predictable

Rating: Null/10 (24 May 2004)

Despite pretty strong performances from Jack Black and Joan Cusack and the kids in Black's class, this movie was very disappointing. It was extremely predictable. It tended to labor on near the end and a person is left wishing they would just get to the "Battle of the Bands" already. (How many movies have had these Battle of the Bands?)This movie is filled with just about every cookie-cutter character that movies of this sort could have; the unconventional teacher, the talented kid being stifled by his oppressive father, the oppressive father, the uptight principal with the wild-child inside etc. It's too bad with such a talented cast, they couldn't have come up with a better plot.