Like a warm cottage pie on a winter's evening, this is one of those comforting, naturally likeable movies that truly does gain from Jack Black being in it.
Yes, I know, it's not exactly adding much to cinema and I do remember a teacher's aid saying how she must have seen the opening a dozen times but never watched the movie.
This is wish fulfilment, ultimately; the imperfect wannabe musician/slacker lands a gig via fraud just to pay the rent but he sees the musical talent and actually turns prissy private school kids into a rock band.
That much was in the trailer (sorry to explain the plot in the review, I know that's annoying) but this is the charm and if you cannot get behind this then watch anyway. They find a way to make you want to believe this could work as Dewey winces at the kids tastes in music and he finds a role for everyone.
It's touching in the way it explores how people can be so much more than they seem on the surface and how it takes a special person to help you realise that you always had the power to be amazing.
Like I said, this adds nothing much to art (though it IS art) but it's feel-good fun of a kind that I think will stand the test of time.
Yes, I know, it's not exactly adding much to cinema and I do remember a teacher's aid saying how she must have seen the opening a dozen times but never watched the movie.
This is wish fulfilment, ultimately; the imperfect wannabe musician/slacker lands a gig via fraud just to pay the rent but he sees the musical talent and actually turns prissy private school kids into a rock band.
That much was in the trailer (sorry to explain the plot in the review, I know that's annoying) but this is the charm and if you cannot get behind this then watch anyway. They find a way to make you want to believe this could work as Dewey winces at the kids tastes in music and he finds a role for everyone.
It's touching in the way it explores how people can be so much more than they seem on the surface and how it takes a special person to help you realise that you always had the power to be amazing.
Like I said, this adds nothing much to art (though it IS art) but it's feel-good fun of a kind that I think will stand the test of time.