Xuxa e os Duendes 2: No Caminho das Fadas () is a 2002 Brazilian fantasy adventure children's film directed by Paulo Sérgio de Almeida, Rogério Gomes, and Márcio Vito and written by Vivian Perl and Wagner de Assis. It is the sequel to Xuxa e os Duendes (2001). Xuxa Meneghel, Ana Maria Braga, Debby Lagranha, Emiliano Queiroz, Tadeu Mello, and Guilherme Karan reprise their respective roles from the first film, joined by Luciano Szafir, Betty Lago, Vera Fischer, Deborah Secco, and Thiago Fragoso. In this sequel, Kira (Xuxa), the elf of light, is in charge of saving her friends and mankind from a curse that would petrify the hearts of lovers and end love on the face of the Earth.
The film was released in theatres on December 13, 2002. The film repeated the success of the previous and was watched by approximately 2,301,152 viewers, according to Ancine, and earned more than 11,486,623 Brazilian reals, becoming the fifth highest-grossing film of 2003 in Brazil. The accompanying soundtrack was released in January 2003.
Plot Kira (Xuxa Meneghel), the pixie of light, is back to face a new challenge. She senses that her friend, Nanda (Debby Lagranha), is in danger. Worried, call her and discover that Nanda and her cousins were attacked by a strange witch who came in search of her tears to perform a curse. Kira goes to meet the children. She tries to reassure them and meets Rafael (Luciano Szafir), Nanda's uncle. A climate emerges between the two, encouraged by children. In the wizarding world, the witches Bertilda (Cristina Pereira), Desdemona (Vic Militello), and Adastéia (Karen Acioly) make the spell capable of turning hearts in love with stones. Algaz (Betty Lago mother witch, appears and realizes that the curse is not working. She rages and says it will take a second special tear to complete the curse. Kira returns to the greenhouse and meets Cléo (Zilka Salaberry), her mentor in the human world. She needs to find out if love between two beings of different natures is possible. She decides to tell Zinga (Ana Maria Braga), the elf queen and her mother. In the way of the fairies, Kira knows the fairy Kin (Juliana Baroni) and, together, they face Téia, the witch who attacked Nanda. Kin faints, and Kira takes her to Fairyland. There she meets Queen Dara (Vera Fischer) and also Kaly (Zezé Motta). Kira finds out about the existence of a pink heart child, generated from the union between two different beings. The child is Ana, Nanda's friend, and her tear of fear completes the spell. The spell will take place on the next full moon and can only be undone in the Castle of the Witches. Unfortunately, fairies cannot enter the castle. Kira meets Mily (Cláudia Rodrigues), a fumbling little fairy. It ends up giving Kira the power to fly. Kira takes advantage and leaves for the witch's castle. The children and Rafael go to the greenhouse to find Kira. They find the Kuines and decide to go to the waterfall along with Chuchu (Luiz Carlos Tourinho) and Alface (Tadeu Mello), Kira's helpers. At the behest of Dara, Mily comes to the world of humans to ask for help from Raphael. Mily takes everyone to the magical world. The witches go to the mirror and discover that Rafael and the others are on the trail. Algaz appears and orders the pink-heart child to be captured so that the second tear is extracted. Epifania (Deborah Secco), a witch with no talent for evil, pays attention to what they say. She is the mother of Ana. Adastéia goes to the trail and catches Ana (Maria Mariana Azevedo). The spell of the fairy Mily ends, Kira falls, and she is imprisoned by a gigantic troll. Kira is saved from the clutches of the troll by Gorgon (Guilherme Karan), Raphael, and his group. They head towards the castle. Kira gets in, but her friends do not. Inside, she sees the torture that the witches do with Ana. The girl is trapped in a cage on the cauldron with the boiling potion. Kira tries to stop them but cannot. Rafael arrives and manages to save Kira with the help of Gorgon, the children, and the elf Dafnis, Ana's father. Kira and Rafael use the force of love and thus save Ana and win the witches. The castle is going to explode. Everyone needs to leave. Gorgon and the children are the first. The moment is tense; the castle explodes without Kira and Rafael leaving. Among the rubble are the two. Kira and Rafael seal their love with a kiss and, later, with a beautiful union ceremony in Faerie. Mika and Zinga are present, as well as all the other characters. Each character has his farewell story. Ana tries to see the future in a crystal ball. She sees the image of Kira, Rafael, and a child. They walk like the harbinger of a happy future.
Cast Xuxa Meneghel as Kira / Elf of the Light Luciano Szafir as Rafael (Rafa) Deborah Secco as Epifânia Thiago Fragoso as Dáfnis Susana Vieira as Witch-Mór Betty Lago as Witch-Algaz Cristina Pereira as Witch-Desdêmona Vic Militello as Witch-Desdêmona Karen Acioly as Witch-Adastéia Debby Lagranha as Fernanda Maia (Nanda) Brunno Abrahão as Daniel (Dani) Ana Maria Braga as Queen Zinga Emiliano Queiroz as King Mika Vera Fischer as Queen Dara / Mother of fairies Zezé Motta as Prophesy Kálix Guilherme Karan as Gorgon Nathália Rodrigues as Fairy Light Juliana Baroni as Kin Fairy Cláudia Rodrigues as Milly Fairy Tadeu Mello as Alface Luiz Carlos Tourinho as Chuchu Zilka Salaberry as Cléo Gustavo Pereira as Lix / Duende do tempo David Brazil as Rodim / Duende Veloz Maria Mariana Azevedo as Ana Thainá Medeiros as Gabriela Adriana Bombom as Blue Fairy Ana Paula Almeida as Yellow fairy Monique Alfradique as Pink fairy Lana Rodes as Fairy Turquoise Daiane Amêndola as Red Fairy Gabriella Ferreira as Lilac fairy Joana Mineiro as Violet fairy Letícia Barros as Orange fairy Stephanie Lourenço as Green fairy Thalita Ribeiro as Fairy Pearl
Background and development After an attempt to produce a new children's film was completely abandoned because of problems with Globo Filmes, Xuxa starred in the Xuxa Popstar film, which was a box office hit. At the same time, he fulfilled a clause in his contract with Diler & Associados in which he should make two films aimed at the adolescent public and one for the children's public. And so, began to be sketched the new film project of the presenter.
