The movie is completely different from the books. First of all there (as far as I know)are 4 Cheetah Girls books, each having 4 volumes. As was mentioned, Angie's left out and Dorinda's race was changed, but there are so many more differences than that. Galleria was pretty much the same character in the books, but she wasn't nearly as obnoxious. Chanel's mom's boyfriend, Luke, is from France in the books (not Barcelona as in the 2nd movie), but the character Luke in the movies doesn't really exist in the books. Luke is still Juanita's boyfriend but he's just "Mr. Tycoon" and you almost never see him. Also the Cheetah Girls never leave the country in the books. Dorinda in the books, is 11 (the others are about 15),all 5 girls are freshmen but Dorinda, Galleria and Chanel goes to Fashion Industries, while Aqua and Angie go to La Gaurdia. Dorinda's family is much more developed in the books as well- the books' point of view shifts between 4 of the girls (you never read Angie's point of view which is probably why she was the one cut from the movies). The twins, Aquanette and Anginette, have a lot of family stuff going on in the books too- specifically with their father. Oh yeah and only about 20% of the plot of this movie (including characters) was actually in any of the books. The other too movies' plots weren't based on the books at all.
Sorry this is so long winded and jumbled, I just wanted to express just how VERY different the books are. They're definetely worth reading. I tried to cover the main differences but there are a lot more too. I think that's how Disney's able to call them "Disney Channel ORIGINAL Movies".
Lemonade Mouth is the most similar book-based DCOM I can think of off the top of my head. Twitches is way, WAY different though (and also a really good book series). :D
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JCrewgirl
12 years ago
They were all individual books, they didn't make them into volumes until it was republished later on.
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