She insists there is absolutely no truth to the stories about the rivalry between herself and those other teen divas Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson. In Garry Marshall’s delightful “Diaries,” Moore plays an evil cheerleader who spreads gossip about the movie’s heroine (Anne Hathaway). The more they give you, the more you give back.” “It becomes a love affair with your audience. “Doing the movie was a blast, but there is no greater adrenaline rush than performing live at a concert,” says the 17-year-old, whose first CD “So Real” went platinum in just three months. Pop royalty - Hit maker Mandy Moore might be making her film debut Friday in Disney’s “The Princess Diaries,” but she’s not about to hang up her microphone just yet. I knew that people would want to see us together again in this movie.” What changed my mind was working with Jackie again. (Tucker earned $20 million while Chan was paid $15 million for the sequel.) “No, I’m just kidding. “Being offered $20 million,” he says, laughing. He earned $3 million for the first “Rush Hour.” So, what convinced Tucker to go back to work on “Rush Hour 2”? Of course, the comic could afford to relax. I wanted to do stuff that I was really going to have fun with.” I feel I’m young and I’ve got a long time to do movies, and I didn’t want to just jump out there and do any movie stuff just to do it. So, I spent the time soul-searching and growing up. “To be honest, I couldn’t find anything worth doing. “Everything that you’ve seen that a black person could be in, they offered it to me first, and I was like, “Nope, nope, nope and nope.’ “I had so much crazy stuff thrown at me,” he recalls. Tucker certainly didn’t suffer from a lack of job offers. The cops-vs.-Triads plot is a device on which to hang lots of funny business between the dynamic duo. This time around, the cocky Californian arrives in Hong Kong and immediately undergoes culture shock. While the first “Rush Hour” cast Chan as a fish-out-of-water in Los Angeles, the sequel, which opens Friday in area theaters, turns the tables on Tucker. Chris trusts me with the action comedy, and I trust him with the verbal comedy. People are curious about seeing us interact.”Ĭhan agrees, adding, “The first movie was like, “Who cares? We’re making a film.’ But Chris and me and Brett became buddies on the set this time. “It’s like a culture clash between the two of us on screen. “The movies work for one simple reason: the chemistry between me and Jackie,” announces Tucker during an interview in Los Angeles. Their current collaboration, “Rush Hour 2,” demonstrates once again how well these opposites attract. Proof of that arrived in 1998, when the $25 million action comedy “Rush Hour” captured more than $300 million at the box office. All these years later, the movie's cult status makes it a real gem to be found anytime a newbie stumbles upon it, but one of its most stealthy achievements is also the fact that Drive is an absolute must-see for any fan of the Rush Hour movies.Fast-talking comic Chris Tucker and martial-arts maestro Jackie Chan work well together. The movie's martial arts action still puts many theatrical action movies to shame, Mark Dacascos and Kadeem Hardison are still a superb, and hilarious, buddy movie duo, and the movie remains one of the earliest examples of the straight-to-video label becoming a true badge of honor. Over 20 years after its debut, Drive hasn't lost one ounce of the energy that it landed with. Add in Brittany Murphy's slow-witted but high-spirited Deliverance, literally cheerleading Toby in the motel battle, Drive was as sharp on comedy as it was on action. Drive may have had action scenes lightyears ahead of its straight-to-video format, but Toby and Malik's growing bond, the growth they experience through each other, gave the movie its heart. Toby himself also takes on more of Malik's light-heartedness, bopping along with Malik to Intellect's "Where's the Party At?" and even admonishing Malik to return to his estranged wife in a song and dance number. Malik's vexation at being pulled into Toby's conflict is the source of many of the movie's best jokes and one-liners, but Malik's confidence also grows traveling alongside Toby, with Malik coming realize that he's not the screw-up that he believed he was when he and Toby first cross paths.
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