Amusing and family-mild re: Adult Forbidden Behaviors

Rating: 10/10 (12 March 2004)

This film has plot holes big enough to drive a Buick through but it is so unpretentious and goodhearted that it can't be faulted for them. The vehicle film (starring Jack Black who is on screen throughout) deserves a look apart from its target school-age likely viewers. He is child-like and only temporarily childish; the students have much on him as far as intellect and deportment, even prep school savvy. If you can suspend your disbelief that a Principal with a gloved "iron fist" would let the situation get so far away from her control, then you will like the movie for its appealing aspects (rock philosophy, history, theory, etc.). I give it a 10 *'s and think it's a worthy successor to the pop film of a few years ago: SISTER ACT that was also a feel-good music extravaganza.