so bland, so boring, so dumb

Rating: Null/10 (12 November 2004)

I liked some of the songs and music in this movie, and that is the only good thing I can say about it. Jack Black isn't funny. In this, he plays a loser who gets kicked out of a band. He impersinates his roommate who is a substitute teacher. So, he goes to this fancy, private elementary school to teach for a couple of weeks. At first, he tells the kids just to have recess all day. But, then after hearing them in music class, he decides to form a band with the kids in order to enter the battle of the bands contest.
So, he assigns jobs for all the kids. And I ask, how could no one in the school hear a couple of electric guitars and drums being played several hours a day. Then the movie has the very stereo-typical students who are fat or not popular and being encouraged, in this case by Black, to go out and prove they are not losers.
Joan Cusak plays the rule obsessed principle, and Black sort of becomes friends with her. I guess they didn't have the two hook up since Cusak is so old. But, I found this film boring and not funny. It seemed sort of like kindergarden cop, where we have someone becoming a teacher who has no business being one.
FINAL VERDICT: I guess teens may like it and those who love rock. But, I don't recommend it because it not only did it not make me laugh, it never made me smile.