Unwatchable

Rating: Null/10 (9 March 2007)

The highlight of the terribly titled Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny comes before the New Line Cinema logo even appears on screen. In a cartoon animated by John K of Ren & Stimpy fame, Jack Black and Kyle Gass fly off the force of their own flatulence. It's stupid, it's immature, and surprisingly funny. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie is just the first two. Once the live-action begins, the quality declines at an unstoppable rate. Jack Black and Kyle Gass, capable of being hilarious in small doses, have managed to create a motion picture so juvenile and limp that one would expect it was assembled by putting together ideas the duo came up with while in seventh grade. Their performances also are of middle school quality. Neither of them show any of the charm they have shown in previous works. A pointless cameo by Ben Stiller seems like an attempt of temporarily saving the audience. Only problem is, like the rest of the flick, it doesn't work. 1/10 (I'm giving a point for the aforementioned opening).