No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School | |
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Directed by | Dave Moody |
Written by | Josh Moody |
Produced by | Dave Moody |
Starring | Bill Cobbs Lee Meriwether Blake Michael Celeste Kellogg Ashton Harrell |
Cinematography | Damon Woods |
Edited by | Josh Moody |
Music by | Dave Moody |
Production company | Elevating Entertainment Motion Pictures |
Distributed by | BMG Phase 4 |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.
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.
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]
No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School was recognized at several youth and family-oriented film festivals:
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