![]() ![]() As a punishment, Jennifer forces Kelly to complete the course over and over until she completes it. On the same day of the school dance, Kelly fails to make it through an obstacle course. And it’s especially difficult because Cadet Captain Jennifer Stone – described as “the meanest 16 year old in America” – wants her to keep quiet and follow the rules. From the like 20 minutes we’ve known Kelly up to this point, it’s obvious that this isn’t gonna fly with her.Īs Kelly and Jennifer butt heads, Gloria Ramos (Aimee Garcia) is dragged into it. ![]() Having come from such an unstructured school system, the adjustment is rough. It doesn’t hurt their friendship, and the movie ends with Kyle stating that “Americans come from all over,” before he performs “This Land Is Your Land” with Bonnie.Īt the height of Hilary Duff’s Disney takeover, she played the lead character in Cadet Kelly, which follows a middle school girl who’s forced to leave her New York City art school (where math is optional) behind to attend the military school where her stepfather serves as the commandant. “Well, everything’s easy for you, isn’t it?” she tells him in one scene, upsetting him as she speaks the truth. She’s incredibly dedicated to school because she wants to finish at the top of her class. Bonnie has no issues calling him out on it. While Kyle was the main focus of this movie, it’s his friend, Bonnie Lopez, who’s the true hero. He also shrinks and his hair turns orange. When he loses his charm, he begins to struggle at life. Up until this point, his family refused to tell him anything about his background. Unbeknownst to him, his mother is Irish and a leprechaun and his dad is a human. After losing his lucky talisman – entrusted to him as the youngest member of his family, which seems unwise – Kyle starts transforming into a leprechaun. There’s no other way to say it: The Luck of the Irish was weird. Ready to Run doesn’t get as much shine as other DCOMs, but the fact that Corrie broke into such a male-dominated sport is reason enough to celebrate. She cleverly figures out that he just needs to block out the noise (the taunts of the kinda bitchy horses), so she puts headphones on him during every race and turns him into a winner. (the movie literally translated this to the “confidence of horses,” which is not quite right.) Instead of using her gift to become the queen of the horses, she helps TJ (voiced by Paul Rodriguez), a horse who chokes under pressure. She earned, as her abuelita said, la confiaza de caballos. After the quadrupeds see her freeing a horse in danger of being put down, they begin speaking to her. But Corrie adamantly tells her, “I can be anything I want to be.”Ĭorrie is really passionate about riding, and that’s even before she learns she can talk to horses. When Corrie tells her mom that Hector Machado is looking for a new jockey, her mom tells her that she should become a teacher or go into a less dangerous field. Given that her dad died in a racing-related accident, her mother is, understandably, hardcore against it. She dreams of following in her father’s footsteps and becoming a jockey. ![]() Ready to Run follows 14-year-old Corrie Ortiz. Below, check out 7 characters (all of whom are women) that inspired us 90s and 00s kids, and yes, all the movies are incredibly cheesy. And while we didn’t find that many – we excluded films like Rip Girls because while Camilla Belle is Latina her character isn’t and disqualified some of the newer films (sorry, Camp Rock) – there are a few that we know we could use on our TVs today (Gabriella from Brink!). While this era saw classics like Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, Johnny Tsunami, and Halloweentown, the truth is, we hardly saw ourselves represented on the screen.īy now, Disney Channel has produced more than 100 DCOMs, so we decided to look back and find the Latino characters that played a role in shaping our childhoods. Disney Channel actually began airing television movies in 1983 (known then as Disney Channel Premiere Films), but by 1997 had rebranded them as Disney Channel Original Movies. If you were a kid in the late 90s and early aughts, you probably grew up watching Disney Channel Original Movies (DCOMs) – arguably the best TV movies the House of Mouse has ever produced. ![]()
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