Lemonade Mouth is a Poorly Scripted Fever Dream 😬

lemonade mouth is the 2011 disney channel original movie that follows five teens and their stupid little family problems as they form a band that shakes up the whole school and tells the world i've got arms and i'm not afraid to flail them unified by the magic of a very sour looking lemonade these outcasts learn that when there's nothing real to fight against in your life you can simply create your own problems and try to solve those like what the cia did with the crack epidemic but despite its underdeveloped conflicts convoluted character relations and confusing young adult story structure i can't help but smile every time these kids magically compose a song from their jail cell bond over soft drinks or angrily use their voices to tell the world all vending machines matter so i hope you're thirsty for a tart glass of fever dream and another lemonade flavored installment of clip breakdown [Music] hello television viewers my name is nick thank you so much for joining me once again on my channel for another installment of clip breakdown this is the playlist wherein we take some of our favorite tv movies movies and other such content and a bridget into short concierto pieces that we can observe like conductors of a hell orchestra that's what we're doing today looking at lemonade mouth a movie that you guys have requested many a time and i love i saw this when it first came out and i was like what it feels like they wanted to make another phenomenon like camp rock or high school musical but forgot to put any of the money music or coherent story lines behind it but before we get into it make sure you give this video a big thumbs up if you want to see even more dcom breakdowns just like this one look at this arm motion but most importantly if you're new to my channel i would love to have you click that subscribe button right down here that way you never miss new videos from me i upload two new ones every week so turn on those notifications if you want a notification every time i upload also i've got merch shout out to nicki minaj it's pink friday you dig i also have a patreon where you can sign up for exclusive bonus content and other fun extras delivered right to you every month for some reason this movie decides that starting with one flashback wouldn't be lazy enough so we get this sort of concert off the top that frames us up for the movie the story of how our band came to be all started right yeah oh so it's like the breakfast club but even more i don't care about it the movie begins with all of our kids in detention i mean i don't know why we're starting the movie with them about to go on stage for a concert and then have them flash forward to detention it seems like couldn't you just have the movie start in detention whatever either way we get introduced to all of our characters stella yamada lead guitar when gifford keyboard moe banjury face charlie delgado drum god and me olivia white the frail caucasian female whose perspective offers an entry point for racist americans bridget mendler is who plays olivia white our white ass lead here but the real star is obviously kaylee kiyoko who plays stella she is seriously a queer icon and i believe probably a lot of people's sexual awakening in this movie she has the most badass attitude throughout this whole movie stella is the moment we're gonna clean up around here we're gonna unpack and all right take your time mrs music teacher the school nurse says she's gonna start charging you for blood pressure checks we're gonna clean up around here we're gonna show the school that music matters this the music teacher is at an 11 the whole time have you considered switching to a decaf tee this teacher who is watching them all in detention is annoyed because they have a horrible music room because i guess it's bad because you can hear a toilet flush that is it but if i'm gonna tell you this right i need to go back to the beginning so you admit these first two flashbacks were not the correct place to start the movie great as long as everyone agrees with me we can move forward peacefully also if it makes it gross that you can hear a toilet flash then i live in the sewer because i can hear when my neighbors flush their toilet call me pennywise the dancing clown you want a balloon georgie so i hate that we had two flashbacks there like seriously just start the movie where the movie begins i don't need to know that they become superstars later on in fact it would be more satisfying if i didn't know that girl i don't know who i'm saying girl too the writer of this script april blair too many flashbacks but let's meet our characters anything that happens in this movie it has to happen five times to each of our characters in the band so bear with me i know this is hard transferring to a new school a month into the year [Music] check out the new girl you can say what you want young man but i could see that the three of you were instantly intrigued by stella's dominant top energy that guy's like i normally only feel as confused when the soccer coach yells at me there's a new coach in town baby and she wears a safety pin shirt meanwhile we're meeting wen wendell he's another character that's his name we're gonna have to deal with it he's played by adam hicks who is popular on the disney channel in the early 2010s have fun don't you think it's a little weird that your girlfriend's still in college she's 28 when she's just taking a photography course and she just happens to love taking pictures of my 50 year old ass is that a problem for you son the dad is dating a 28 year old that's like a year younger than me the dad looks to be i don't know in his late 40s that seems like the kind of thing you can do more easily when you don't have kids that's not weird in west hollywood where i live as long as everyone's a legal adult i could be married to the man in the moon and you would have to sit there and watch son sydney wants chinese food let's watch sydney's favorite show can't pick you up from piano practice sydney called hey that wasn't our fault sydney only has a two-hour ovulation window because of her yoga vitamins next we meet this um drummer kid why do i not know his name