Xuxa Requebra

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Xuxa Requebra
Xuxa Requebra poster.jpg
Promotional poster
Directed by Tizuka Yamasaki
Written byEliana Fonseca
Cristiana Mesquita
Evandro Mesquita
Vivian Perl
Alexandre Roit
Beatriz Sanson
Wagner de Assis
Produced byDiler Trindade
Starring Xuxa Meneghel
Daniel
Elke Maravilha
Vitor Hugo
Yara Lins
CinematographyCezar Moraes
Music byMu Carvalho
Production
companies
Distributed byFox Film do Brasil
Release date
  • December 17, 1999 (1999-12-17) [1]
Running time
90 minutes
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese
Box office$4.17 million [2]

Xuxa Requebra (English: Xuxa - Shake it Up!) is a 1999 Brazilian musical romantic comedy film directed by Tizuka Yamasaki, with final script by Evandro Mesquita. His cast includes brazilian singer, TV host and actress Xuxa Meneghel, singer Daniel and Elke Maravilha as protagonists of the story, as well as the participation of countless Brazilian artists such as Carla Perez, Luciano Huck and Fat Family.

Contents

Requebra was 20th Century Fox's first Brazilian co-production and debuted in theaters on December 17, 1999. The show was watched by approximately 2,074,461 viewers and earned more than 8 million reais for its producers, according to Ancine.

Plot

The Dance Academy Two Hearts, where Nena (Xuxa Meneghel) studied, is in danger. The terrible Macedonian (Elke Maravilha), an inveterate smoker, bandit and businessman with the facade of a businesswoman, intends to take advantage of the Academy's bad financial situation to take over its facilities. But there is hope: the Requebra 2000 contest, the Millennium dance tournament, which takes place in Rio de Janeiro, and has a sponsor willing to give a large prize money that would solve the problem of the Academy. To win the tournament, the group has the indispensable help of Nena, a former student of the Academy and now a journalist of the famous daily Hora X. But Macedon is responsible for his stepson Felipe (Daniel), to hire professional dancers to beat them ruthlessly. In addition, he has Guto (Vitor Hugo) as his spy and uses his clumsy henchmen to sabotage the staff of the Dance Academy during the qualifiers.

Cast

Music

The soundtrack of the film of the same name, released in 1999 by Som Livre and Globo/Universal. [3] The album consists of songs performed by the protagonist, the Brazilian presenter Xuxa Meneghel and other artists. The soundtrack to the film "Xuxa Requebra" was released in late 1999 shortly after the release of the film. The soundtrack brings various artists such as Fat Family, Claudinho & Buchecha, Daniel, Mú Carvalho and You Can Dance. The booklet is simple, without letters, only with the credits. Fat Family's version of the song "Chegou a Festa" is different from the group's CD version. [4] And the song "Mãe é uma Só", also of Fat Family, is the version of the reduction of the film that was not used.

Xuxa Requebra
Xuxa Requebra - Album de 1999.jpg
Xuxa Requebra original score album cover art
Soundtrack album by
Xuxa Meneghel
Released1999
Genre Pop
Length87:00
Label Som Livre
Globo/Universal
Track listing – CD edition [4]
No.TitleWriter(s)Performer(s)Length
1."Requebra"VinnyVinny3:22
2."No Ponto Pra Mim"
  • Peninha
  • Elias Muniz
 Daniel 4:37
3."Efeito Dominó"
  • Sullivan
  • Dudu Falcão
Xuxa4:26
4."Só o Nosso Amor"
  • Sullivan
  • Dudu Falcão
  • Solange
  • Massadas
4:20
5."Mãe é Uma só"Nelita Oliveira Cipriano Fat Family 2:10
6."Chegou a Festa"Tapajos E.M.IFat Family4:10
7."Xereta"
  • Cacá Moraes
  • Abdullah
Claudinho & Buchecha3:38
8."Banho de Chuveiro"
  • Paulo Chamuska
  • Julinho Carioca
  • Lazinho do Pandeiro
  • Cabo Rei
Terra Samba3:44
9."Uh! Tiazinha"Vinny Tiazinha 3:32
10."Cheiro de Festa"
  • Edu Casanova
  • Tenison Del Rey
Banda Cheiro de Amor4:23
11."Pela Beira do Mar"
  • Mú Carvalho
  • Marcio Tucunduva
Mú Carvalho 
12."Bota o Bumbum Pra Dançar"
  • Kadu
  • Kall
You Can Dance4:38
13."Dois Corações"Mú CarvalhoMú Carvalho 
14."Tango Street Macedão"Mú CarvalhoMú Carvalho 
Total length:87:00

Reception

The film Xuxa Requebra made the highest grossing of a national film, in the first week of exhibition, in the 1990s in the country. [5] The film was watched by approximately 2,074,461 spectators and earned more than 8 million reais for its producers, according to Ancine. [6] [7] [2]

Critical reception

Xuxa Requebra received generally negative from critics. Clara A of website Adoro Cinema was negative in her film critique, giving a star of five, The critical consensus of the site says: And so is Xuxa in the cinema: with a simple and predictable story that wins the taste of children, even more with the artists who were famous at the time. I felt in the true show of freshmen of Chacrinha. [8] She also criticized the excess of singers who participated in the cast of the film saying: Every 20 minutes someone comes to Xuxa Break up someone to sing and make a point in the film, to increase even more success. Okay, that was nice at the time and it's a lot of relief, but calm down. She also criticized the couple formed by Xuxa and the singer Daniel saying: Not before, nor now nor at any time, Daniel was a gallant of something. And it's still the romantic pair of Xuxa. Appeal, is not it?. [8]

The critic of the site Folha de S.Paulo, was also negative in relation to the excess of participation of artists in the cast saying: "Xuxa Requebra" is less a movie and another commercial of two hours in duration. Basic concepts of cinema, such as history and narrative, do not seem to matter much. The goal is to squeeze as much merchandising as possible on the screen and advertise "TV" musicians and "celebrities" hired from the Xuxa company. [9] He defined the film as "Inaugurated the cinema of accountant" For him "There is no script, but a bad sequence of scenes, written in a hurry to give each friend of Xuxa his 15 seconds (it's a lot of people!) fame." [9] He also criticized the script and the dialogue defining them as "bland" questioning "Can not anyone write something better than" if we win the contest, I promise to stay a year without eating popcorn "or" I thought it was 15 o'clock in the afternoon"?, The little humor of the film is totally involuntary and in bad taste". [9]

Ruy Gardnier of the Portal Contratempo wrote that the film 'is a disgusting "Manichaeism, a pamphlet that more mystifies than it informs (and it must be admitted that just what today's youth lack is information), an uplifting discourse that always reaches maximum happiness in the end." for the critic, the phrase that most resonates at the end is "That was the choreography of the beating", is a sad and inconsequential flattery of the much-health-few-nerves generation, for whom, by the way, it seems that the film was made. [10] He ended the assessment by saying that Xuxa Requebra is "the cavernous portrait of the health generation, and arrogating the right to make moral of the decisions of others with the pseudointuito to educate the children against drugs, against the cigarette ends up doing the times of prejudice, of pure capitalism (that tries to criticize), of the "bruise" and the magnificent life of the young healed dancing to the sound of Vinny's "Requebra" and being moved to the sound of the litanies of Daniel". [10]

International release

Fox planned to launch the Requebra in July 2000 in Argentina, as far as we know the project has not gone out of print. [11] [12]

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