Drake & Josh Go Hollywood
Drake & Josh Go Hollywood is a 90-minute movie starring Drake Bell playing Drake Parker and Josh Peck playing Josh Nichols. The movie aired on television on January 6th and will be released on DVD January 31, 2006.
Plot
Template:Spoiler In the movie, Drake and Josh's parents leave to go on a ten-day cruise, leaving Drake and Josh in charge. Drake fires his band manager and Josh convinces Drake to let him become the new manager of Drake's rock band, which Drake is very reluctant to do. The two drive their little sister Megan Parker (played by Miranda Cosgrove) to the airport so she can board a plane to Denver, so she can visit her friend. She accidentally ends up on a plane flying to Los Angeles instead. Her brothers find out the mistake and follow her on another plane. Upon arriving in L.A., Megan uses her parent's credit card to order a limo to take her to an expensive hotel and book a presidential suite.
On the plane, Josh's iPod (changed on the show to a G-O) is accidentally swapped with another person's who turns out to be a criminal carrying information in his mp3 player's hard drive that will enable him to use a currency printing machine stolen from the United States Treasury Department to print counterfeit bills.
When the brothers arrive in Los Angeles, Drake goes to find their sister while Josh goes to the men's room. In the men's room, he overhears a man's cell phone conversation who desperately needs a musical act for TRL. Josh convinces him to hire Drake's band. When he gets to the presidential suite that his sister Megan checked into, he tells Drake the good news. In order to decide what song to play on the air, Josh attempts to download mp3s of Drake's songs from his mp3 player to his laptop computer. Instead, he discovers United States Treasury Department software and information including a high-definiton image of a hundred-dollar bill.
At this moment, several criminals enter the presidential suite and attempt to take the mp3 player. The brothers manage to escape with the player in Josh's possession by stealing Tony Hawk's red Viper sports car that was parked in front of the hotel with the keys in it. After a chase scene, the criminals manage to capture the brothers by impersonating FBI agents.
Megan finds them, discovers the counterfeiters plot and manages to save them by turning on large convieniently-placed electric fans to scatter piles of counterfeit currency and by calling the LAPD on her cell phone. As thanks for their roles in the capture of the criminals, Drake and Josh are given a police escort to Sunset Studios enabling them to get on the set of the television broadcast mere moments before showtime. After the successful broadcast, the man who booked Drake tells him he has talent and asks him to go to New York for a record deal.
The credits include footage of Drake and Josh driving Tony Hawk's car through Hollywood afterwards with two girls they picked up after the show in the back seats.
Trivia
After Drake and Josh find out that Megan is on the wrong plane, Josh exclaims, "You put our 11-year-old little sister on a plane to the wrong city!" Drake replies, "This is no time to panic," which Josh replies to with "This is the perfect time to panic!," an apparent homage to Toy Story, there along with various parts of the plot: two people who have little, if anything, in common get stuck purely by accident, in an unfamiliar place for the two of them.
Josh talks to the bad guys and mentions his father is a weatherman at a station that is not the fictional KDJY that was mentioned in the Blues Brothers episode, which causes Drake to reply, "That's a goof, Josh."