Big Time Audition

Big Time Audition is the hour-long made-for-television pilot movie of the Nickelodeon television series, Big Time Rush. It is the debut film of the series film franchise. It stars Kendall Schmidt, James Maslow, Carlos Pena Jr., Logan Henderson, Ciara Bravo, and Stephen kramer glickman. It aired as a sneak PREview on November 28, 2009 at 8:30 p.m. ET, following the iCarly special, iMove Out. It is an hour-long special with the length of two regular episodes put together. The movie focuses on how four ordinary teenage friends from Minnesota get a chance to become the next chart-topping boy band, while going on an epic journey of a lifetime.

Production

Filming began in early 2009, but was not announced until October 2009. It aired on November 28, 2009 as a follow-up sneak preview to the official premiere on January 18, 2010. The movie was filmed in Los Angeles and Minnesota.

Plot

The movie begins, with four teenage high-school hockey players from Minnesota being chased down by the girl's hockey team. Earlier, 16-year-old Kendall Knight (Kendall Schmidt) suggest that they pull a prank on the girl's hockey team. 16-year-old Carlos Garcia (Carlos Pena Jr.) attempts to pull the prank but was not strong enough. Eventually 16-year-old James Diamond (James Maslow) agrees to help Kendall and Carlos. 16-year-old Logan Mitchell (Logan Henderson) helps to which makes the four boys powerful enough to get the prank done, which is turning on the sprinkler valve to spray the girls hockey team. Ending with them being chased down by the soaked, angry hockey girls into a dead-end alley and being beat up by them.

Meanwhile, hit record producer, Gustavo Rocque (Stephen Kramer Glickman) is holding a local auditions at the movie theater in Minnesota looking for his new hit pop-star. While nursing their wounds with ice-packs on the couch, watching the [...] Cat Dolls, the guys learn AbOUT Gustavo's auditions and try to get a hold of their respective moms to get them to drive them before five o'clock. When only Carlos's phone rings (only for it to be a woman wanting an estimate on illuminum ciding) The guys get their elder neighbor to come with them and use her car and have Logan drive them to the audition (Logan can only drive with an adult in the car) James and the rest of the guys run up to the talent agent, Kelly just in time before the clock hits five. Everybody is forced to audition by Kelly, Gustavo's talent scout. During the audition, Logan beatboxes, Carlos farts, James sings but a fight starts between Kendall and Gustavo when he told James he has no talent. Kendall sings in a mock-tone of Gustavo's once-boy band, "BoyQuake"'s song 'Girl to my Heart' which Kendall starts to sing since Gustavo told James that when he sing he didn't make him fall off his chair, which leads then to a fight with the two security guards with James jumping on top of them from the stage and Carlos joining in once Logan told him how much trouble he could get in. Ending with Logan joining after proclaiming "I've gotta get new friends" and then the old neighbor joining up.

The police ends up bringing the boys home. Mrs. Knight (Challen Cates) grounds them all, including Carlos, James, and Logan. Asking for an explanation, the boys tell her and Mrs. Knight simply replies with "Okay" and offers the boys sandwiches. Little sister, Katie (Ciara Bravo), asks the boys to hear the 'The Giant Turd Song'. The boys sings "Oh, you're such a turd, oh yeah, a giant turd, and you look like a turd, and you smell like a turd" until Gustavo Rocque comes to the door and asks if Kendall wants to be his new hit pop-star.

Kendall is asked if he wants to fly to L.A. with Gustavo and make some demos but Kendall doesn't accept the offer because he thinks it isn't worth leaving his friends in Minnesota.

The next day, Kendall is bugged by the guys to accept the offer. Carlos proclaiming about the sun and the beach! But most of all the girls! But Kendall proclaims that it isnt worth it without his best friends. Finally, they convince him to call Gustavo. Gustavo shows up, telling Kendall he will come with him to L.A. and make him a star. Kendall responds with a "Fine. I'll go to L.A. and cut some demos with you...If you take my buds and make us a singing group." Gustaavo, at first laughs at the idea, but when Kendall replies "Okay, so we have deal." Gustavo simply replies with "Yep" and the next day they all fly out to L.A.

The guys ride in a limousine to the Palm Woods and meet lots of people like Guitar Dude, Camille, Tyler, the Jennifers, and Lightning the Wonder Dog. The boys also find out about The Famous Palm Woods pool.

But a day later they find out that working and making music is not that easy and that they have to trade their beloved hockey pucks and roller skates for makeups and vocal recordings. the guys did all their best and name the band "Big Time Rush!" after what they have go through a big time rush!

Reception

3.650 million viewers tuned into the premiere, giving Big Time Rush some high ratings followed by the official premiere next year in January, getting 7.1 million Total viewers, and in the process, setting a new record for highest-rated live-action series premiere in Nickelodeon history.

Music

Sneak previews of tracks featured in the regular series like "Famous", "City Is Ours", and the track, Big Time Rush, were featured in the special.

Cast

• Kendall Schmidt as Kendall Knight
• James Maslow as James Diamond
• Carlos Pena Jr. as Carlos Garcia
• Logan Henderson as Logan Mitchell
• Ciara Bravo as Katie Knight
• Stephen Kramer Glickman as Gustavo Rocque
• Challen Cates as Mrs. Knight

Trivia

• This episode officially started all the story lines for the show.
• The episode is included in the iFight Shelby Marx DVD as a bonus.
• The two-part episode has a different tone since it contains elements of a feature film format; a premise that differs greatly from the usual slapstick tone of the show's episodes.
• The store that Kendall works at shares the same name that Tori Vega's first high school in Victorious, Sherwood.

External links

• Big Time Rush on Nick.com
• Big Time Rush Facebook Page
• Big Time Rush MySpace Page
• Big Time Rush on MTV.com

References

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