Jack Black's own comedy rocks, but not completely

Rating: 8/10 (4 October 2004)

spoilers. THE SCHOOL OF ROCK is the movie that was made for Jack Black, he fits perfectly into the role as a failed rocker that listens to the Gods Of Rock. The plot is very much entertaining and so is the movie, but the big disappointment is in the movie's latter half. It slowly gets more and more like a typical comedy, and much of the rocking originality's disappears.
Dewey is the misunderstood rocker that gets kicked out of his own band. Being a lazy asshole he decides to pretend being the substitute teacher, who originally is the housekeeper of the apartment his living in. Earning easy money with sleeping in the classroom and smart kids don't understanding what kind of teacher this is, something soon happens between Dewey and the pupils. He discovers that they're all listening to teen, s*** pop and gets furious with rock anger! He learns them how to play instruments and learns them how to play heavy metal music. Without letting parents or any other of the school teachers know, they secretly start a rock band in the classroom. So they start practicing, to join the Battle Of The Bands...
Jack Black is the movie, and with a rocking soundtrack with great rock tunes from Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Who, The Darkness and so on. It is a highly entertaining movie, but it fails in its climax part with being just another typical comedy. Although the rest of the movie is a funny, rock'n'roll movie. STARS: 4/5