A poor lad is tossed out of his home at age 14 and makes a name for himself with his music.

Rating: 1/10 (9 April 2009)

The songs are great. So just sit back, close your eyes, ignore the dialogue and what else is going happening on the screen, and wait for the music. The rest of the movie is just awful. Maybe I'm too old for Judd Apatow, since I find a lot of his movies very juvenile, and this movie is about as juvenile as it gets (but with actors too old to be doing this). And though I have seen some "juvenile" flicks that are funny, I did not find one thing funny, or even clever, about this movie. The jokes were forced, the dialogue seemed something out of a Ma and Pa Kettle movie, and every single stereotype came across as not funny at all. I also thought, as some did, that the casting was wrong. Not that I do not like John Reilly, but lately he's been in some real bombs (Step Brothers comes to mind). John and Judd: You can do better.