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Lemonade Mouth is a 2011 musical drama film[1][2] based on the book of the same name by Mark Peter Hughes.[3] The film was directed by Patricia Riggen and written by April Blair, and stars Bridgit Mendler, Adam Hicks, Hayley Kiyoko, Naomi Scott and Blake Michael. The Disney Channel Original Movie tells the story of five high school students who meet in detention and form a band to stand up for their beliefs and to overcome their individual and collective struggles. It premiered on April 15, 2011 on the Disney Channel.[4] It has been met with generally positive reviews, with some praising it for its many positive themes of honesty, integrity, and self-expression, and for its emphasis on the importance of the arts and of family and friendship.[1] Other reviews have described it as a "typically innocuous Disney channel flick."[5] The soundtrack was released on April 12, 2011.

Plot

Five high school freshmen: Olivia White (Bridgit Mendler), Mohini "Mo" Banjaree (Naomi Scott), Charles "Charlie" Delgado (Blake Michael), Stella Yamada (Hayley Kiyoko), and Wendell "Wen" Gifford (Adam Hicks) all meet in detention, where the supervisor and music teacher Ms. Reznik (Tisha Campbell-Martin) rants over the school principal Brenigan (Christopher McDonald) having moved all extracurricular activities to the school basement to make room for a new gymnasium. While in detention, the students start tapping out a beat and play instruments, and Olivia sings "Turn Up the Music".

The next day, the band forms with Olivia as lead vocalist, Stella as lead guitarist, Mo as bass guitarist, Wen as keyboardist, and Charlie as drummer,[6] but they are unable to choose a band name. At school, Olivia gets cornered by Ray Beech (Chris Brochu), lead singer of a rival band, Mudslide Crush, who begins questioning and bullying her. The rest of the band interferes and Stella spits her lemonade onto Ray. Ray refers to Stella as "lemonade mouth" and Olivia, the narrator, states: "And that is how we got our band name."

The band is later shocked to see that the unique lemonade machine, "Mel's Organic Lemonade", is scheduled for removal. When Mo sees her boyfriend, Scott Picket (Nick Roux), the guitarist of Mudslide Crush, with his friend Jewls, she is devastated and leaves him. Meanwhile, Olivia and Wen meet to work on a song together and bond. At the Halloween bash, Lemonade Mouth performs "Determinate." After the performance, Stella makes a speech opposing Brenigan's decisions and encouraging self-expression to the supportive crowd. Angered, Principal Brenigan shuts them down and calls them to his office the next day. He compliments their talent as a band, but forbids them from playing at school again. The next day, the band sees posters and banners all around the school supporting Lemonade Mouth, which raises their spirits. They also discover that "Determinate" is playing on the local radio. Shortly after, however, things go downhill: Mo gets sick, Charlie breaks his fingers, Wen injures his eye, and Olivia loses her voice.

Stella calls everyone to the school, where she is protesting the removal of the lemonade machine. The group gets into a heated argument with one another and fight with the men removing the lemonade machine. Police arrive and they are brought to a holding cell to wait for their parents. After contemplating giving up, the band agrees to stick together and perform at Rising Star (an upcoming "battle of the bands" where the winner wins a record deal), even though they realize that they will not win the competition.

At Rising Star, Mudslide Crush performs "Don't Ya Wish U Were Us". Lemonade Mouth takes the stage and tries to perform "Determinate," but no one except Stella can play, due to their injuries. Discouraged, they start to leave. The audience then begins to sing "Determinate" together in support of the band. Fed up with Ray, Scott leaves Mudslide Crush and plays with Stella, joining Lemonade Mouth as they stand together in tears, watching the audience sing for them. In narration, Olivia reveals that although they did not win the competition, they won something bigger that night. Things start patching up again for the band: Mo and Scott get back together; Charlie, who had previously liked Mo, accepts this and decides to aim his attention at a girl who likes him; and Wen accepts his new stepmother.

