Sometimes a kid's movie delivers

Rating: 8/10 (29 January 2006)

I bought the movie mainly because i'm a Jack Black fan, and i figured that if nothing else, we'd get some goofing off from the little Madman. There's classic Jack Black comedy aplenty but there's a lot more to this movie. They started out by doing one brilliant thing: In stead of hiring kid's who are actors, they hired kids who are musicians and i can tell you, as a guy who's played guitar for roughly 15 years it is so refreshing to see that for once they don't fake it, and the music you hear corresponds to what you see them playing. The kids are all amazing and i hope we'll see a lot more of them in the future. And Kudos to Sarah Silverman for a great job in portraying perhaps the most annoying girlfriend i think i've ever seen in a movie! The movie stays true to it's characters all the way (Dewey Finn isn't transformed into some do-goody who adopts three of the kids and marries the principal!) and it lets the kids be kids, and reminds us adults how much it sucked when our parents controlled our lives.