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The Cheetah Girls: One World (Extended Music Edition)

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This movie had so many places where it could have been improved. It is more than a little boring, instead of being fun and interesting. It could have added so much scenery/history/interesting scenes for so little more work. It is worth a viewing for the tweens but probably wouldn't interest the teen set at all.

My 8 year old likes this mivie, she enjoyed the bonus scenes and song. My 14 year old said it was the stupidest thing she ever saw. But then she says that about most things...Very colorful and fun, typical Disney style bad acting and lame storyline. Fine for pre teens.

We love the Cheetahs but this movie isn't very good. You don't want to see fighting and controversy in a movie for this age group.

I thought this movie was exlent . I have all cheetah girls movie. I believe the first two were beter thin this one . but this one was ok allso.

Great musical keeping in tradition with the first two Cheetah Girls movies. Family oriented, fun, lovely costumes/locations, colors, and highly upbeat. Great for families, people who like musicals, and the young at heart!

The Cheetah Girls: One World is the latest Disney DVD and the newest installment of the Cheetah Girls series. In this new musical adventure, Chanel, Dorinda and Aqua are invited to star in a Indian Bollywood movie, only to find that one of the girls will get the lead role. However, with a little trust in friendship and their melodic talents, the Cheetahs will come out on top. The special features includes a blooper reel and an extended scene with sing-along. The Cheetah Girls: One World is the one of the best Disney Channel made-for-cable movies yet.

This is such a good movie, it has beautiful scenery, clothing, and songs. What is especially nice about this film is that it blends two cultures so well into the sound and colors of each scene. Well worth it!

This is such a fun movie! My Kindergartener just loves the Cheetah Girls and as a Mom I am glad to have this kind of fun, diverse, clean entertainment for my little one. The music is great and she is now curious about India. My friend even brought her back a saree from India over the holidays and she dresses up in it all the time! She loves to dance ballet and tap and loves to sing. I think it's good that she sees professional singers/dancers that aren't stick figures on the big screen. They are healthy and having fun.

I purchased this movie for my 9 year old daughter who loved it.I myself didn't care for this one.The 2nd cheetah girl movie is the best to me,but my daughter wanted it,so I bought it at a very good price. The songs are nice and the dancing too.

To a baby boomer like me, The Cheetah Girls are a variation on Josie and the Pussycats. But much as I loved the Josie comics and the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, the creators of the movie version failed big time where Disney succeeded -- very likely because the Josie movie took the "edgy" route and turned its back on both its family audience and the fans of the franchise.

The Cheetahs, on the other hand, have been highly consistent initiative for Disney Channel and Walt Disney Records. While not the "lightning in a bottles" that Hannah Montana and High School Musical have been, instead this peppy pop threesome have been perhaps the longest running enterprise in the Disney catalog of tween attractions, with three TV movies, five albums and three tours. Actually the concept began as a book series in 1999.

In the lollipop-colorama that is The Cheetah Girls: One World, the group has just the sort of glamorous international moviemaking experience that little girls make up on the living room floor with their Barbies. The movie definitely hits that target, as well as introduce many Americans to the idea of Bollywood and a little bit of Indian culture (though if Big Bird visited India in one of those specials we might have learned a little more).

Hmm... the plot. Chanel, Dorinda and Aqua meet hunky guys but don't get too serious, get a chance to be Bollywood stars but choose friendship and loyalty instead and sing a crispy, crunchy package of catchy songs -- on camera rather than "in their heads" which is creditable since few modern musicals allow their audiences to stretch their imaginations like old time ones did.

The movie also causes some speculation that it is just a part of an overall Disney/Bollywood corporate incentive to bridge the two industries for a fiscal win-win. It may or may not be a coincidence that the first Disney animated film created for India, Roadside Romeo, came out around the same time this film premiered.

It's interesting to note how the filmmakers managed to give this movie a somewhat opulent look with a limited budget, by filling the screen with color at every opportunity and filming a lot of outdoor scenes with heavily dressed settings (as in the marketplace sequence which looks much more "art directed," with each color perfectly complimenting the other, that the eclectic real thing possibly could). It's a nice-looking production.

The DVD features a new song sequence and bloopers, but what most impressed me was ability to watch the entire film with "Cheetah Spots" in which the performers comment on camera every few minutes and the film image become an inset. It's a nice alternative to an audio commentary and is perhaps easier for the intended audience to enjoy. You can also tell who is talking because you see them. These "spots" additionally reveal which choices Disney Channel viewers voted on to take place in the film: what props might show up, etc, which is a clever way to involve the fans.

Still, I can't help thinking how Josie and the gang might have fared in a similar production. We'd probably be watching movies with them today, instead of seeing the movie DVD in the bargain bin.