![]() ![]() The moral of the story, like in many Disney Channel classics, is that teamwork is such an important element in making things work and that it’s important to prioritize your passion and not let anyone take that away from you.Īs mentioned, there is a part in the film where they are trying to find easy ways to earn money to fund their upcoming competition. In the end, Daisy applies for a cool performing arts school and the team gets second place. By selling food and flowers and washing cars, the group saves up just enough money for them to finally enter the regional competition. Eventually, the whole team comes back stronger - joining competitions and earning a name for themselves. Bartlett share a heart-to-heart conversation about their lives and how they are somehow the same. Things do not improve until Daisy and Ms. Bartlett, especially upon knowing that the girls did great. After thinking that their coach doesn’t believe in them, the girls try to enter a competition by themselves - which further annoys Ms. Bartlett and the girls not really connecting well. ![]() The teacher recruits some girls for the team, one of whom is a lively girl named Yoli (Ferrera), Daisy’s best friend. This is when the dance team in school is starting to form again, led by Ms. To avoid this month-long punishment, she decides to convince the principal that she should instead spend the time doing an extracurricular activity. One day, she gets detention for disrupting her biology class with Ms. It mainly follows the life of Daisy Salinas ( Camille Guaty), a high school student who often gets in trouble in school. It is the kind of film that girls from all kinds of backgrounds can relate to, and I love that no one questioned for a minute that a character who looks like America Ferrera can dance.Like many of the best Disney Channel Original Movies, Gotta Kick It Up! is all about dancing. With more knowledge and hindsight, I couldn’t help but find it corny that the girls adopted the Cesar Chavez motto “Si Se Puede.” However, despite a few hiccups, the film’s positive message shines through, pointing out the importance of sisterhood and teamwork as well as self-empowerment. It was fun re-watching the film the other day, and I was a bit surprised to realize that the girls are in middle school because I swear when I was younger, I thought they were high schoolers. Gotta Kick It Up! is one of the few films to feature a minority in the lead roles, and it does a good job of showing a range of different types of characters and personalities, not relying too hard on stereotypes. Growing up in a multicultural household, I couldn’t help but gravitate toward a film that featured characters that look like me and my family. One of the reasons I chose Gotta Kick It Up! as our first pick is because of all the DCOMs, it’s one of the few that I can distinctly remember being excited to watch. It follows the story of a group of middle school girls, who guilt the new teacher, who used to be a dancer, into coaching the school’s dance team. The film is written and directed by Ramón Menéndez, who also wrote the screenplay for the notable Latino drama, Tortilla Soup. ![]() It stars America Ferrera (before Ugly Betty), Camille Guaty ( who we interviewed recently!), and Susan Egan. The first film up is Gotta Kick It Up!, which premiered on Disney Channel on July 26, 2002. Every Wednesday, we will revisit a Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) and share our thoughts on the film, why we loved it when we first watched it, and if the film is still as entertaining today.
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