Xuxa wanted to do something different from her two previous films in the cinema: Xuxa Requebra (1999) and Xuxa Popstar (2000). If in these feature films the idea was to bring Planeta Xuxa to the cinema, privileging the musical attractions to the detriment of history, then it was sought not only to create a more consistent plot, but to create an entire universe, which had its own rules.
In this way, Xuxa tried to follow the trend of the film market at the time: to bet on a fantastic story, mixing the real world with the magical world. However, rather than betting on the fantasy genre, Xuxa wanted something that represented her willingness to retell stories to children. The idea of creating a film based on Duende came after a controversial statement by the host. In all interviews, the singer was emphatic in claiming that she had seen goblins on two occasions. Xuxa said the Goblins used to show up in their room at night. Then, one of the elves (female, according to Xuxa) cried beside her bed, leading her to believe that she should feed them. The hostess then put food on the counter in the room where she puts the elves she wins, and then the apparitions stopped. "I put fruits, raisins," he said. "They're gone." The presenter's account is controversial in the media. It was then that its manager, Marlene Mattos, decided to take something beneficial from the situation and make a movie about Duendes.
The film production became the most viewed in the history of national cinema. Three weeks after it was released, the film had already been seen by more than 700,000 people. "Xuxa e os Duendes" was the most expensive film of the Xuxa (budget of 3.8 million). Diler Trindade's goal was to reach 2.5 million viewers and earn R $10 million. Diler's prediction was almost right: the movie grossed R $11,681,917.00.
Production Still in 2001, before the debut of the first film, Xuxa guaranteed the sequel of the story for 2002, "We already have the name: Xuxa and the Elves 2 - On the way of the fairies". said the presenter. "Xuxa and the Elves" was Xuxa's most expensive film with a budget of 3.8 million. however it was surpassed by its sequence Duendes 2, that had budget tripled in more of R$5 million of Brazilian real. After losing the highest-grossing Brazilian title to City of God (2002), after leading for three consecutive years, Xuxa wanted the film to have more focus on the plot and less stock-and-share actions of recording artists such as the previous ones, With the production of A Globo Filmes and the distribution Warner, partners of the project, they invested the greatest exposure to the film so that the presenter could return to the podium. Captured HD high-definition camera, the film benefited from post-production in the studios of Tele-Image. the effects director of Tele-Image, Marcelo Siqueira, emphasizes limitations of time and budget that prevented the work from reaching a more accurate result. "The film was made from August to now, we had only 40 studio days to do the post-production effects." In comparison, he says that Tele-Image, who did the same thing in Cacá Diegues' new film, had a much longer time for God Is Brazilian - at least seven months and a year and a half of preparations. Time and budget are restrictive factors that even the commitment and creativity can not compensate, at least in full, even more in a movie like this, full of effects. Siqueira and the owner of Tele-Image, Philippe Siaretta, even refer to the castle of the movie as "R$ 1.99" (Brazil) to highlight how much the lack of money was restrictive for them. Made to the touch of the box, with a $1 million budget (Brazil), Xuxa and the Goblins 2 would require double and even triple to come out with a target and also more post-production time, according to the producers.
For Marcelo Rezende from Folha, the concept of the film is a film that aims above all to be pleasant, and the scheme in which it was assembled is of an almost militant simplicity. The intention is to create a fable. A moral tale about diversity. The elf loves a man (common, as the movie shows), and the point is to show the children that all differences do not really make any difference. Children-the probability is at least reasonable-must understand this message, because it is repeated over and over again. Almost every sequence, in infinite ways. Didatism leads everything, sets the tone and the mark as Xuxa seeks to perfect herself in the image of perfect teacher. If in Xuxa and the Xuxa Elves already wanted to secure a cast with more professional actors and fewer celebrities and recording artists, in Duendes 2, Xuxa vetoed pop singers and other "celebrities", something that was common in Requebra and Popstar, by exigency of his former manager Marlene Mattos. In the cast are actors of the Brazilian dramaturgy like Vera Fischer, Zezé Motta, Betty Lago, Thiago Fragoso, Susana Vieira, Deborah Secco, interpreting the main characters. Debby Lagranha, Emiliano Queiroz, Tadeu melo, Guilherme Karan and Ana Maria Braga are the only actors of the previous film that remain in Duendes 2. there are not any romantic pair for Xuxa, in Duendes 2, the television presenter is a romantic couple. with Luciano Szafir with whom she was married and had a daughter, Sasha Meneghel.