The cast includes Xuxa Meneghel, Luigi Baricelli, Marcos Frota and Sílvia Pfeifer, as well as musical numbers with Os Travessos, KLB and Deborah Blando.
[5] After a brilliant career abroad, an international top model named Nick (Xuxa Meneghel) returns to Brazil to find her Prince Charming, whom she met through an Internet chat.
[9] "In some cases it was possible to sew the musical appearance in the plot, but many entries were due to the invitation made by Marlene in the middle of filming," says screenwriter Vivian Perl.
[9] Diler Andrade defines the insertions of musical numbers (in a non-musical film) as a "strategic marriage" between the cinematographic and phonographic industry.
[9] Vivian Perl says that Xuxa manager Marlene Mattos put the musical number on the film after conducting research on the most popular groups.
[10] According to the presenter, the film recounts a little of the story she lived when she spent three months in the United States early in her modeling career.
"[3] The film does not escape the standard of the cinematographic productions of Xuxa, There are no missing musical numbers - which, many times, arise without connection with the plot - and very, merchandising.
[12][13] the groups Harmonia do Samba, As Meninas, Os Travessos, KLB, SNZ and É o Tchan: and the singers Deborah Blando and Mauricio Manieri participated in the film.
[12] According to Vivian Perl, who wrote the story in partnership with Elizeu Ewald, the musical number serves to "illustrate a moment of introspection" of the protagonist.
[16][17] The interpretation was so intense that at that time some tabloids even published that there was no technical kiss and that Xuxa and Luigi Baricelli would have a love relationship.
Xuxa promoted a press conference in São Paulo to publicize the film in which he stated that he hoped so as "Requebra was a box office record.
"[12] The film was released on 15 December 2000,[19] TV Globo reserved four rooms of a movie complex in Rio for the exhibition, on 6 January 2001, of Popstar.
Marcelo Forlani wrote in his website Omelette critique: "In the summer of 1999/2000, Xuxa Requebra obtained the highest grossing of national productions, betting on the same formulation that the Children's Queen decided to put a new product in theaters, yes, because this feature does not have a screenplay and only serves as a huge shelf where the new goods of the brand Xuxa are exposed ... An abuse to the spectator's intelligence and to the good taste, so much the face of stick like everything is shown, always in the foreground, leaving the characters themselves in secondary positions ... From the "drafting of the script" to its completion, it was only a few weeks ago, but there are no excuses for the lack of creativity presented.