he's very inconsequential i think he's supposed to be the heartthrob of the thing but to me i'm like meh someone's gonna disagree with me out there come for me come for me also a general note for this movie the music is not nearly as exciting or catchy or memorable as like camp rock or um high school musical so the the drummer's name is charlie so next we meet his family pressure are you excited charles soccer tryouts are today oh right your mother thought you might like to have this with you today it was your brother's mom i don't have enough arms to carry around my drumsticks and my dead brother's basketball or whatever just kidding the brother is not dead which is supposed to be the joke here tommy scored the winning goal at state finals with that ball what are you crying for tommy's just away at college because she found his instagram and he's been posting pictures from a bar called bone shed she said maybe he's just thinking about getting a dog next we meet mohini or mo for short who struggles to live up to the expectations of her indian father you need to speak to your teachers about extra credit get your gpa up for the college application is that that lipstick you're wearing um it's a tinted lip balm at best daddy angry no bubba because you're too young for that sort of thing i'm really about to get disowned over my mango eos right now do dads not know what it's like to have lips dads will really just be walking around here with their lips flaking off in sheets of sandpaper and then they're gonna yell at a daughter just for putting some vaseline on them okay time to meet our main main girl for some reason bridget mendler's olivia she's just a buffoon she's just a clumsy innocent little girl who's clumsy and pure [Music] honey that mess didn't require you to sit on the ground in your skirt okay this is why you keep getting ringworm the kids just struggle to be themselves outside of their parents control [Music] she really just applied that line comb juicy tube looked in the mirror and said [ __ ] you dad also she's really out here acting like a baddie over the iphone strum ring tone in the principal's office stella is meeting her new school principal who is played by that guy who's always a jerk in every movie and we start to learn a little bit more about her personality i'm afraid that shirt is what held together with safety pins like an old-timey diaper she said if you take a deep breath you'll also notice it's soaked in baby piss we're in public school now bro i don't give a sh he's basically like you can't have a shirt that's saying you're gonna question authority because i'm the authority which i mean like most schools wouldn't really care as long as her shoulders aren't showing they're not going to make her change what about freedom of expression just cover up for the day okay oh sure mom then you get to go to work in your halter top like it's friday night at olive garden i see how it is the double standards are sickening in this school in mesa high school mesa high school where the kids cannot play the way they want throughout this whole like i guess we're just seven minutes into the movie i'm really not understanding that the school is like this super oppressive place like maybe they could have done a few more things to show that this guy has this place running like a tight ship as he says like the kids are marching down to school and hallways everything looks really drab they can't they have to dress up really neatly like make this school help tell the story that this place is oppressive and instead stella's like you got this place run like a tight ship how come that girl and her boyfriend are escaping pointing to mo who's on the security screen mo has this boyfriend who's in a band with the blonde guy who was talking at the beginning of the movie don't worry about that moe's boyfriend is always trying to be like come ditch school with us and come to rehearsal so he's got her doing all this crazy stuff that gets mo scented attention now we get into the part of the movie where it's explaining why everybody goes to detention like we have to get through all of these stupid obstacles just to get to the part where they sing a song here's what gets when in trouble sorry to interrupt i have your folder you must be wendell's mother she's not my mom okay are you kidding me look at her they're acting like this normal looking woman just walked out of the red light district into their classroom some kid was like nice concert vest out of frustration and embarrassment wendell calls the teacher stupid he's like that hot [ __ ] isn't my teacher stupid and so he gets detention mo gets detention for sneaking out even though her boyfriend gets off with just a warning because he's on the soccer team that is a good indication that the principal only cares about the sports teams and doesn't care about anyone who's interested in the arts so that double standard there definitely came through but we needed more stuff like that to reinforce it more unfairness i think for example maybe the athletes got to leave school or they get to eat better lunches or something like that make the line more stark between the us and the them bridget or what's her name stupid olivia i don't love this character i'm so sorry and i'm gonna say awful things about her and her dumb white knees this whole thing but she's so sweet and nerdy that she's reading a book in her stupid closet i don't like her what can i say are you nobody too [Music] detention for being too cute silly smart girl who's just so conventionally attractive me me me emily dickinson wasn't hot okay so don't read her and think you know what's up at an assembly we learned that the school is really heavily funded by a sports drink company the drink that sneezes in your face turbo blast apparently paid for the whole gymnasium and for the um i guess like the scoreboard as well so the principal is obsessed with sports blast sports blaster thor's turbo blast a sports blaster is when your dildo's made of silicone just kidding pretty much right off the bat stella starts getting harassed by these popular girls who don't have a name and don't have a defined character they're just like part of the evil at the school not