Listen up people..there really was music before Puff Daddy and Emenem.

Rating: Null/10 (16 July 2004)

You can keep your gangster rap homage flicks and your "save the last dance" rubbish and after watching School of Rock you know what you can do with your hip hop R&B talentless claptrap. This is a film that kicks ass and the music score goes on to kick many more.
I look at Jack Black on the screen as Dewy Finn and I can see myself...and my brother. We are he. For years we have lived in a world where true rock and rockers seem to have disappeared and we have felt increasingly out of place and annoyed with the soul divas and the whole trance, dance, hard house orientated world.
Just when it seemed that there was no longer any variety left in music at all, Jack the Black came amongst us to educate and inform , to show a bling bling, baggy panted, baseball capped, moronic society what true music and musical excellence is really about and to instruct us all in the satisfying yet somewhat forgotten art of rocking.
Although Jack Black is hilarious as usual and the kids so very, very talented, it is the soundtrack which really deserves the awards and accolades. It runs as an A-Z of the best in rock music over the last 35 years. Those bands who are not heard musically are least mentioned with honours as Black's History of Rock classes educate the kids from everything from The Beatles to Yes (my favourite band ever)
If I am grateful to this film for one thing, it has at last given me an opportunity to talk about my favourite bands without some brain-dead spotty teen who has never made it out of the "drum and bass" section to look at me as if I was some kind of weirdo and say things like, "who?" and "what?"
At last this is a film that really rocks and die hard rockers worldwide welcome it with open arms. So dust off your leather, grow your hair and head-bang till it falls of your shoulders, this party is long, long, long overdue.