just OK

Rating: 6/10 (6 April 2004)

This was nothing special but you can get tired of Jack Black for 90 minutes. He's better in supporting roles like High Fidelity but he can't carry a movie by himself. There isn't much of a plot just Black teaching kids in elementary school how to rock. Black's roommate is p***ed at him for not paying the rent and he wants him to get a job and stop with the music. His band kicks him out and when he gets a job as a substitute teacher, he lies about who he is and tells them he is his roommate. Most of the kids in his class are pretty talented musically and Joan Cusack is the principal. This was Richard Linklater's first mainstream film after all those independent films but Dazed and Confused really wasn't an independent film.