great character development it's okay it's okay it's okay also people were telling me to change the strap of my water bottle i didn't but i already got pasta sauce on it don't be mad empowerment that's right why don't you uh enable find another seat why don't you find out what it feels like to tumble down five rows of aluminum bleachers scamanda it's annoying how she was just like hi she was ready to make a friend with this cute blonde girl she turned out to be a scheming little blue blue blue blue blue uniform cheerleader whose dad loves her well stella's had enough of this unfairness and she stands up and uses her voice this is how she gets detention my shirt my decision i think the chant usually goes my body my choice just because it's a little less specific to you and your homemade t-shirt for sparking a mini revolution stella has to report to detention in the basement where not just the bad kids go but pretty much any kid who doesn't fit into the sports loving school binary this is the underground robotics club shakespeare society chess club ballet athletes art club school newspaper av club anything that doesn't fit principal run against mold you'll find it down here pretty sure this school's basement is actually just the first floor of the school there seems to be like a classroom for everyone here so i'm not sure why they're making it seem like such a bad thing they're like oh the science club has to go in this science room oh the ballet class has this huge ballet room is because we don't belong i think they could have done more to make this seem like the kids didn't have what they needed instead of just making it seem like we just have to be down here and they could have done it all in the form of sight gags if they're like oh here's the art class and it's like kids painting with finger paints on the wall or just like doing coloring books or kid stuff and then they're like oh here's photography class and it's people pretending to take pictures and they're like that would look so cool if we had film i bet or the home classes just mixing with empty bowls and they're like oh i can't wait to try this with sugar then it's funny because it's like oh the school is just getting money for sports and stuff and even though they have tons of kids interested in this stuff they don't have materials they need to pursue these other creative skills so anyway this young man gave us a much too long tour of the entire basement like we didn't need all that you could have used that screen time for something a lot quicker and more satisfying it's all just to get stella to the basically the door of her detention room which is right next to this mel's lemonade machine that all of the kids stop at get ready because this is where we cram that lemonade portion into the movie that doesn't really ever fit anywhere nicely there is a moment where the stars align creating that perfect union [Music] this was that moment the moment we all got botulism from those weird-ass cans i looked up these bottles because i remember thinking oh those are cool types of cans when this movie came out and they still sell these cans there are certain monster drinks and european drinks that come in these aluminum and plastic cans but they're they never really took off in the u.s like we would have thought i think because they don't really have a great record for like recyclability someone give me one of those cans though when i first watched this movie i thought the lemonade looked delicious but now it looks a little too bright for me it looks like it would be too sweet what do you think would you drink mel's organic lemonade anyway that doesn't really mean much the fact that they all got a lemonade before going into this detention maybe it meant more in the novel that this movie is based off of i'm not sure anyway the kids are alone in detention sitting around trying to clean and they start to slowly realize in the most cliche way possible that they're all into musa love the passion for music kids but maybe don't spray windex in each other's faces they all just like get up and grab their instruments of choice and they're like we got this stella is going off with her rhythmic [Music] portion well i feel like she goes like this at one point like honey no eat a banana you're shaking bridget our shy girl whose name is actually olivia i keep calling her by her real name because we're such close friends um she joins in with her vocals even though she's too shy to sing in front of [Music] people was kind of expecting it since this was the first scene you showed us in the movie also you really just had lyrics ready to go for this improvised jam look around who'd have thought we'd all be here dusting up this trombone it's the beginning of the year and i'm dancing hard got detention with my friends and i love the way we're gonna make the story and oh that's them but i don't know what this they're actually singing a song about letting the music move you [Music] oh we should have let her practice her lowercase letters before we shot this homeschooling you know the teacher comes in and hears them all being like turn up the music come on come on turn up the music anything where you can do that i'm into it anything like this or that where i get to flex my wrists that's where i'm feeling real at home okay gay the music teacher is all up in it you're banned we're not a band we don't even know each other which makes those performance-ready backup vocals you just whipped out even more unbelievable this movie doesn't even try to make realistic depictions about the songwriting process they're like oh is this a guitar here comes the sun like you didn't write that how did you write that so fast the teacher suggests that they could even sign up for the rising star competition which is a local talent show where in the top band gets a record deal i think it would have been more exciting if they made the prize of rising stars something that was a little more specific to their conflict about the principle not putting enough money into the art like you get like some sort of 100 000 school donation see i can hear a toilet flushing next door right now oh this music room is garbage oh so the winner of rising star maybe they