Wooden, predictable

Rating: 1/10 (13 November 2005)

Jack Black is a wooden actor in this childish effort. This is a typical Hollywood feel good movie that frankly left me wondering why I bothered wasting 1 hour and 33 minutes of my life watching. If you want to watch a good movie along a similar vein try "The School of Rock" which is a documentary of Paul Greens school for kids and adolescents. It pulls no punches and has actual performances by the kids (they pull of some good Zappa stuff which is really incredible). What I really hated about the school of rock was Jack Black, he's a limited skill actor whose only ability is to play an obnoxious know it all, he's a poor musician, and it shows all throughout the film. The children are stereotypical kids whose parents are also stereotypes. These types of films should come with very big disclaimer such as: this is yet another cash grab which will leave you running to your home PC to use bit torrent to download a decent movie instead of suffering through claptrap like this. Hollywood, quit making garbage like this and I may actually go to a theater rather than borrowing a rented DVD.