Rock and Roll Live Forever!

Rating: 9/10 (4 December 2006)

I love Jack Black. YOu can have your Leonardo DiCaprio, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean, Jude Law, and any other hunk but I'll take Jack Black because he is not only funny but he appears normal like the rest of us. He rocks this film playing a guitarist who gets kicked out of his own band. Hard on his luck, he accepts a substitute teaching job for $650.00 per week under his roommate's name. Under pressure for not chipping into the rent, his roommate's girlfriend played beautifully by Kathy Silverman even in this small role does a great job. So he takes the substitute job with hopes that he will start a band again. Anyway, he discovers the band under his nose when he learns that the kids play musical instruments at a top notch private school where tuition is about $15,000 per year. Joan Cusack was perfectly cast as the school principal, uptight and disliked by the teachers. Of course, Jack Black's character and the students of ten year old wonder actors and actresses all have a part in the project of a rock band under the disguise of a competition. Anyway, everybody even know-it-all Summer has a part as band manager. The band has a role for everybody in the class. One student works the light while another works the security in hopes of keeping the principal away from the classroom secret. I love his role of teaching rock and roll history. I feel ancient now. Jack Black earned a Golden Globe Nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy Film and I think the honor is very well-deserved and I look forward to more of Jack Black.