get like a hundred thousand dollars donated to their school's art program so that everybody can learn the craft they can get food for homework they can get paints for the art class they can get a music room that works because they pretty much lose sight of like the rising star competition right away it's just something they float at the beginning i'll explain as we go making tomorrow stars today making the making siri what's the easiest way to sterilize a teenager no good matches we'll figure that out later like everyone is pretty much down to play their instruments and make music but olivia she's always holding everyone back i would be like you know what i don't care we can find another skeletal white girl the last time i performed on stage was my first grade recital and five minutes into baba black sheep i threw up down mikey nichols back honestly if one bad performance as a child is enough to scare you away from the stage forever i'm not going to twist your arm we still got enough blonde singer songwriters to saturate the market we're good also you just sang in front of five total strangers this movie is two hours long and this woman they couldn't even make a conflict out of this woman singing in front of these new friends for the first time she just started going dusting not dusting it would have been so cool if they were like all playing their instruments together and they heard her humming and they're like are you a singer and she's like well i write words but i'm i can't sing and they were like come on sing sing sing and she doesn't want to and maybe then they realize they all are drinking the same lemonade and they're like well it doesn't matter anyway we've all been relegated to the basements like this lemonade machine just like everyone else who likes to do art here i guess we're the outcasts cheers to being the outcast glug glug glug and that makes olivia be like all right i'm gonna sing let's sing i think that would have brought the lemonade into the story a little bit more clearly that it's like oh they all bonded over being too shy or being not loved by the rest of the school and that gave her the confidence to be like i'm gonna be myself and sing my song sing my song to the world about how stupid my whole life is but no we get it this way bridget's basically like i'm never gonna sing in front of people okay we just can't possibly do it all right fine i guess you don't have that in you basically the teacher is like you guys deserve to be heard which i think is the message of the whole movie like oh you know make your voice be heard we're gonna dip our toes into everybody's home life real quick all you need to know is that olivia lives with her grandmother and she has an old cat who's not eating back to wendell and his dad's young girlfriend we're going off for a ride wanna come no i don't like to ride since when don't you like to ride your horse uh since it got that brain infection and it can only run in circles now i don't know if it's supposed to be like a relatable struggle that this kid doesn't want to ride his horse but he's like come on now winston ride your horse with us mo is practicing the violin at her house under her dad's watchful eye and charlie's mom is always annoying i'm like go straight in your hair lady we don't need you here you're never gonna make it to stanford with your brother whacking away at these drums every day are you i don't know mother why don't we ask someone who's actually been to college instead of just having you assume that back at her house stella continues to be you know an activist of all types how can you eat that imagine how that poor fish felt oh you empathize with sea creatures is that why your hair is shaped like a fish bowl so stella's whole home issue is probably the least serious out of everybody's and the least defined she feels like her whole family is a bunch of overachievers and she's not smart enough to hang with them her dad is curing cancer her mom is some sort of business person even her little brothers are toy whizzes they like can invent stuff they mention all of this so quick you could really miss it it just doesn't feel earned enough to me because she has her own thing that she's excelling in it would feel better if she actually put this music part forward as like her thing that she's trying to do is like mom listen to this guitar riff that i'm doing and the mom was like not now sweetie i'm trying to be on the phone and your stupid-ass music is getting in the way of my ears instead she's trying to convince her family like i can do whatever i want to i could start a revolution that's a nice deer call me when you get through the battle with that broccoli floret in your mouth barbara sue crunching down on it like you're like your little bunny fufu the next day all of the band members who soon to be band members rather get a text saying to meet stella at the pizza place this is dante's pizza pleat pot dante's pizza pizza dante's pizza please a pizzeria for ya i signed a step for rising star this morning we're not experienced enough which is why i also signed us up for halloween fashion great can we get some dialogue from somebody without a greasy mouth full of pizza stella signed them up for the halloween bash in order to get them ready for the ins rising star contest down the line so they get to it with their first rehearsal but things aren't going as smoothly as they would have hoped right off the bat they're quitters shut up stella please don't wait [Music] wow the songwriting process is so organic for them it's almost like effortless magic when guardium leviosa we're singing a song so like for two seconds they're all playing different styles of music and mo is like i'm classically trained this is not for me couldn't we have had something music based that showed them kind of breaking through like maybe mo was like i can't do your rock and roll bass i can do this and start playing the cello and then the drum guy starts adding a beat to it and they're like oh we can remix all of our sounds are different but together they make something beautiful and original like they could have built that into the music instead of having them just i'll be like you know what we are done fighting