At Wen's father's wedding, the man sitting next to Stella tells her that he was in a band once and now runs an organic lemonade company that has recently become very successful. Stella recognizes him as Mel, and he agrees to donate a music hall for Ms. Reznik and everything works out after all. Olivia mails the entire story to her father, whom she has not seen in years because he is in prison. The film closes with Lemonade Mouth performing "Breakthrough" at Madison Square Garden, with Scott as their new additional guitarist. An extended version has additional scenes.

Cast

Production

The movie was filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico.[9] The names of eight characters in the book were changed for the film: the character of "Olivia Whitehead" was shortened to "Olivia White", "Wendel Gifford" changed by one letter to "Wendell Gifford", "Stella Penn" changed to "Stella Yamada", "Mohini Banerjee" changed to "Mohini Banjaree", and "Charlie Hirsh" changed to "Charlie Delgado".

Reception

Family-oriented reviewers at Common Sense Media praised the film for its themes of honesty, empowerment, overcoming adversity, self-expression, and standing up for what one believes in, and for its emphasis on the importance of the arts and of friendship and family.[1] Other reviews were not so kind, with some critics (mainly more "traditional" fans of The Walt Disney Company itself) claiming that Lemonade Mouth is a "typically innocuous Disney Channel flick" that is a "hopelessly dumbed-down endeavor." The film holds an 6.7 rating, making "Fair" (based on 17 votes) on TV.com.[10]

Lemonade Mouth was watched by 5.7 million viewers on its premiere night.[11] ranking as the No. 1 TV Telecast among Kids 6–11 (2.3 million/9.4 rating) and Tweens 9–14 (2.1 million/8.5 rating), and cable's No. 1 original movie of 2011 among Total Viewers.[12] With DVR viewing included, its total was 7.1 million viewers.[13]

Soundtrack

Main article: Lemonade Mouth (soundtrack)

Sequel status

In 2011, the author of Lemonade Mouth said that he has been working on a sequel.[14] Also, Blake Michael has said: "It’s all up to the fans, it’s in their hands. If people enjoy it and they love it and they want more, they’ll get it. I think Disney is just a great organization in general and they’re always one step ahead of the game. So you never really know what’s gonna happen."[15] On June 15, 2011, it was announced during the 2011 Licensing International Expo that Lemonade Mouth 2 is in the works.[16] However, on April 6, 2012, Chris Brochu announced on his Twitter account, that the sequel was no longer going into production.[17] On April 19, 2012 a Facebook page called 'Save Lemonade Mouth 2' was started to attempt to reboot the film.[18]

International release

A local premiere was held in the author Mark Peter Hughes's town of Wayland, Massachusetts. It was broadcast live by the town public access station, WayCAM.TV, by local students.[5]

The cast from the film have performed on The View, Good Morning America, So Random! and UK's Daybreak.

Country / Region Network(s) Date premiere Title
 United States Disney Channel USA April 15, 2011 Lemonade Mouth
 Canada Family Channel and Vrak.tv April 22, 2011, June 24, 2011 (What's What Edition)
 Israel Disney Channel Israel April 28, 2011 'לימונייד מאות (Lemonade Mouth / not translated)
 France Disney Channel France May 3, 2011, June 21, 2011(Extend Edition) Lemonade Mouth
 Netherlands Disney Channel Benelux May 13, 2011
 Belgium
 Italy Disney Channel Italy
 Bulgaria Disney Channel May 14, 2011 Лимонадената банда
 Romania Disney Channel Romania Lemonade Mouth
 Hungary Disney Channel Hungary Limonádé
 Czech Republic
 Slovakia 		Disney Channel (Central and Eastern Europe) Lemonade Mouth
 Poland Disney Channel Poland Lemoniada Gada
 Ukraine Disney Channel (Ukraine) Лимонадний голос український дубляж (Lemonade Voise)
 Kazakhstan Disney Channel (Kazakhstan) June 1, 2011 Лимонад дауысы казак дубляжы (Lemonade Voise)
 Kyrgyzstan Disney Channel (Kyrgyzstan) June 1, 2011 Лимонад дуыс киргиз дубляжы (Lemonade Voise)
 Russia Disney DVD, Disney Channel (Russia) May 17, 2011, April 7 , 2012 Лимонадный
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Disney Channel May 21, 2011 Lemonade Mouth
Arab League Arab World Disney Channel Middle East
 Australia Disney Channel Australia
 New Zealand Disney Channel Australia
 Turkey Disney Channel Turkey
 Montenegro
 Serbia Disney Channel (Serbia)
 Germany Disney Channel Germany May 27, 2011 Lemonade Mouth – Die Geschichte einer Band

