Bratz: Starrin' & Stylin'

Bratz The Video: Starrin' & Stylin'
Promotional poster
Directed by	Nick Rijgersberg
Written by	Meg Martin Norah Pierson
Produced by	Aryeh Richmond Cary Silver Isaac Larian
Edited by	Harry Hinter
Music by	Deddy Tzur
Production companies	CinéGroupe MGA Entertainment
Distributed by	20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release date	August 3, 2004 (2004-08-03)
Running time	63 minutes
Countries	Canada United States
Language	English

Bratz The Video: Starrin' & Stylin', or simply Bratz: Starrin' & Stylin', is a 2004 Canadian-American animated teen comedy film that was produced by CinéGroupe and MGA Entertainment and released on DVD and VHS by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, and later re-released by Lionsgate Home Entertainment in 2007. It can now be found on digital online streaming on Vudu and digital download on iTunes. This is the first Bratz movie that was released.

Plot

Cloe, Yasmin, Sasha, and Jade are four best friends. Their art teacher, Mr. Del Rio, assigns them a project to express themselves. The girls ask him to give them extra time for the project, but the professor denies their petition, thus presenting them with a dilemma: Get prepared for prom night or make a project that will count for 25 percent of their yearly grade.

Each girl has a different interest: Yasmin likes literature, Cloe likes art and drawing, Sasha likes music, and Jade likes fashion. They borrow a school video camera, so they can shoot a video and explain their points of view about the types of things they enjoy and like.

A day at the beach stresses out Sasha, who has volunteered to be the school's prom committee and chairperson. Later, Cloe crashes her car in the woods when she is driving with the girls to avoid a skunk, which they have mistaken for a cat, and they call Cameron, an expert mechanic, to come and fix it.

Problems arise when Sasha is insulted in the school's newspaper column. The girls automatically blame Cameron and Dylan for telling the writer about their conversation at the beach. When the girls go shopping for prom outfits, Jade doubts her sense of fashion when she picks out an outrageous outfit the others disapprove of. After gossip appears in the school paper about Jade, they figure it was not the boys because they could not have heard about Jade's meltdown. At Cloe's sleepover, they apologize to Cameron and give him a makeover to make up for their accusations. Later that night, Jade accidentally leaves the video camera on, and someone can be seen walking around the room writing in a notepad.

The next day at school, everyone is going bonkers over the picture of Cameron during the makeover the girls gave him. He blames Cloe and tells her to pick up her car because he is not going to the prom after.

The girls try to figure out which one of them has been betraying their secrets, and they suspect that Yasmin could be the possible culprit when they claim she knew about Sasha's frustration with the prom preparation, and was the only one who consulted Jade at the mall about her fashion sense issues and had access to the video camera the night before. She was writing the columns as a ghostwriter. When she confesses to the rest of the girls, they get mad at her and ignore her. The girls try to forget about Yasmin by going to the spa but have a terrible time without her. They admit they were the ones who had given her the idea to write more interesting stories.

Yasmin returns and apologizes, explaining that people used to comment that her column was boring, and that after she spread gossip about people around school, those who knew she was the ghostwriter made her feel important. Her friends apologize to her in return for their own comments and they all forgive each other. Cameron forgives Yasmin after she explains the whole thing to him.

The girls get ready for prom and Cameron arrives to return Cloe's car to her after eventually fixing and giving it a makeover. He also eventually apologizes to her for falsely accusing her of embarrassing him in the school newspaper and the two reconcile.

On prom night, the caterers arriving 2 hours later due to a traffic jam, the photographer quitting to become a painter, and the DJ being home sick with a fever threatens to ruin the night. The girls come up with a plan for a do-it-yourself prom: making a disco ball work, setting up balloons, using their video camera to take digital pictures, preparing their own food, playing their own music, and turning an empty room into a dance hall. Jade is elected prom queen while Dylan is elected prom king.

After their video, which included the prom night dance, was shown to their art professor and the whole class, he gave the four girls an A-plus on their project.

Voice cast

• Nikki Kaffee as Cloe
• Crystal Scales as Sasha
• Jillian Thompson as Jade
• Janice Kawaye as Yasmin
• Ogie Banks as Dylan
• Yuri Lowenthal as Cameron
• Kate Higgins as Meygan
• Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Dana

All of the voice actors were uncredited. The rest of the voice cast, aside from the ones listed are Katherine Cohn Beck, Bishanyia Vincent, Ines Vaz De Sousa, and Danielle Baynes, who were also uncredited.

External links

• DVFverdict review Archived 2008-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
• Entertainment.kaboose review
• Digitallyobsessed review
• NYTimes review Archived 2012-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
• epinions review Archived 2009-07-10 at the Wayback Machine