It was okay

Rating: 7/10 (21 August 2014)

I really wish I could give this movie a 10 but just the fact that Jack Black is in it prevents that. I never cared much for him as an actor or as a musician. Now onto the movie itself. I found a lot of the script dull and some of the lines really stupid like "It's 9 and that's a magic number." About the only time Black does remotely good acting is when he's ranting about "the man" to the kids. The rest of the film, his "acting" is well below average. Sarah Silverman was also pretty lame in this film. When it's discovered that Black is pretending to be his roommate and the scene returns to the apartment, the first thing Sarah says is "I have nothing to say to you" and then 5 seconds later she starts tearing him a new one. Really? The only reason I gave this a rating of 7 is that I like the intro song and the song the kids perform for the competition. Definitely not the kind of movie you want to watch if you're looking for laughs unless you like laughing at how comically horrible this movie is.