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Summary: This movie was great!
Review: I am really glad that Jack Black made this movie because it was great and he was great in it. I love Jack and all his movies and obviously this movie was no exception. However, I think the most amazing thing about this movie were the kids in it because they were awesome! If anyone is reading this right now wondering about the greatness of this movie...wonder no more....go out and buy it (or just order it since you're here anyway) and enjoy!
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Summary: kinda funny
Review: It has some funny moments, but it just isn't all that great. It got to the point where I didn't care how it ended, but that is all you can expect from Jack Black. One of his better films though. The plot was really dumb. It tried to seem as jack black bringing back rock and roll and things like that aren't heart tuching anymore. The kids we pretty good actors, but the songs they song weren't all that entertaining. A bunch of kids pretending to play instruments that they learned( in the movie) in a short period of time. Very cheesy and simple
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Summary: School of Rock
Review: This movie was awesome. Hopefully theyll put a lot of cool stuff on this DVD. Hopefully the music video. I am really looking forward to this DVD! This is a very funny movie.
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Summary: School of Rock Rocks !
Review: A "feel good movie"? You bet your bippie. Funny as all heck? Yup ! Can Jack Black make adults and kids laugh without crossing any taboo lines? Absolutely. Black this time refrains from any real lewd crude humor due to the fact this is a PG-13/Disney production. However, those of us that know his humor as adults can see at times where the "dark side" wants to come out. It is his high doses of sarcastic and comedic comebacks and supercharged physical antics that keeps the energy level of this movie on high so the audience doesn't fall asleep. He is a true entertainer. At times, with his physical machinations, almost channels in the spirit of the late Chris Farley...All this said, the plot or storyline is simple...Black plays a down and out founder of a rock band whose remaining members have given him the boot due to "artistic differences". Soon, he assumes the identity of his roommate who is a substitute teacher. He does it for the love of teaching? To better educate today's youths? Not. He does it for the money to avoid being evicted by his roommate for not paying rent on time. In the process, he must scam and convince the principal played by Joan Cusack that he is the real thing. He realizes that his students are prodigal musicians. A band is born and you must see the rest of the movie. Many will say that Black's character is exploiting the gifted younglings and living vicariously through them for what he could not accomplish with his real band. In a way, yeah, he is. But you decide...
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Summary: Brian Falduto, this one's for YOU!!!
Review: Apparently, I know one of the child actors in School of Rock. We are HUGE rivals, but, that's another story. Anyway,,, he plays Billy, the fasion designer. I'll tell you now, he was so-so. For those of you who haven't seen the film yet, GO SEE IT!!! It is SOOO good.
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Summary: School of Rock
Review: Upon hearing that Jack Black is going to be your new teacher, one reaction might be to run for the hills. A second, more reasonable reaction (given Mr. Black's recent catapult to fame and "hipster status") would be: "This ought to be _____ (interesting, cool, fun, spunky, wild...choose an adjective.)" All of those descriptions work to explain Jack Black's teaching style in the aptly titled School of Rock, in which Black turns a class of bewildered seventh graders into a full-fledged rock 'n roll band.
Jack Black plays Dewey Finn, an unemployed guitarist in a rock band going nowhere. He lives in a rented room with henpecked substitute teacher Ned Shneebly and Ned's domineering girlfriend who is as welcoming of Dewey as Norman Bates is of passing travelers. This is because Dewey hasn't paid his rent in ages, and he needs to come up with a heap of cash or he'll get the boot from the apartment. It doesn't help that he's just been voted out of his band because they've decided he "sucks too much" to play with them at the upcoming Battle of the Bands. But when Dewey picks up a phone call from Horace Green Prep School asking if Ned is available to substitute teach for a few weeks, Dewey senses his chance to make some quick money. He pretends he's Ned and agrees to teach the class, despite his obvious lack of know-how. As expected, he's a complete failure as a teacher, but he gets an idea when he witnesses their talents in music class. Dewey plans to turn the group of youngsters into a rock band and take them to play at the Battle of the Bands in order to win prize money, all while avoiding the comically stringent school principal who is completely oblivious to his "project."
If nothing else, it's a great idea. Sure, we've seen the general framework before ("Hard-core dude meets his biggest challenge: children!") in movies like Kindergarten Cop and Daddy Day Care, but School of Rock is one of the better movies of this fray. Why? Because out of this formula stems a concept that is original and worthwhile. It's also one to which many of us can relate-we've all had teachers we thought were boring, and perhaps we wished someone like Jack Black would step in and teach us instead. That's really what makes the kids' transformations so fun to watch: Dewey loosens them up and actually gets them to realize the range of their musical abilities (there is a constructive element to Dewey's teaching after all.)
