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Summary: I want this DVD for my collection.
Review: A delightfully entertaining movie of two cultures and two generations coming together and learning about life from each other. Previously catching only bits and pieces of this movie until I overheard the music, now I have watched it in full four times, and have not grown tired of it yet. I love watching the band members' mischievious antics, and Peter O'Toole and Joan Plowright play the perfect aristocratic couple, but it is the music that makes it complete. If there is ever a CD made, I want it!
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Summary: Wicked Movie...
Review: Alicia Sliverstone rocks in this movie...i came across this movie one night thought it would be silly..but i actually enjoyed the movie..the cast is perfectly cast. and it is a movie that rocks...a must hav ein any dvd collection.
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Summary: 4 out of 5
Review: Great movie with lots of laughs and some great music!
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Summary: Great music-pretty good movie
Review: I absolutely LOVED the music in this movie! Most of it was from a Texas based band known as CASINO...but you can't really find much of their music...Anyways--It was a pretty good movie(one of my faves) but the cover is completely misleading...Alicia Silverstone is not that big of a character in this movie. Basically, its a Lord and Lady who are in debt, so they rent their home out to some American musicians...Its really about the Lord and Lady Foxley's way of opening up and embracing the current generation. Cute subplots and such...but I really watch it for the music.
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Summary: Entertaining and a Lot of Fun.
Review: I came across this movie in a video store a few days ago and bought it used because, though I'd never heard of it before, it sounded good to me. True, I'm not big on Alicia Silverstone movies, but Peter O'Toole, Joan Plowright, and the discription on the box had my attention.
The Foxleys (O'Toole and Plowright) have to masquerade themselves as the butler and maid in their own home when the help they hired fails to show up. They have no choice as they're losing the fortune that's been in their family for so many years. They need money so badly that they have to rent the house out for a week to an upcoming young American band called Global Heresy to try and save their beautiful English manor.
Global Heresy is quite a band. I didn't like the guys much at first and expected them to destroy that gorgeous house, but it didn't happen. They have a female bassist, Nat Bevin (Silverstone), taking the place of the one who formed the band, and she proves to be more talented and likeable than her predecessor. Bridges are gapped between two different generations after a rocky start, and I grew to like all the characters, particularly their pothead drummer Dave, who is both funny and sweet. Everybody is getting along so well, and then their long lost bass player shows up, proving to be a real creep, who confesses his disappearance was a publicity stunt. The rest you'll have to find out by yourself.
Sure the plot's a little hokey, but there are a lot of things going on in the subplots that keep you entertained, and this movie isn't meant to shake the world. I look at it this way: if the characters move you, and you're into the storyline, the film, crew, and cast have done their job. Rock My World isn't just a story about bridging generation gaps or the value of friendship and loyalty. It's also a positive story about how bending to change can be a very good thing--although it's not always believable. Peter O'Toole and Joan Plowright did a fantastic job as the Foxleys; she was a good mellowing factor to her husband's uptight snobbery, and they really clicked as a believable couple. They were also a sophisticated edge to some often raunchy but very effective comedy. I laughed out loud at least a dozen times. There's also some really good music in this movie(thanks to a band called Casino), and I wish they'd release a soundtrack. I enjoyed this one a lot and hope you do too!
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Summary: Ouch
Review: I gave this movie 2 stars only because Joan Plowright ("Enchanted April", "I Love You to Death") and Martin Clunes ("Shakespeare in Love", "Saving Grace" and the voice of Kipper) are in it. Otherwise, this script bit, plain and simple. In "Rock My World" (orginally titled "Global Heresy")Plowright and Peter O'Toole play Lord and Lady Foxley, who have run short of dosh and need to pump some fundage into their mansion. They decide to rent out the mansion to an American rock band that wants some seclusion to work on their next album. Seems their bass player disappeared on the edge of a waterfront, his ragged clothes strewn about, and no one knows where he is. So they hire a new bass player (Silverstone) who infuses the band with different tones and ideas. Since the Foxley's cook and butler have failed to show, they assume the postions in the form of "Margaret" and "Benson", waiting on the kids hand and foot. Cultures and generations collide at first, but both learn to appreciate and respect the other (awww!). Everything is going smoothly, until the formerly "lost" bass player surfaces, admitting that his "disapperance" was all a publicity stunt.This movie could have been okay (obvious plot aside) were it not for the horrible script and the high school-like performance of it's actors. Lochlyn Munro, who has done pretty well in such flicks as "Unforgiven" and "The Keeper" delivers his lines in such an inexperienced manner, one would think this was his debut movie. As for Silverstone, she just can't seem to catch a break. It seems her ultimate character was Cher in "Clueless", because every movie I've seen her in since convinces me that she's just not a very good actress. I also have a problem watching these youngsters encourage the older folks to pop a little white "Vitamin E" tab, their hip, funky slang for Ecstasy. Teenagers who down E for the first time can die from the stuff, and most people in their 70's suffer from high blood pressure, heart problems, and other stroke-inducing maladies. Yet, the Foxley's can pop some E tabs and only come out the other end with a night of hot sex? Lord Foxley asks the departing band at the end, "Where might one buy some of those vitamin E pills?". Nice. Sir Peter O'Toole is advocating drug use on film. So much for all those public service announcements. But I digress...drug scenes aside, this movie is not worth your money. If you happen to catch it on cable, so be it. Don't say I didn't warn you.
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Summary: VERY DIFFERENT REVIEW
Review: I had an entirely different experience than all the other reviewers did for this movie. I thought it was possibly one of the worst movies I ever sat through...and I absolutely loved it. For some reason I think it very funny to see actors scraping around for cash doing terrible movies. The music WILL make you tap your toe...for some god-awful reason, and you will become interested in the charachters, but only because you'd like to see them fail. I love movies like this. Another fine example of this type of movie is Whacked with Carmen Electra and Judge Reinhold.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I love this movie. It is not often that I find a movie that I can watch a million times and still love. But I have found just that in ROCK MY WORLD. It is the perfect mixture of music and cinema. The comedy can't be beat. Absolutly loved it.
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Summary: An unexpected treasure!
Review: I saw Peter O'Toole's name on the marquee and that was enough for me to give this unheralded film a watch. How lucky I am that I did! First, igrnore the DVD cover. God only knows what was in the marketing people's head when they created that monstrous art. This movie is not about "old folks" completing with "the greatest rock band" on earth. What it is some of the most compelling acting from two of movie and theatre's greatest stars, O'Toole and Plowright, who just tear up the screen giving acting lessons to any young actor and maybe lessons for some of the more established people who think they are actors. The young "musicians" in the film hold their own against these two established stars and provide a very nice if not quite co-equal counterpoint. The plot may be a little predictable but it's sweet and fulfilling all the way. And there are some running gags that are genuine originals. There's some four-letter words from the youngsters and a few sexual innuendos (but nothing depicted). But why, oh why, did they put this awful cover on the DVD?
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Summary: Great music, decent movie
Review: I saw this on Starz a couple weeks ago and ever since i have wanted to get the movie just for the music. I was really disappointed to find they didn't have a soundtrack to it. The movie itself isn't that bad. A little predictable (but that is typical Disney there) but good. Does casino have any cds out?
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