Plot
Puerto Rican music band Menudo is in Venezuela for a country-wide tour. They arrive in Venezuela prepared to visit some of that country's largest cities and re-acquaint themselves with Venezuelan fans. As the five members of the band, René Farrait, Xavier Serbiá, Ricky Meléndez, Johnny Lozada and Miguel 'Migue' Cancel, travel during this tour, they face different personal situations: Lozada hopes for a Puerto Rican girl whom he fell in love with to show up in Venezuela in time to spend time with him, Serbiá befriends the daughter of the local tour manager, Meléndez develops a throat infection during the tour and gets stranded in a hotel room by doctor's orders, then leaves the hotel to perform at a concert, and the band gets lost in a desert area, later being rescued by an Arabian businessman. They also spend time meeting the locals in charge of their tour and swimming and playing at a hotel swimming pool.
These scenes are interlaced with scenes from a concert, in which the band sings some of its hits, including Subéte A Mi Moto and Quiero Ser, and Spanish versions of some of Abba's and KISS hits.
Lozada's girlfriend arrives in Caracas just in time for them to spend a couple of days together, Xavier and his female friend decide to remain friends, and the group returns to Puerto Rico after a successful tour.
Menudo is a Puerto Rican boy band that was formed in Puerto Rico by producer Edgardo Díaz. Referred to as the "Most Iconic Latino Pop Music Band", Menudo has been ranked as one of the Biggest Boy Bands of All Time by several publications, including Billboard, Us Weekly, Seventeen, and Teen Vogue, being the only Latin band on their lists.
Rene Farrait Nieves is a Puerto Rican singer, actor, and former member of the boy band Menudo.
Ricky Meléndez is a Puerto Rican singer, lawyer and actor, best known for his tenures as a member of boy band Menudo and of El Reencuentro.
Una aventura llamada Menudo is a 1982 film featuring teen boy band Menudo and Puerto Rican actress Gladys Rodríguez. The film's soundtrack received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album.
Francisco Xavier Serbiá Queipo is a financial commentator, syndicated columnist, and news anchor of CNN Dinero at CNN en Español. Serbiá is also a former member of the boy band Menudo.
Johnny Lozada Correa is a Puerto Rican singer, actor, host, and television personality.
Miguel Ángel Cancel Vázquez is an American singer, actor and retired police officer of Puerto Rican descent who began his career with the Puerto Rico-based boy band Menudo.
Carlos Javier Rivera Masso, better known as Charlie Masso, is a Puerto Rican singer and actor. Masso is a former member of Menudo, joining the band at the height of Menudo's worldwide fame. He replaced Rene Farrait and quickly became a fan favorite with his participation on the albums of Por Amor and Una Aventura Llamada Menudo, which was the soundtrack of Menudo's second movie. Charlie recorded 14 albums with Menudo, two were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album in 1984 and 85.
Ray Reyes León was a Puerto Rican singer who was a member of the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo.
Roy Stephan Roselló Diaz is a Puerto Rican pop and gospel singer, businessman, and former member of the popular Puerto Rican group Menudo. Roy currently lives in Brazil, where he focused his musical career and built a family.
El Reencuentro was the name that six ex-members of musical group Menudo used for their comeback project remembering Menudo's golden era. Ricky Melendez, Rene Farrait, Miguel Cancel, Johnny Lozada, Ray Reyes, and Charlie Masso re-joined to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their success in Latin America, North America, Spain and several other countries in the world. They started in 1998 as an experimental project and they had an unexpected success that continued until 2015 through North and Latin America.
La Pandilla was a teen music group of the 1970s, founded in 1970 by Pepa Aguirre. The group had members of both sexes, unlike most pop groups at the time.
Sube a mi Motora is song by Menudo from their 1981 album Quiero Ser. It became arguably the album's most popular song, topping the charts in Puerto Rico, Mexico and Venezuela. It is considered by many Menudo fans to have been the group's best song ever and their signature song. Rene Farrait was the lead singer for this song.
Carlos Javier Meléndez Sauri is a Puerto Rican architect and singer who is a former member of Menudo.
Jonathan Daniel Montenegro Uzcátegui is a well known Venezuelan actor and singer. Montenegro was a member of the popular Puerto Rican boy band Menudo.
Quiero Ser (1981) is Menudo's ninth Spanish album and the second one released in 1981, featuring Ricky Meléndez, René Farrait, Johnny Lozada, Xavier Serbiá and Miguel Cancel. With this album, their popularity started rising all over Latin America.
Karina is a Peruvian-born Venezuelan Latin pop music singer, songwriter, and actress.
Lozada is an elite Spanish family originating in the provinces of Asturias,Castilla y Leon as well as "Cantabria.
El Reencuentro: 15 Años Después is the first live album to be released by the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo when they reunited in 1998 under the name El Reencuentro.
Secuestro en Acapulco-Canta Chamo is a 1983 Venezuelan-Mexican teen musical comedy film, starring the well known Venezuelan boy band, Los Chamos, as well as Mexican actor Cesar Bono, Mexican actress Lucila Mariscal, Mexican singer and actress Yuri, and Mexican actress Maria Antonieta de las Nieves. The movie was released internationally during 1983. It has a duration of 90 minutes.
