the things I will say Now I loved the ore.

Assuming that Mona May who did Enchanted, She's just incredible.

She like in the movie as the very beginning, we are at our audition and then we say, let's go get something to eat.

We're in street clothes.

We're not in like a cost like it's not like a sequence stop with rhinestones and like looking like we're about to do some crazy performance.

We're in like street clothes.

We change to go into then more street clothes to go to dinner.

Why did we need We were just gonna go straight there, But that happened a lot.

We were we were stacked with our wardrobe, like we had a lot of war.

I imagine because it's beautiful.

Shees it's so funny.

I just couldn't get over how many outfits we had.

And I remember we had so many long like wardrobe fitting.

I was just dying because I'm like, oh, he's definitely gonna make say this, but I wrote it down.

Anyway, we're in India by ourselves.

I wasn't gonna say anything.

Again.

I was in New York by myself when I was eleven and twelve, So strange, stranger things happen, But yes, do you What.

Do you mean you were living in New York by yourself at eleven or twelve?

No, but I would take the bus in from Connecticut and walk to my audition and then get back on the bus of port authority and go home.

This is like a fifteen This is two planes, this is I mean.

But yeah, you're all you're you're all supposed to.

I imagine you were all supposed to be at least eighteen.

I mean, it's not specified that we've graduated high school.

Right, but you're talking about this is this is this summer before college.

Okay, so I imagine you're.

Supposed to be eighteen.

Yeah, but yes, it's there.

It's a lot.

Yes, And honestly, at this point, we meet uh Akwa's dad in the finale of the first movie, who was Oscott, our director.

We met my foster mom, but that's it.

So the only person that would have been able to go that we've actually met and have any kind of connection with would have been Chanelle's mom, I guess.

But because the mom we knew the best was Galeria's mom.

Galerius to do it right, Okay.

So yeah, it just it's still is like that's a big Okay.

You know, it's like this easy easily could have been its whole different movie if you were met by the same guy from taking he took the two girls off the plane right away, and and yeah, it's much different movie if you've got to call Liam Neeson halfway through.

Right exactly.

So anyway, that that was one thing that kind of never was really, you know, gone.

And then I already talked about my wind blown hair and the woe do calm down.

I don't think it's that serious yet.

I was not going to calm down.

And I just was cracked up with this movie.

How adamant I was on note boys like just I was.

And then you all talked about boys the whole time, and I just.

Like a blocker, a blocker locker the whole time.

Poor Keene, at least I believed that when you kissed him.

Well, thank you very much.

And now we come to the portion where we have to rate our film.

I say, because it's your movie, we make one the worst okay, and ten the best perfect.

And now here are options one to ten Kingpin Agents unprofessional movie directors in need of hr Psychotic Cheetah Girls one out of ten Tree Strings Indian marching bands, soul sucking elephants, one out of ten non stop walks, generic explanations of making movies, or one out of ten obstacled Derindas.

It's your movie, you gotta pick, I.

Think because I had literally never noticed it until this rewatch.

It's the NonStop.

Yes, that's what I would have picked too.

With the vocal non stop walks, with the vocals.

I love it.

I don't remember who goes first.

I think I think you go first.

I think I did the Jonas Brothers movie last time, which was I went first.

So you got to rate your movie first, wrong, what do you got?

Gosh, this is tough, you know, reading your own movies.

I know, so weird to do.

It was a nice I had a good time watching it again.

These movies for me and I love that.

That's my favorite thing about, you know, doing the interviews that we do is talking to the the actors that have been a part of these movies because it brings back so many amazing memories of filming, where you were in your career at that time, what was going on, the changes, all that kind of stuff.

So this was good.

There was a little bit more of an emotional thing because you know, now, looking back, I now know this was like the start of the end, you know, of our our Cheetah life.

But like I said, the movie was so beautiful, like remembering being there in person.

Filming was just breath taking.

There were more holes, I would say.

I felt like there could have been some eliminated walking sessions.

That entire lighting could have shortened it.

I mean, we didn't need it because we were already under the ninety minutes.

But you know, I did like for me Duringda's storyline, I did like it.

I thought she had so much depth within this one, and it was like an honor to be able to take her character to a different place and care more about other people than like what she was going through selfish.

I felt like The Cheetah Girls, too, was a little bit more selfish, but I liked it.

It was fun.

It was a good watch for me to just be nostalgic and just be so appreciative of everything I got through the Cheetah time.

The movie itself didn't par up to the second one for me.

Still things about it did, but more didn't.

So I'm gonna go with an eight non stop walks.

Okay, eight solid eight.

I think that's good.

I think I'm right there with you.

I'm basically I'm a I'm a soft eight hard seventy five on stop walks, and I'm just starting right with the number because basically everything you said, it is a very pretty movie.

Some of the story doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

I didn't really buy the relationship between Chanel and the director.

But no, the music was good, the visuals were great.

India is obviously a gorgeous background.

You were all good.

I love that you had way more to do in this movie.

I felt like the movie was based more around you, and it was wonderful.

But I did you right.

I did miss the kind of irreverence and comedy of Raven's character.

Yes, there is they it was this.

There were very few light moments in this movie, and then you know, the second one and the first one had those kind of light moments that I think it needed a little more.

But it was.

It was a totally fun watch.

This was a great franchise.

All three of them were.

Again, we I can only watch this as a fifty year old man.

That being said, if I was like eleven or twelve year old girl, when this came out, when the when the Cheetah Girls came out, Oh my god, this would have been the coolest thing in the world.

And watching a group form and then they're going all around the world and then they end in India, Like, are you kidding me?

This would have been the coolest.

So uh yeah, this is a hard seven to five soft eight for me, just like what you said NonStop Walks.

This was a fun franchise and a fun movie, So yeah, definitely, yeah, definitely enjoyed it.

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I think I'm pretty sure that's how it works.

So anyway, thanks everybody.

It's been a cheat, delicious three movies.

I'm so glad we got to do them all by everybody.

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