Appalling concept!!!

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2013)

I hated the very idea of this movie and when I saw it on TV I almost turned it off after 5 minutes. However I did not and was so rewarded by it. Jack Black, who seemed to appear in everything a few years ago - usually of dodgy quality - was excellent in this. The idea of turning kids onto rock music really worked and it helped that they could already play instruments. My wife enjoyed it in spite of herself and warmed to the humour and the execution of the plot. Joan Cusack was good in her part as the principal of the school and the kids in Black's class were great too without being the "cutesy" school kids that usually appear in this kind of film.