Akeelah and the bee

Hey everyone! I hope you all are doing well, and having a wonderful week! I have decided to write about Akeelah and the bee today.

It stars Keke Palmer Laurence fishbone  Angela Bassett and  a whole cast of amazing Actors and Actresses, It is also a wonderful Story, light-hearted relatable and a fun movie to watch with family or friends. 

The story starts out with Akeelah who is elven years old she is a spelling enthusiast attends Crenshaw Middle School, a predominately black school in south Los Angeles. 

She lives with her widowed mother who is named Tanya and her three older siblings Kiana, Devon and Terrance and her baby niece Makayla. 

One day her principal Mr. Welch suggests that she signs up for the Crenshaw School Wide spelling bee she initially says no, she is then threatened with detention if she doesn't go for the remainder of the semester because she has skipped school numerous times.  

She enters the spelling bee and wins. Dr.Joshua Larabee who is visiting and is an English professor watched the Crenshaw School Wide Spelling bee gave Akeelah challenging words after she just won the bee he decides she is good enough to enter the Scripps National Spelling Bee. 

Akeelah is looking for a coach he says no and declines her because he was rude to her when she came to his house and asked him to be her spelling coach, because of that Akeelah studies on her own to prepare for the district spelling bee during the bee she misspelled a word during the last round of the bee.

Thankfully she gets another to qualify for the regional bee after her sister Kiana catches one of the other finalists cheating,Akeelah meets and befriends another contestant who is in the bee his name is Javier Mendez a twelve year old Mexican-American Boy and fellow speller, he invites her to join the spelling club at his middle school in woodland hills while she is there she meets another contestant his name is Dylan Chui he won second place at the past two national spelling bees and is in his final year of eligibility.

 Akeelah misspells another word Dylan tells her she needs a coach. After the bee Javier invites Akeelah to a party while her mom Tonya is saddened by her brother Terrence's behavior, Akeelah's grades and frequent truancy, her husbands death at the hands of a mugger five years prior. Guess what? Her mom finds out about her spelling she doesn't allow Akeelah to go to the regional bee she makes her attend summer school for the classes she has missed.

 Akeelah does something to prevent this prohibition she forges her father's signature and secretly studies with Dr.Larabee . Akeelah is at another party with Javier and she is playing Scrabble Dylan is at the party too she was playing against him and won the game later during the party she hears Dylan's father berating him and yelling at him because he got beat by a girl.

It is now time for the bee her mom Tonya finds out her being there and interrupts her before she can spell her word. She chastises Akeelah for coming to the bee without her permission she relents after a talk with her spelling coach and her principal.

Javiar Stalls the judges so they can't remove Akeelah from the competition, Dylan, Javiar , Akeelah all advance to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. I don't want to give any spoilers away the rest of the movie is very powerful and uplifting it has a happy ending for everyone in the story. It has a few dramatic scenes and very moving scenes that will touch your heart and spirit the whole cast does an outstanding job in the movie. 

I decided to write about this movie today because it is very inspirational and very encouraging, Keke Palmer does an outstanding job in this movie, you really feel like she is the live character that she is playing in the movie.

Also seeing how she loves to spell and really excels, It makes me think of singing and how much I love to sing Like Akeelah  put her mind and heart into her spelling, I know that I can put my mind and heart into my singing and achieve my dreams like Akeelah achieved her dreams and became an amazing and excellent Speller. She also had a lot of encouraging family and friends in her life and corner and people who believed her and knew that she could excel and could do big and amazing things when she put her mind and her self into it.

My favorite Scene from the movie is where she is spelling a word and she spells some of the word at first and is having a little trouble remembering how to spell the rest she then remembers a technique she uses to help her remember how to spell tough words she jumps rope to get her mind jogging on the word, she lifts up her hands and pretends she has a jump rope and starts moving her hands in a jump position and then starts spelling the word the judges gave her and she gets it correct and everyone cheers for her and is so happy for her.

 I also like the part where her mom tells her she has 50,000 coaches to help her with studying her spelling words on the cards and preparing for the bee, I feel like I have 50,0000 coaches and people in my life too they are also there to help me and encourage me support me, and give me talks whenever I need one because they care about me. 

Keke Palmer is one of my favorite actresses, I love her personality and her singing voice, she is also an amazing actress I enjoy her movies in one of her movies her character is named Emerald that blew my mind I was like WOW! She is so caring and kind  and very sweet and a wonderful mother you can tell how much she loves her son Leo. 

 I really enjoyed her performance of Cinderella in New York City, She was an amazing and Beautiful Cinderella that was my first time seeing her in person and live I enjoyed the play so much! Sherri Shephard also did an amazing job playing the stepmother, she made me laugh a lot when she was acting in the play. The whole cast did an amazing job and gave an excellent performance I loved the finale of the play when everyone came out and Sang the Audience sang along they sang Impossible everyone was clapping along to the song when everyone was taking their bows and Keke was singing and dancing along to the song and waving to everyone that put a smile on my face , that is a night I will always remember!

I like Angela Bassett too, she is also a very strong Actress and portrays every character in the movies she is in with all her heart, you can feel the character come to life like when she played Queen Romanda in the Black Panther she did an outstanding job you really felt like she was the real queen of Wakanda.  She put her heart and soul into it, like she put her heart into the role of Tina Turner you felt all her passion and energy in the role of Tina throughout the whole movie.

She also did an outstanding job of playing Rosa Parks. I also liked her in Jump the Broom, she is in a lot of good and wonderful movies! She did  an amazing job with this role! 

Laurence Fishburne does an excellent job in the movie, he is an excellent coach and teacher you can see how much he cares about Akeelah and how he wants to see her succeed in life and see how strong she is and what an amazing speller she is. He is in a lot of movies too, His character Pops in Blackish makes me laugh a lot. He seemed to enjoy playing that character in the show. The Cast of Black-ish is a really good and strong Cast you can tell they all really care about each other and love each other. 

I recommend this movie to anyone who loves a good family movie!