playing perfect pop music later on moe's boyfriend is mad because his band with that blonde guy half their set was taken away to make room for this new band that's coming in and mo is like well i'm in the new band and he's like come on man my music is important to me and she's like well mine is to me it's a lot i mean like so many conversations in this movie there's so little songs and so little action that is just like stop talking anyway we get the we get the second song in the thing it's not from the band lemonade mouth but it is from those two blonde kids in the school [Music] excuse me did you just start your number by scrambling out of that parked car like a haunted house actor that's a little too much theater mama pull it in we're in a warehouse they like couldn't figure out how to get the car to drive up for it so like we'll just start from the park car kind of a beastie boys feel or like a new kids on the block kind of rapping thing for most of this song then they try to give you just all the pop punk feels with this chorus this song is inflaming my white guilt that's how bad that's where we are but everyone in the school is like yeah they're the best band ever i love the way they high kick so back to the basement with our detention group i think now they just practice down in the basement in this new music room which again i think it's confusing that the jocks are treated more favorably than the musicians but the jocks are also musicians do you see the problem it could even be separate characters like we have the bad soccer player and we have the brunt man for this rock band who thinks he's better than that but whatever the outcasts are the outcasts the other kids are the cool kids that's all you gotta know okay i see everyone brought their official underworld badges yeah we're subterranean and we're proud like the ninja turtles but with rotten little lemonade teeth see like if this type of toast was something they did before every meeting to be like we're the outcasts we don't care to being the outcast and it was something they did every time they played like a callback then i would be like oh the lemonade plays such a big part in this because it symbolizes them as being outcasts relegated to the basement again maybe they went into all that in the book i'm just building this out but they could have easily scripted it they could have given us that in the script it would have been so easy this movie is long boo it's too long okay but let's keep moving olivia comes in and she's like they hung a sign that says back off the bash or else meaning don't play at the holiday bash moe's boyfriend is being totally off put by the fact that she's playing the bad she's like i'll call you later maybe totally giving her the cold shoulder in general it's bad news that they're playing the halloween bash okay thanks so hey you're the lead singer the new band right yeah oh the one that you just built one out for us what if she was like sure old man river this blonde little weasel is getting in a fight with all of them but you know stella's not gonna take no crap from no blonde man make it quick the way that lemonade is staining his shirt is making me question its organic ingredients it does not look appetizing to me that's hepatitis urine and i would know that guy starts telling on the principle lemonade mouth over here spits all over me and that is how we got our band name and it won't ever play into the story that much ever again now all the kids are really getting to know each other as band mates hey what are you doing here stella said i should come by work on some songs with you oh did she also tell you to just show up at my house unannounced whenever you want in order to do it you better get out of my mud room your whole head is a pinata to me that's what i would say don't come to my door without me knowing i've never met one of olivia's friends before graham did not like being told off like that in front of company she said i'm about to go trash your asthma inhaler you taylor swift stand in wow that is an old cat yeah and nancy was my mom's and so she's just kind of like the last real thing i have left first i want to ask this nicely but was your dead mom the last one to brush that cat's fur because she's looking a little matted they wanted the cat to look old so they said let's rub it in dirt you guys this is where we get a midpoint conflict that i don't know i don't know what it's supposed it's like some sort of inciting incident but it comes really late like halfway through the movie and it doesn't incite that much i think i know just the thing to make us feel better blast donated the gym and the scoreboard and we have to get rid of any competing rig machines what that's the stupidest thing i've ever heard oh so you can't hear that feather that's been hanging from your ear this whole time stella get it all upset that they're taking out this drink machine as though it's like the most bizarre thing ever girl your school is sponsored by pepsi you're not gonna have a coke machine in the basement it's just the way it is most people just bring their favorite drinks from home to this place they're like you're making a big deal meanwhile back at wendell's house what's all this sydney stuff whatever issues you're having with sydney we have to figure them out because she makes me happy when and i've asked her to marry me which is why she'll be moving in to this giant denim shirt that i'm wearing she's already got a u-haul in there unloading meanwhile the rude what's-his-name guy the blonde guy tricks moe into seeing that there is some other blonde girl talking to her boyfriend in the weight room so they're setting up all sorts of conflict here oh it's exhausting like i don't know what's going on anymore i've seen this movie three times in this last week and i'm like what i forgot about that too much happening now we go to the halloween bash we're gonna get a musical performance coming up it's about time right there's seriously only like two songs in this movie um why is there a full-grown skate park manager at my child's halloween party of course olivia is too nervous to perform because why wouldn't it be all about her right before we go on stage like we've