(A Story of a Band)

 Republic of China (Taiwan) Disney Channel Taiwan May 28, 2011 檸檬大嘴巴 (Lemonade Mouth)
 Philippines Disney Channel Asia June 12, 2011 Lemonade Mouth
Indonesia Indonesia
Singapore Singapore
Malaysia Malaysia
Vietnam Vietnam
 Japan Disney Channel Japan July 16, 2011 レモネード・マウス
 Brazil HBO Family August 16, 2011
August 17, 2011 (DVD) 		Lemonade Mouth: Uma Banda Diferente (A Different Band)
 Argentina
 Colombia
 Chile
 Mexico
 Ecuador
 Venezuela
 Peru
 Uruguay 		Disney Channel Latin America Only on DVD since October 30 Lemonade Mouth
 United Kingdom
 Ireland 		Disney Channel UK and Ireland September 16, 2011 (Standard Length) Dvd Release – September 26 & October 2011 (Extended/singalong/what's what editions)
 Spain Disney Channel Spain November 25, 2011
November 30, 2011 (DVD)
 South Korea Disney Channel Korea December 1, 2011 레모네이드 마우스
 Greece Disney Channel Greece May 21, 2011 Lemonade Mouth
NET September 10, 2011 Παγωμένη Λεμονάδα (Frozen Lemonade)
 Portugal Disney Channel Portugal November 4, 2011 Lemonade Mouth
 Russia Disney Channel Russia April 7, 2012 Лимонадный рот

References

  1. ^ a b c "Lemonade Mouth – Television Review". Common Sense Media.
  2. ^ "Lemonade Mouth (TV 2011)". IMDb.
  3. ^ Disney preps next high school musical. hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference DCM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ a b [1]. Retrieved July 31, 2011.
  6. ^ Lemonade Mouth – Meet the characters. disney.go.com. Retrieved April 3, 2011.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Lemonade Mouth," A Disney Channel Original Movie Set To Premiere Friday, April 15 on a Disney Channel. Retrieved April 5, 2011.
  8. ^ Bob Tremblay (April 3, 2011). Film: Wayland author's 'Lemonade Mouth' opens wide. Metro West Daily News. Accessed 2012-01-16.
  9. ^ Lemonade Mouth, A Disney Channel Original Movie, Set to Premiere Friday, March 25 on Disney Channel. thefutoncritic.com.
  10. ^ Lemonade Mouth at TV.com
  11. ^ Friday Cable Ratings: History's American Restoration Leads Demo; Disney's Lemonade Mouth Tops Viewing + Sanctuary, Smackdown and More – tvbythenumbers.com
  12. ^ Disney Channel Squeezes Sweet Success with Lemonade Mouth Written By Robert Seidman, April 18, 2011
  13. ^ Disney Channel's Lemonade Mouth Gains an Additional 1.5 Million Viewers with a Week of DVR Playback – tvbythenumber.com
  14. ^ ""Lemonade Mouth" author Mark Peter Hughes already working on sequel to this Disney Channel Original Movie". Jimhillmedia.com. Retrieved 2011-05-14.
  15. ^ "Disney Channel "Lemonade Mouth 2"". Disnology. 2011-05-05. Retrieved 2011-05-14.
  16. ^ "Disney Channel Original Movie "Lemonade Mouth 2" and "Shake It Up" In Development". Disney Channel Medianet. June 16, 2011. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
  17. ^ See
  18. ^ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Lemonade-Mouth-2/290990194317169

External links

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