Outrageously funny, incredibly stupid, and astoundingly addicting

Rating: 9/10 (21 March 2007)

For some reason, I am a huge fan of Jack Black but have never heard of the band Tenacious D. I thought because of this I wouldn't really enjoy the movie and the jokes would fly over my head. So I didn't see it in theaters even though my friend said it was hysterical. Well on a Virgin Atlantic flight back from London it was showing on-demand and I decided to give it a whirl. Besides, what else was I going to do for eight hours? From the opening scene I was tapping my foot to the hard-rocking acoustic metal sounds of Jack Black and Kyle Gass in the classic song "Kickapoo." Already I was enjoying it, and I was ready for more of a good movie to make me laugh.
Tenacious D did more than just make me laugh--it made me want to spend hundreds of dollars to see this amazing band in concert. It made me want to learn all the songs on guitar and play them. It made me laugh HARD (especially the scene where JB gets high on shrooms, absolutely classic!) at the essence of stupid humor, the type of humor that takes a two-year-old's brain to comprehend but a master filmmaker to craft into a good movie. They did it with Dumb and Dumber. They did it with Anchorman. And now they've done it with Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny. Not only that--I can't stop watching the damn film! I found it on the Amazon marketplace for $10 and spend hours extracting $10 in coins lying on my closet floor. Oh, man, owning this movie was totally worth spending that hour kneeling down in my closet.
The storyline's absolutely ridiculous. But for some reason you appreciate JB and KG's majestic quest to acquire the Pick of Destiny, a magical guitar pick that came from Satan's chipped tooth itself. In fact--this movie is almost like a reincarnation of This Is Spinal Tap--it rocks out HARD, makes you laugh, make you gasp in shock, and makes fun of rock music in special, intimate ways. In Tenacious D, it's a bunch of funny Satanic imagery.
This is a movie not to be missed by any fan of stupid humor movies, Jack Black, the band Tenacious D, or anyone who likes to ROCK. Highly recommended.