If this was a comedy, I would've given it ten stars!

Rating: 1/10 (29 March 2015)

I laughed my head off at every scene in this movie! It was hilarious! The whole thing reminded me of an SCTV skit. I expected John Candy or Martin Short to come out at any second throughout the entire movie. Now I know why musicians and music students are making fun of this movie all over the US. I was a HS music teacher for more than 15 years, and a professional musician my entire life, and I've never seen a funnier movie about music in my entire life. The only one that came close to this was Ken Russell's version of "Tommy", but Whiplash took itself much more seriously than Tommy did. People are getting more and more brainless about music every day (especially jazz), so it didn't surprise me that many people thought this was a good movie. I guess I'm not as angry about how bad this piece of garbage was compared to the other people that gave it a bad review, because I waited for it to come out on DVD, and didn't waste a lot of money seeing it in a theater. This would make a great feature on Mystery Science Theater 3000 it's so bad!