Lemonade Mouth is a 2011 American teen musical comedy-drama television film, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Mark Peter Hughes.

The film was directed by Patricia Riggen and written by April Blair, and stars Bridgit Mendler, Adam Hicks, Naomi Scott, Hayley Kiyoko and Blake Michael.

The film 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.

High school freshmen Olivia White, Mohini "Mo" Banjaree, Charles "Charlie" Delgado, Stella Yamada, and Wendell "Wen" Gifford meet while in detention.

When Miss Reznick, the music teacher supervising detention, leaves briefly, they tap out a beat and play instruments, with Olivia singing along.

Miss Reznick returns and encourages them to enter the upcoming Rising Star music competition, which popular band Mudslide Crush is also slated to perform in.

At school, Stella spits lemonade on Ray Beech, lead singer of Mudslide Crush, when he ridicules Olivia for her stage fright.

As each of their parents and guardians come to retrieve them from the police station, they reconcile their individual problems at home; Wen finally accepts his dad's girlfriend, Olivia gains the courage to send a letter to her incarcerated father, Mo gets her dad to accept her for who she is, Charlie realizes he doesn't have to live up to his older brother's prowess, and Stella realizes she doesn't have to be a genius to fit in with her family.

Later, Olivia mails the entire story of the band's genesis to her father, wrapping up with news of Lemonade Mouth performing at Madison Square Garden, with Scott as their new rhythm guitarist.

[2][4] Bridgit Mendler, Adam Hicks, Naomi Scott, Hayley Kiyoko, Blake Michael, Nick Roux, Chris Brochu, Tisha Campbell-Martin and Christopher McDonald were announced as the principal cast of the film.

[6][7] The film was Scott's first American production, who in an episode of Collider's Ladies Night podcast said that "I [also] remember being introduced to craft services for the first time.

[5] Lemonade Mouth features ten original songs, and was released by Walt Disney Records as a soundtrack album on April 12, 2011.

[19] Family-oriented reviewers at Common Sense Media praised the film for its themes of honesty, empowerment, overcoming adversity, self-expression, standing up for what one believes in, and for its emphasis on the importance of the arts and of friendship and family.

"[21] He praised the "Superb music, talented cast, good script, a well used production design budget — this one hit the nail on the head.

"[22] H.F. Chacon Jr. of The Tartan gave the film seven out of ten stars, writing that "the plot is not as sappy and childish as DCOMs are often thought to be, and can be respected for attempting to speak on the topics that children maturing into young adults have to deal with.

These five leads are expertly cast and do a phenomenal job taking their characters from a group of misfits and loners to a Madison Square Garden-booking band.

[25][26][27] Christopher Monger of AllMusic praised the film for tackling "the usual teen subjects" through its music and called it a blend of "the dewy-eyed romanticism of the Jonas Brothers and the quasi-rebellious angst of early Avril Lavigne, resulting in a winning, if not entirely original, collection of new High School Musical-inspired homeroom anthems.

[28][29] Lemonade Mouth has often been considered one of the best Disney Channel original films, appearing high on several media lists ranking DCOMs.