Disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (21 November 2007)

I, Michael Margetis, am a huge Tenacious D fan and even I found their movie to be stupid. Isn't that the whole idea though? It's supposed to stupid, right? Well, yeah, but it's also supposed to be funny. 'Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny' is funny far too seldom though. Most of the time it's just eye-rollingly cheesy.
The best part of the film is without a doubt the songs. The songs are just flat-out hysterical from 'Kickapoo' which starts out the movie with the ingenious lyric, "A long-ass f__king time ago in a town called Kickapoo...", or even the film's conclusion with 'POD - Pick of Destiny' which is even funnier if not extremely awkward. Jack Black is side-split-tingly funny in both his dialogue and mannerisms as always, but Kyle Gass, the other half of the dynamic duo, is just flat-out terrible. He's a horrendous actor, his humor seems really forced and he doesn't have any screen presence what-so-ever. The plot is predictable and well, flat-out stupid. One of the best things about this film is the cameos -- Tim Robbins plays a creepy backwoods hermit while Ben Stiller sporting big frizzy hair plays a guitar store owner.
All in all, there is a few very funny scenes despite the uproariously funny music number, but most of the time 'Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny' is a dud. Grade: C-