Nobody could have played Dewey as effectively as Jack Black. Nobody. Dewey has his head in the clouds (he thinks he's a better guitarist than he actually is,) his legs on the ground (he's as cool as your uncle,) one foot firmly planted in the '70s rock 'n roll era and the other foot in a beer can. He's a classics-loving party animal with big dreams, and it's the perfect vehicle for Jack Black to bring his delightfully hammy Tenacious-D antics to the big screen. Unbelievably, though, Jack Black doesn't entirely steal the show, which is a feat considering he's the only headliner (pun intended) in the movie. The schoolchildren play their parts with similar zeal. They may be caricatures, but that doesn't mean they aren't worthy characters-in fact, the more one-dimensional schoolchildren are in films, the more lovable they are. This is because a class of children is really a collective, so their outstanding traits combine to make a multi-dimensional group. In School of Rock, they're all here: the unhip nerd, the aloof valedictorian, the rebellious troublemaker, the cool guitarist stifled by his parents, and so on. They're predictable, but that works to their advantage-they become "tools" for Dewey to work his magic.
Unfortunately, the film still has some flaws. Last I checked, School of Rock is a comedy, but the writers apparently forgot to include a crucial comedic element: jokes. There are few sprinkled in there (and quite funny, too,) but when I got right down to it, I was forced to realize that the humor survived off of Jack Black's charismatic line delivery alone. I mentioned earlier that School of Rock sports a great idea, but having said that, the film is a bit better in theory than it is in practice: it's really a one-trick pony from start to finish. Add to that a two-hour running time (on the lengthy side for a comedy,) and the film begins to lose steam as it approaches the end. Finally, for all of Jack Black's comic greatness, the writers don't give him a whole lot to work with. Far too many times does he divulge his almost fanatical devotion to rock 'n roll, and while that may play well on a 40-minute Tenacious-D CD, this kind of unvaried writing tends to become grating in a two-hour feature film. He's even forced to repeat a line of dialogue ("But that's a very important job!")-a telltale sign of screenwriters asleep at the wheel.
Even still, all the ranting and raving in the world can't disprove that School of Rock is an enjoyable movie purely on the surface-that is to say, picking it apart is more fruitless than just sitting back with popcorn and soaking it in. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a more original comedy this year (especially considering the recent wasteland of sophomoric gross-out comedies hitting our theaters like spitballs,) and by virtue of that alone, it shouldn't be overlooked.
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Summary: Rocks
Review: School of Rock basically says it for it's self, it ROCKS! I love this movie! If your thinking about seeing it and you think "I don't know mabey there's another movie," my advice is to forget about that other movie and go to see Scool of Rock. It's funny and the actors and actresses are the best people to play in the movie. Its about a man who gets kicked out of a band and becomes a "subtitude teacher" to a 5th grade class. They start a band and call it The School of Rock. Each of the children are good at something different so they have a whole staff for the band. Then they get involved with battle of the bands. The best part is after this and if you want to find out what happens you should go and see the movie.
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Summary: showcase for Jack Black
Review: A failed rock guitarist fakes his way into a substitute teaching job, uses the kids to form a band, and teaches them a valuable lesson about self-esteem on the way. Sounds like typical Hollywood nonsense? Well, thanks to the anarchic comic presence of Jack Black, all sentiment is defeated and SCHOOL OF ROCK is a very fine light comedy. Black is playing essentially the same character he did in HIGH FIDELITY, which is good, since he does it well. His ingenuousness as a performer and surprising physical comedy abilities really overwhelm the thin premise and keep the laughs coming. Joan Cusack-not given nearly enough to do-is very funny as the school principal.
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Summary: ROCKIN' movie!
Review: Rockin' at its maximum BABY! This is an awesome movie; it is funny, inspiring, and just warm-hearted. When you get out of the movie it makes you want to play air guitar and say, "YEAH, ROCK ON!!!" and sing one of the great tunes from this super-duper flick. I highly reccomend it for ages 8+.
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Summary: BEST
Review: School Of Rock is the best movie I have seen yet! It had amazing talent especially in the kids! One that really stood out to me was the drummer Freddy Jones played by Kevin Clark, he was really good and I bet there was no problem picking someone for that part. Jack Black is hilarious and the funniest guy I've seen in the movies all this year and I mean it, really! Well thats why I gave it 5 stars and I suggest they make a second to show what happens in the future for School Of Rock for those kids! BYE-Erika
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