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Rating: 1/10 (24 August 2004)

how could Richard Linklater do this??? There is no joy in Dougville having seen this movie. Somehow the same man that put together Dazed and Confused, Tape, Before Sunrise, and the visionary Waking Life has stumbled into some sort of Disney inspired insanity with Jack Black (who becomes less and less funny the more and more we see of him.)
maybe i just don't like movies featuring little kids. but i could have cried because this movie is so bad. think rocky or karate kid but with music and prepubescent pond scum. This movie at it's very best only made me want to go listen to a few of the bands it mentions (none that actually appear on the soundtrack... does anyone like AC/DC???????) Ugh!!! I'm so down. How could this terrible movie get made. Who said "hey, let's put jack black with a bunch of cute kids and he could make silly faces and act like a third rate chris farley, then load up the soundtrack with music that runs the gamut from disasterous to decent, put some sill feel good ending in and blammo!!!!! we'll make some money!"
i believe the next line is "and god wept"