No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School
Directed byDave Moody
Written byJosh Moody
Produced byDave Moody
StarringBill Cobbs
Lee Meriwether
Blake Michael
Celeste Kellogg
Ashton Harrell
CinematographyDamon Woods
Edited byJosh Moody
Music byDave Moody
Production
company
Elevating Entertainment Motion Pictures
Distributed byBMG
Phase 4
Release date
  • May 16, 2010 (2010-05-16)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School is a 2010 direct-to-video family comedy film. It starred Bill Cobbs, Lee Meriwether, Blake Michael, Celeste Kellogg and Ashton Harrell. The screenplay was written by Joshua Moody and the film was directed by Dave Moody for Elevating Entertainment Motion Pictures, who also provided the musical score for the film.

Plot

A group of young adolescents: Celeste (Celeste Kellogg), Zach (Blake Michael), Ashton (Ashton Harrell) and Becca (Amanda Waters) that are entering middle school full of questions, doubts and fears, come together to form a club in an abandoned theater on Main Street. Inside the theater, they discover an interesting piece of their history, but also a seemingly homeless man named Charlie (Bill Cobbs), who connects with the kids through their mutual passion for musical theater.

When the teens learn the theater is scheduled for demolition, they embark on a mission to save the town's landmark and to keep Charlie safe. They decide to mount a modern-day version of a Shakespeare play called Much Ado About Middle School based on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Through the play's mistaken identities and false assumptions, the teens and others learn that you can not always judge a book by its cover.

Cast

Reception

No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School was praised by family-oriented critics and film festivals for its positive message to youth. Ted Baehr, writing on his Movieguide site, writes:

No Limit Kids is an entertaining movie about middle school kids who like to sing trying to raise money to save a rundown theater from being torn down. [It] is well worth watching. Bad behavior is rebuked, good behavior is commended, and there's a good story arc where good triumphs over evil.[1]

Baehr praised the singing as "wonderful," but did go on to note the films often "flat dialogue" and "silly scenes", commenting particularly on the mixed success of the film's technique of having its characters talk directly to the camera.[1]

Awards and Festivals

No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School was recognized at several youth and family-oriented film festivals:

Winner
Nominations/Official Selections

References

  1. ^ a b Baehr, Ted (6 August 2012). "Movie Review: No Limit Kids ..." Movieguide. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  2. ^ "Withoutabox".
  3. ^ "The 37th Annual TELLY Awards - Winners".
  4. ^ "Gideon Arts Media Film Festival" (PDF).
  5. ^ a b "Kids First! Film Festival Best 2009 Nominees".
  6. ^ "It'll take more than a little flood water to dampen Nashville's International Black Film Festival". Nashville Scene.

External links

William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
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