Average at best

Rating: 6/10 (25 November 2006)

Let me start off by saying that I loved the HBO series and most of their songs, but this movie isn't really on par. It seems like a few years of doing kid movies combined with that horrible disease that we will all get called "old" diluted his original sense of humor.
There's still some funny moments, like the Satan speech at the end and the car chase, so Jack Black isn't totally washed up. It just seems like they were trying too hard to make a movie version of the show. Did we really need to see an outline of his penis? The show, back in 99 or whenever, would've made that scene 10 times funnier without resorting to such an obvious shock gag.
I think what JB needs to do is leave this style behind him and find a new style of comedy for him. He's a funny man, but all good comics change over the years and this style doesn't work as well as it used to. The show was funny because that's just what he and KG did. The movie fails because they tried too hard to go back to that old spot.
I've seen worse, but I've seen WAY better.