Rainn Wilson tries his best

Rating: 3/10 (26 August 2008)

I thought this movie's opening sequence was very funny, and there were a few other moments where i laughed out loud. unfortunately throughout most of the movie i was either bored or annoyed. this movie has every cliché and every obligatory plot element of a band movie without their parodying them or adding anything new to them. I like Rainn Wilson and i enjoyed him in this movie, but he couldn't carry all by himself and he was given almost nothing to work with. The rest of the cast gave at least journeyman like performances but the plot and the music were somewhere between weak and abysmal. I was also left with the distinct impression that this movie was written for Jack Black and I really think it was a bad career move for Wilson to accept his cast offs, or try to fit into the second tier of the niche Black has created for slobby but amiable over aged rock star wannabees... it can't be that big a market.