Be careful what you wish for - you may get it.

Rating: 7/10 (23 November 2004)

Have just finished watching this on video, and looked at various comments. It wasn't bad; it wasn't all that good. There were some nice moments - Timothy Spall good, as always, and I liked the bit when the original lead singer Bobby not only admitted he was gay but took off his wig. I think it showed the difference between leading a tribute band and getting to have a fairly ordinary life otherwise, with a loving girlfriend, and living the rock star life for real, constantly on the move, can't go out and just hang around because you'll be mobbed, your girlfriend bored out of her skull because there's nothing for her to do except what she doesn't want to do (be a vacuous stoned rock chick), women constantly hitting on you just to score with a rock star. And in this case, when finally you start wanting to do your own thing, you can't, you have to sing what other people write, just go on doing the same old thing. So Chris Cole grows up a bit and decides what he *really* wants. Okay, so it's a cliché, and I agreed with a reviewer who said he wanted more characterisation, especially on Chris and Emily and their backstory. But it was quite well acted, I thought; good chemistry between Wahlberg and Aniston (let's be honest, she's the reason I watched the film). In many ways, the first part of the film was the best. So, 5/10.