No Sense Movie

Rating: 3/10 (4 April 2005)

To me, Jack Black belongs to a category of "Luck" Celebrities such as Jim Carrey, Pauley Shore, Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler and David Spade who somehow became big time stars by proving to be as little talented as possible, (it gives hope to other no-talents to break into show business) although Spade did do Dickie Roberts and Carrey did Bruce Almighty so there is hope for the rest. In this odd little piece of would-be MST3K fodder, Black plays a screwed up, conspiratorial pothead who thinks he's a musician who impersonates a substitute teacher and somehow gets away with it with even unlikelier results. The major snafu in this movie is that he tells these kids "to keep it a secret." Thankfully, he seems to live in a world where logic does not exist. If these kids were as smart as they seemed, especially in a world where kids can be abducted, kidnapped from their homes or abused, they'd be reporting him to everyone who would listen. They're smart enough to keep it a secret, but dumb enough to not figure out what's going on. Like I said, this film occurs in a fishbowl with the dumbest fish somehow coming up with an end result and then orchestrating an unlikely and implausible sequence of events to get there. I hate to think what this movie stands for: Warping and ruining the minds of kids is acceptable as long as you can prove to everyone you can pretend to be a responsible adult. I'm sorry, but I refuse to accept that.