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Summary: Great Entertainment
Review: My husband and I saw this movie and we loved it. It brought back memories of the rock we used to listen to. Jack Black was awesome (and creepy at the same time!). There were also some lessons learned. This was a great movie to sit back and enjoy. We laughed so hard because we could relate to some of the references. It would be a great family movie for kids 13 and up.
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Summary: MORE THAN 5 Stars! A wonderful movie for all ages!!!!!
Review: As I said above this movie is indeed a movie for all ages. The rock and roll part of the movie will be aimed more toward the older generation or teenagers who like Jack Black and rock music, but this is a very nice movie for the whole family to see. It is rated PG-13 but it's not Austin Powers PG-13 it's kid-friendly PG-13. Jack Black is a great actor and should be recognized more for his work. He was great in the movie Orange County (written by Mike White who co-stars and wrote the script for this movie) and he was good in Shallow Hal. Let's just hope he becomes a bigger star because he is really funny, plus he's got a very funny rocker voice that is just really cool! The kids are really the stars of this movie and they are all really good actors and musicians. Critics love this movie and I think everyone else will enjoy it too. NOTE TO PARENTS: Looking for a good movie for the kids (ages 10 and up) with no sexual content and mild language, The School of Rock is for you! PERFECT MOVIE! MUST OWN WHEN ON DVD!!
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Summary: Best performanc of the year--or so
Review: This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. If you think this is a kid's movie, get with it, I'm 57. Jack should win the Academy Award for this performance. You keep expecting the movie to get dull or drop into another 'fart' sequence, but it never happens. Strong from start to finish. Kids are great- they don't overact-they defer to the master-Jack. Don't miss this one.
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Summary: Not bad, not great.
Review: Not a bad movie, nothing outstanding either except for the concept. I enjoied it enough to keep watching and wondering what would happen next, but I doubt I'd want to see it again.Shallow Hal remains Jack Blacks best work to date. School of Rock would be at a distant second.
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Summary: Ladies and gentlemen, Jack Black!
Review: Ever since "High Fidelity," it was apparent that Jack Black was a superstar in the making. With "School of Rock," his stretch limo has officially pulled up to the Beverly Hills Hotel. Combining John Belushi's squat body and manic energy with Jack Nicholson's hyperkinetic eyebrows and Dennis Quaid's diabolical grin, Black can get more genuine laughs just entering a room than Adam Sandler can with a movie full of toilet jokes. "School of Rock"--directed by Richard Linklater from a script by Black's friend and co-star Mike White--is a star vehicle for Black, and while it's no masterpiece, it does display Black's talents to maximum advantage. Black plays Dewey Finn, a down-and-out rock guitarist who cons his way into a substitute teaching job as a way to earn some badly needed dough. His overachieving young charges--almost all of whom are musically talented--he sees as a way to get himself back into the rock world, and in the process of turning them into a rock band he and they learn some wholesome lessons about teamwork, friendship and the need to keep believing in your dreams. Black's fast-talking, cannonballing charisma underlines the genuine sweetness of the tale while effectively undercutting the potential saccharine content. White--who plays Black's nerdy roommate--contributes a script that expertly combines kid-friendly situations with tart adult wit. There is also excellent support from Joan Cusack, as the school's anal-retentive principal with a secret passion for Stevie Nicks, and from a classroom full of gifted young musicians (especially Maryam Hassan, a pint-sized Aretha Franklin). The audience at the screening I attended--ranging in age from prepubescent to late middle age--roared with laughter. Mr. Black, you have arrived!
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Summary: Enroll in the "School of Rock"
Review: Finally, a movie to get excited about. "School of Rock" may be no incredible aesthetic achievement, but it's a hell of a lot of fun. It makes you smile without realizing, and it'll tickle your funny bone every few minutes. It might be the only movie I've been to where everybody randomly applauded at certain times, simply because you really start to care about the characters and what they're doing. Jack Black might be goofy, but he's a true star; he's got that special something that just endears him to an audience. This is certainly his film, but everybody gets their chance to shine, especially Joan Cusack in a great performance as the principal, Ms. Mullins. Her Stevie Nicks scene is truly funny and touching. This is certainly Hollywood: the good guy wins, the bad guys have a change of heart, everybody's happy in the end, and sometimes that is exactly what you need from a moviegoing experience. A little rock and roll and a lot of heart are all you need to "stick it to the Man!"
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Summary: Schooled by Jack
Review: I thought this was a surprisingly good movie. Jack Black plays his enthusiastic rock and roll self, much better I think than his older attempts at romantic lead or cynic. His unique take on most topics contrasted well with the preppy fifth-graders he was matched with. I thought the chemistry of all of the characters was great, and that Joan Cusack was great as the principal. Definitely time wellspent in the theater.
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Summary: Jack Black was born to play
Review: And weren't we all? An egotistical, disolute rock musician, Jack Black's Dewey Finn seems the most unlikely candidate for teacher at strait-laced Horace Green Prep School. But by the end of the movie, it's clear to even the most reticent of the parents of the children he's taught that he's had an amazingly positive influence on the life of these young people, establishing self-confidence, skills and enthusiams in students whose previous experience learning experience had been designed to make them sheep. I want to be part of his class! Rock on!
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Summary: The Perfect Jack Black Movie!
Review: This movie was tailor-made for Jack Black (literally...I heard in an interview that it was written with him in mind). As other reviewers have said, it's a bit predictable. But that doesn't matter. Jack Black is the reason to go see this movie. He's normally hilarious (especially in 'Saving Silverman' and 'Orange County') but in this movie he really outdoes himself. I haven't laughed out loud so much in a very long time. And Jack isn't the only reason to see this movie. The kids he teaches are just as funny. They are given plenty of great lines, and you end up falling in love with all of them. This movie isn't Casablanca, but it's not trying to be. It's trying to be funny, and it really succeeds. If you don't laugh at this movie, go to the doctor to have your funny bone checked. It just might be broken.
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Summary: School of Rock ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I saw the sneak preview of The School of Rock yesterday and it was AWESOME. You see Jack Black at his funniest, kids that can rock hard and good direction by Richard Linklater. I'm definatly buying this when it comes to DVD.
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