rehearsed this a lot it's like six minutes stella i don't know why you thought you would need cans of lemonade on your belt for this but the way those must be pulling down your pants is not something any teenager would put up with in high school you look stupid no no you deserve no friends i've just decided but they get her the lemonade she needs this is somehow you know they didn't build in the inspiration behind this lemonade wouldn't this make more sense with what i suggested whispering doesn't make what you're doing seem less stupid if they had always been using their like signature toast at the beginning to like steal their nerves then they could have used this opportunity to be like hey take this lemonade and remember no matter what happens out there tonight we're still gonna be the losers of the school so there's nothing to lose tell the subterranean losers like then it would make sense i wouldn't just be like oh she really needed that lemonade to inspire her like the drink itself is not what's doing anything here oh really you have enough electrolytes now for your stupid basic voice to function oh great olivia's ready everybody we can all move on with our lives now good news the shy singer being thrust into the spotlight storyline is so played out and it was in 2011 as well find someone who actually wants to sing mo can sing great you never let her sing great stage presents liv the lights come on and she acts like she just saw the babadook that's a spotlight you knew that was gonna happen but they get their nerves together and they start singing a song and you're gonna love it [Music] i'm sorry i know i'm picking on olivia right now but that front man needs to play out to the audience more don't just flail those limbs at your bandmates like a hand puppet determinate singing i'll learn until we dance more they also have this little dance step that they do they're like jump jump jump jump determinate determinate me showing you that dance was my downstairs neighbor's cue to wake up determinate is the name of that song it's one of the only ones worth listening to oh until wendell comes in with his fast talking oh it makes me cringe your white ass rapping is too fast to even understand and therefore it's pointless i bet you if you slowed that down to half speed he would be like and then mix one half cup of mayonnaise with two cups of peeking cubes stella takes the little interlude in this song to tell the whole school what's up you know she's got a lot on her mind everybody we want you to pass this back so hurry up we'd like to shine a light on a recent change that affects us all now the mouse lemonade machine in the basement is scheduled for removal to help pay for this gymnasium when you say it on stage in front of a crowd like that i hope it really starts to sink in that this lemonade machine is a pretty small banner to stand behind also i think it's a little misleading to say they're removing that machine to pay for the gymnasium like no the gymnasium was already paid for that machine was left there by mistake what is the deal like it's not taking anything away from the art downstairs but she's trying to conflate it to being like it's about people in this school being treated differently if they're not into sports i mean you can make it about that but it's a sort of to make the lemonade thing even part of the issue is confusing just focus on getting money for your club right that's where it would be great if rising star was actually meant to give students money so that they could be like we're gonna go to rising star and we're gonna win that money for the school where the other band was like we're gonna win that money for the sports team where we already have enough you know something like that [Applause] [Music] there is nothing excusable about any of the arm movements they do they're like stand up be tall be proud we're gonna make some noise everyone sings out loud and now we're dancing boys [Music] not the invisible lemonade cans you kids need to start carrying around refillable water bottles this is too much sugar because this song kind of sparks a little bit of a revolution all the kids are like yeah we should be not playing sports the principal is mad and he decides to make it uh known lemonade mouth is finished you will not use the music room you will not use the instruments if i hear so much as a hum coming from the locker room showers i will suspend you what was that about you listening outside the locker room while we shower not sure i'm on board for that part i think it would be funnier if they were like from now on lemonade mouth is only playing sports blaster approved songs so then they have to wear like all of those extreme sports company shirts and they're like repping the sports drink even though they don't like it and they have to play at the pep rally's lame songs then it would be like ah they're being forced into this box that's not them and it's all because of this sports company instead he's just like lemonade mouth is finished you're not playing ever again it's like you can't really control what they do outside of school meanwhile that one performance has got the school ready to hear more from lemonade now [Applause] yeah i don't think these arm movements are as memorable or distinctive as people thought they were going to be i think they wanted like an all in this together type of thing from high school musical but all of those featured extras look embarrassed to be doing this whoo making noise clicking streaking like okay because they can't play at the school anymore stella has the idea to ask dante if they can play at the pizza place so they have a recurring gig at the pizza place that way they can still get the practice they need for the rising star competition oh it's beautiful look at us up there maybe we do matter i'm not saying you guys don't matter but i'm just saying they could have grabbed a frame where all of your mouths weren't open to make into this poster the first time we hear mo sing i'm like okay get out of here bridget we got a lead singer in mo why is she playing bass when she's this kind of singer this is her breakup song because she leaves that guy who wanted to take his band over hers in the