For those about to rock, we salute this film!

Rating: 9/10 (27 September 2003)

This screenplay was written with Jack Black in mind and honestly, who else could pull this piece of delightful hokum off? Nobody! His mugging might turn some folks off but I couldn't get enough. His insanely intense love for rock was so infectious that you couldn't help but embrace it, accept it, bring it home and raise it like your own.
It's a silly little plot: Jack's character Dewey needs cash so he takes over his roomie's persona at a prep school playing a substitute teacher. He essentially shapes the students into a music act for a "Battle of the Bands" after he was kicked out of his own band. None of it really makes any sense but in the Jack Black universe, it makes all the sense in the world. And that's all that matters to me to give this a solid 9 out of 10. Pure joy, pure fun, pure ROCK!