Some really clever bits are done in by an annoying Jack Black and limited vocabulary

Rating: 4/10 (3 September 2007)

The story of how Tenacious D came together.
This is a movie I can admire more than I can like. I like the fact its got whole passages that are sung, I like the weird trips it takes, I like the craft of the film. In its way its a bastard sibling of Idlewild and its go for broke atmosphere. Unfortunately what its trying to do and what it does in spurts doesn't amount to add up to much. Jack Black plays Jack Black in his real annoying mode and while this does count for something some times, mostly I wanted to slap him and say grow up. The use of oral sex related terms is easily to be counted as way too obsessive. The words are not the sort of things that bleed into the background, and while I'm no prude, I wonder how a movie that is often as visually stunning and as clever as this one is can have such a limited vocabulary when it comes to dialog. The effect is to lessen everything else.
That said its not a bad movie but its not as good as it should have been, nor is it one thats going to bear repeat viewings.