past [Music] you know some of the customers in this pizza place are like um the newspaper ad said authentic italian atmosphere like my heart goes out to the season one cast of glee over here but it's really noisy in here and my crust is [ __ ] burnt listen to these vocals i'm obsessed true star of the movie kelly clarkson just made a voodoo doll of you i'm the guy with the tornado arms going this is my favorite pizza place by this point they're legit local celebrities why did the whole school watch them descend the staircase like the dead passengers at the end of titanic finally we get some bonding moments between all the kids and we find out what their deals are as though we didn't have that yet sometimes i like to look up and see what shapes i can find you know in the clouds giant old lady with a skirt and an umbrella i see a hand that's an alien pushing a baby carry i'm gonna go out on a limb and assume that the novel this movie is based off of sucks sometimes i think i'm too stupid to be in my family no wonder my mom ignores me i wish my dad would ignore me try living up to a perfect brother i take perfect brother any day over my dad's ridiculous girlfriend my dad's in prison [Music] um ciao anyway so moe was like um i think we're still just the kind of looking at clouds type of friend group again as they all talk about what their problems are with their family it just feels way too neat and not like i've seen enough of it like it feels like they're just talking about these problems and i haven't seen enough evidence of them and i don't think that it needs to be that way there's enough time to play with in this movie he writes but i don't write back i don't know what to say he's made some really bad decisions since my mom died for example it was super uncool of him to try to hand jive with her corpse at the funeral but he's still my dad you guys something big happens for lemonade mel it's you playing our song on the radio okay but you better not be giving your grandmother a heart attack over some am college radio station okay if this is pay for play then you need to let her relax a little bit now that they're somewhat celebrities they've got standing room only at dante's pizza but that little weasel with the blonde hair from the rival band decides to heckle them one night and causes this big commotion i hate to point fingers but somebody at this restaurant over ordered on the red solo cups you know what i hate um a lazy food fight this is a lazy food fight we had a less lazy food fight in camp rock when they threw some dry spaghetti at each other like no sauce noodles here they're just throwing empty cups just hearing empty cups bang around like it's a frat party like that's that's a really easy reset guys we couldn't have gotten some pizza pie being thrown like you're at a pizza place get some sauce on those boobs talking about my boobs sauce them up baby put them on the grill pink friday pink friday to milly super bass triple plaque free is such a jerk kante's not going to let us play there anymore that's for sure which is presented like it's a conflict but your whole purpose was just getting practice for the rising star competition which you've had for weeks now the whole town loves you i think that it doesn't matter anymore do you guys even remember your own motivations like nobody read this script through and thought like oh we should we should make this make more sense this movie only holds up if i don't look back at the last scene every time i open my eyes anyway what's his name charlie confesses his feelings for mo and she's like i just see you as a friend so he runs off meanwhile when she gets inside she's starting to cough so she's getting sick and her mom sends her to bed we get five scenes here where each of these kids has something go wrong for them so i'm just gonna breeze through it charlie is playing drums angrily and he slams his finger in the drawer wendell's dad asks him to be the best man at his wedding and he hits his eye with a picture so he has a black eye they're trying to play it like this is the band's low point where everyone is like not right in a bad place and not able to play wait where are you going what's to talk about okay we can't play so we're out maybe this is a sign maybe it's time to call it quits i would have hoped so at the 80-minute mark but nope there's still a lot more movie left here i don't even remember my mom i haven't talked to my dad in years and you have the nerve to feel sorry for yourself give up see if i care i didn't even want to be in this band in the first place then why did you do it for you you jerk this part of the story is so messy it's like the very next scene the whole group acting like they didn't just all fight shows up to stella who's like trying to protest the removal of the lemonade stand what happened what's going on stella i am protesting the removal of our mel's lemonade machine you're kidding me right in this weather it's gonna rain let's get out of here i love how it's going to rain but everyone's squinting in the bright sun and they just turned it blue somehow they got into a kerfuffle with those delivery men who were trying to remove the machine like they could have made this whole plot point make a lot more sense it would have been better if all of the kids were in fighting at the time when it's like well i would love to help you but olivia over here is a quitter i'm not a quitter you're the one who thinks that we shouldn't do this thing and then they all start fighting and then like now they're getting arrested the story is so convoluted i hate it i used to like this movie until i had to sit and look at it scene by scene and i'm like where is the sense what's not clicking what's not clicking so now they're at their lowest point they're all in a holding cell waiting for their parents to pick them up which i think would have been a really great point for olivia to be like great now i've ended up in jail just like my dad and like have an emotional feeling around that but they don't even mention it seems like it would have been cool dot to connect but what do i know i'm just a viewer television viewer but instead they just start doing their tippity-tap music stomp stomp