Blogcritics Comments on School of Rock

Comment by TDavid

Sun, 26 Sep 2004 07:54:35 EDT

I thought School of Rock was a fun popcorn movie. No, it wasn't a great movie, but it was worthwhile for an hour or so of entertainment. Jack Black cannot be taken too seriously, he's sort of like Adam Sandler but on a much smaller scale. This review, though well written and factually accurate, seems to ignore the fact that a percentage of movie-goers enjoy fun, mostly implausible and predictable popcorn movies like this. On the action side there are movies like Cellular to whet these same appetite. Right or wrong, this audience exists ... and sating them is part of the Hollywood movie machine. Just saw Mr. 3000 and that movie needed more of the fun factor that was in School of Rock, actually.

Comment by Stuart Bullock

Sun, 26 Sep 2004 04:45:09 EDT

Good critique. Saw this film in the same week end as Memento - do yourself a favour, ignore School of Rock (too predictable, rehashed, cliche) and see Memento (unpredictable, original - a good derivation of Rashamon).

Comment by SFC SKI

Fri, 3 Sep 2004 13:56:25 EDT

Dude, you need to put on some AC/DC and learn to enjoy life, what are you, some kind of navel gazing emo-fan? Tom's right, I thnk you missed the broadly sarcastic tone of the film. BTW, the parents of the kids in the film would be about the right age, minus 15 or so years, to have been rockin' out in a Camaro on the way to the mall, no wonder they would like to see their kids rock out.

Comment by Tom Johnson

Fri, 3 Sep 2004 13:48:07 EDT

This is a parody of all those "teacher shows kids the really important lessons in life" movies. It sounds like you took this film very seriously and missed out on most of the fun. Too bad. Maybe you can give yourself some time away from this and come back later to view it with the thought in mind that it's a parody. Oh, and count me as another of those who have reviewed this.