first.review.

Lemonade Mouth

--Aired on Disney Channel in 2011.--

Review

    

     I was quite happy with this movie.  I felt this movie brought back the Disney Channel Magic.  It is a new sort of magic than I remember from my childhood. A different magic, but still a good magic. Obviously the film was corny, but all together a perfect blend of laughter, music, drama, tears and cuteness.

     Then again, I have always been partial to Disney Channel. I love it! Since I first discovered High School Musical I have been hooked. I’ve made it my personal goal to watch every Disney Channel Original Movie ever made. This one was especially good. I loved it!

     Lemonade Mouth is a story about five kids with separate struggles that are brought together to fight together. These five unlikely people are brought together through a majority of circumstances when they meet in detention and become a band.  They don't just become any band, they become a successful band. They have to fight to be together, to make their friendship work out. (On that note I did enjoy the "hey you guys we can work this out" line-haha-high school musical) They have to fight the school to just get a chance to be heard. They have to fight to know that every one of them is important and worth it and to become who they are.

      This movie is about being who you are. It is about standing up for what you believe in.

Lemonade Mouth made me want to get up and dance and of course encouraged me want to stand up and be proud, to make a change, to get involved and to do something great!

Cast

     This movie had a rather remarkable cast, atleast I was impressed. I have to admit I find something comforting about the familiar faces that appear regularly on Disney Channel. There is nothing like watching an old re-run of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody guest-starring young Selena Gomez, or seeing Bridgit Mendler on Wizards of Waverly Place and knowing now not only does she have her own show Good Luck Charlie, but is starring in a movie. There were quite a few faces on the screen that I recognized.

     The list of the cast was as follows; there was Bridgit Mendler, as Olivia.  Oliva is a quiet, reserved, young lady, the evenutally head-woman for Lemonade Mouth,
song-writer-extraordinaire with a hidden past. Oliva eventually shared a little spark with Wen, played by Adam Hicks.  Adam Hicks was another familiar face as the latter half of Zeke and Luther, as well as the annoying neighbor in JONAS LA.  Plus, Wen was my all-around favorite character, he was sweet and funny.  Or maybe I just have a thing for gingers.  The next character is Stella, played by Hayley Kiyoko, who was also a familiar face. I recognized her from another favorite Wizards of Waverly Place where she guest-starred as a friend of Alex's and a rebel who was a wizard bent on eliminating Wizard Tournament forever.  Next comes Charlie, played by Blake Michael. Blake was an unfamiliar face to me, but with that smile he may be much more well-known very soon.  I loved the little, unrequited romance he had going on between the other unfamiliar face, the beautiful Mo (Mohini Banjaree), played by Naomi Scott.  Although I must admit I was quite disappointed when it didn’t go anywhere, especially since I was left wanting in the romance department. 

That's all for now.:)     Defiantly cheesy, but totally worth it.

fixation

    I am fixated at the moment with the Disney Channel Stars. Why? Well, I have been thinking alot lately about what makes people obsess over these stars or over any famous person at all.  I want to know what makes girls, cry and scream when they see Justin Bieber or before him the Jonas Brothers. I want to know what gives people the illusion that they will actually someday marry said famous person, or be best friends with them. Also I just find it facinating the kind of choices these maturing stars are making, and how they justify them.

   
    There is just so much of this in the news there is Miley Cyrus (drugs and dress), Demi Lovato (eating disorder, rehab, bi-polar disorder), and the Bieber-Gomez relationship. I've been following all these stories perhaps more closely than I should, but I'm just very interested from a psychological and sociological perspective.
  
   I guess all this interest makes me obsessed too.

(credit post secret) -- and not just friends, everything!

whatcha doin'?

I'm not going to lie, I am a master at wasting time. I love wasting time. I waste time everyday. I waste time ALL the time. 

How do I waste time?  I have a few differnt ways. My favorite at the moment is watching the Disney Channel.

I know, I know. I am well-aware that I should be highly embarassed by this hobby of mine.  After all, I am 20 years old. The truth is,

• I love the Disney Channel.
• I love the good clean humour.
• I love that it actually makes me laugh
• I love that it give me some fashion ideas
• I love when it makes me smile with the display of cute on-screen romances. 

There is no doubt that my love life could be seen as pathetic.  However, as pathetic as it may appear I am very happy right now with my impeding never-ending single-ness. Despite my current life satisfaction a kiss like Joe and Stella at the end of JONAS LA or a Sonny/Chad (Channy) romance wouldn't be half bad.

Today my show of choice was Phineas and Ferb. It's a silly, little animated show that I used to under-appreciate. Now I have learned to love it.  I have learned to appreicate the funny lines that leave my younger brothers in stitches. Slowly I've began to find those boys with heads shaped like the first letter of their names and the out-of-this world scenarios they create endearing. I've grown to smile at those little catch phrases: "Ferb, I know what we're going to do today," "hey, where's Perry?" and 'whatcha doin'?"Although this show requires little concentraiton, or thought at all I no longer hate it and wouldn't mind curling up now and again with a child, still full of the simplest joys, to laugh right along and watch Candace and Dr.  Doofenshmirtz be thwarted again and again and again and again and again. 

Try it! You never know, you may just grow to love it just like me!