session the murderer in the next cell is like cute song hey where do you kids all sleep at night sydney the younger girlfriend is who picks up wendell your dad he's stuck in town at work he's on his way you just thought i'd come in [Music] thanks for coming you're welcome sweetie just always hug me with your pelvis arched really far away from me pretty much every kid gets a little bit of resolution with their parents here mo tells her dad that she's not gonna be able to live up to being a perfect daughter all the time and he is just like okay i guess i'll kill you then and then um charlie meets with his older brother that he's always trying to live up to and even his brother is like i'm not so perfect either i got bad grades this semester so that resolves that and then stella talks to her mom and she's like you're the most beautiful determined woman in the whole world i mean like this is what happens when you dole out a little problem to every character then it starts to feel like a checklist where it's like okay we set up the family problem and then the family problem self-resolved because they went to jail it would have been great for all this emotional stuff to come through in some sort of musical performance but i mean at this point it's just like we're in the home stretch final 20 minutes gang and it's the night of the big show we've got our rival brand showing up and they're singing their final song i'm so sick of these white devils don't you wish you were us don't you wish no i don't wish i were you what are you bringing to the table black denim and hair pomade don't act like one direction didn't do it better with the crush her hand just turns to stone once that song is up it's time for lemonade mouth to go on stage here goes them singing [Music] [Applause] oh no we forgot to give olivia 20 minutes of attention before this performance now how will we get her to do that thing that she's so good at and claims to be passionate about the band is just about to give up because they can't bring themselves to sing trying hard to fight these tears crazy worried messing with my head this fear you know you gotta get it out the audience is like see your job is actually not that hard and then the whole audience starts standing up and then the band comes back on stage and they're shocked with how much involvement the audience has oh i thought the band was going to jump in there and finish the song at some point but yeah maybe it's better if we all just go home and scoop out our eardrums with melon ballers this was so anticlimactic they're just watching the audience sing like teary-eyed like ding we didn't win rising star probably because you didn't perform you dumb kids what are they gonna do give a record deal to non-union susie in the audience no wonder you didn't when you literally practiced for weeks and you couldn't even perform when push came to shove like this is where i was just like off the train like you kids claim to be so in love with music but the the love of the music is is placed on a back burner to this interpersonal drama like every time you're telling me a story where music helped unify them and get them through these hard times then we'd be cruising but it's basically like no the lemonade is what did it they didn't even perform at their final number but anyway we finished two scenes later than we should starting with this wedding scene for wendell's dad that's my bandmate up there and that's my old college buddy see you and me were like practically best friends already stella you need to run that's sideshow bob that's a child and that's a grown man being like we're practically best friends already like you need to not talk to her that close she's like well what do you do i own an organic lemonade company thing is going gangbusters it's crazy people just can't get enough of this stuff mel yeah let me ask you something though are you willing to [ __ ] my mom she wants that lemonade fortune no instead she's so excited that she met mel of mel's lemonade that she talks him into giving them a scholarship and he has the whole music auditorium wing of the school built it seems a little hard to believe but hey that's how everybody gets what they want in the world of lemonade mouth that way you'll conveniently notice there doesn't have to be a resolution where the principal gets what's his or learns that there's value in art outside of sports you know we just get to circumvent all of that storyline cheers cheers to you greedy ass principal who only cares about money may hypertension take your life and then we find out what the whole framing device for this story has actually been i really miss you dad love olivia p.s i've also included that nail file you wanted and some strands of hair like your cellmate asked for oh man this movie just really felt like a poorly written novel translated to screen it was not really like a strong three-act structure here it kind of felt like there were too many conflicts too many different events and inciting incidents i needed the story to be a lot more clear what do you guys think though did you like these songs like they're just not that memorable to me not as much as i thought they were when i watched it back in 2011. let me know your thoughts in the comments below also give this video a big thumbs up if you want to see even more dcom clip breakdowns just like this but most importantly if you're new to my channel i would love to have you click that subscribe button right down here that way you never miss new videos from me i upload two new ones every week so turn on notifications and you'll always be the first to know when it's time to determinate determinate also i've got merch available in the links below and my patreon where you can access exclusive content and bonuses every month bonuses like being able to name one of my plants on set that's a perk you get if you're one of my screen star patrons just like keelan who just joined she's naming this plant sarah farah we're so excited to finally name you now you've got a name and we love the way you smell you guys are all the 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Length: 47min 21sec (2841 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 15 2021