For KISS Themselves Only

Rating: 3/10 (23 October 2000)

Made about twenty years too late, this still could have been a pretty funny little picture if someone had told writer Carl V. Dupre to include a little knowing subtlety to balance the crude sophomoric humor. Four teenage headbangers set off on a quasi-road trip to Detroit to see their idols KISS; there isn't a whole lot for today's kids to relate to and with the slavish devotion the film pays to the band (bassist Gene Simmons is one of the film's producers) there isn't a whole lot for older filmgoers either. There's only the likability of Edward Furlong (the "Terminator" films) to carry it, but that's not nearly enough. Perhaps the biggest offense is the waste of Farrelly Brothers favorite, Lin Shaye.