The School of Rock | | Cast : | Jack Black, Mike White, Joan Cusack | | Director : | Richard Linklater | | Studio : | Paramount Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, DTS Surround Sound | | Released Date : | October 03, 2003 | | DVD Released Date : | December 29, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 25, 2005 | | Summary | The long way to the top | Content
 | The story for School of Rock would be one of the more absurd plotlines in recent years if recent years haven't been littered with so many absurd films. This teetered on the edge but landed strong for the awesome performances by Jack Black and Joan Cusack, the style of the film's direction, and of course, the soundtrack.
The people who made it probably realized the plot was too weak and unconvincing to drive itself, so they made a smart move by using the plot as a tool to display the great behavioral comedy. Jack Black impersonates his best friend to get smoe money substitute teaching. There's a problem, though. He knows nothing about the cirriculum. Instead he teaches them little goodies like the definition of a hangover. "Does that mean you're drunk?" "Close. It means I was drunk yesterday."
The film sympathizes with him but only to a point. Sure, he's an innocent guy who only wants to make great music, but he's also self-absorbed and refuses to take responsibility for anything. The film shows him for what he really is, a creep.
But then something happens. He finds out the kids are talented classical musicians. He decides to harness that energy into rock lightning by mentoring them into his lifestyle.
It all leads up to a battle of the bands featuring School of Rock in one of the best musical numbers of the new millenium. The furious parents watch it and grow proud. It's tacky, but the scene is pulled off with such grace and style, I didn't even mind. They end up losing to a talentless emo band who look sexier, but School of Rock gets called out for the encore.
The kids are extremely talented musicians, but most of them don't have the passion to carry a performance on their own. Jack Black a seasoned musician with the band Tenacious D balances their technical brilliance with emotion enough to make up for it. The same can be said for the film as a whole. The result, great fun for all ages. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 11, 2005 | | Summary | A dream class!!! | Content
| Wish that was my class!!! Bought this movie to share with my kids and what a ball we had!! Funny, entertaining, informative. A unique blend of silly humor and messages of responsibility. Great alternative to the "sex for kids" movies so common today. Opened the kids' eyes and minds to the world of classic rock, real musicians, music for its own sake and as corny as it sounds, the ridiculousness of commercialism. Just a great movie!!! Both want to take up an instrument now!!!!!!! |
| Rating | | | Date | August 01, 2005 | | Summary | School of Fakes | Content
| Come on Jack Black, anyone can fake playing a guitar solo better then you can. You could at least move your fingers up and down instead of moving the guitar neck up and down. Zack seem to know what he is doing but being a guitarist myself for the past 5 years, i make Zack looks like an amatuer. What im i saying....Zack is just an 11 yr old kid. He has lots to learn to be good. As far as the movie goes, Sarah Silverman is a good actress but she is not what one reviewer said 'hot'. There are some funny scenes in this movie and the direction is quite good. Watch it if your a Jack Black fan....watch Cable guy too since he was in that one as well.
Rock on! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 27, 2005 | | Summary | I Fixed A Big Problem | Content
| I for one think this DVD is AB-FAB. One problem that I seemed to have with this DVD was that when I played in on my computer DVD with Windows Media Player 9 & 10 the sound would waver in and out like someone was slightly playing with the controls. This was annoying. The reason why I choose to view movies on the computer is because I have a nice sound system hooked up to it, plus the 17" monitor screen is larger than our regular 13" TV. The DVD plays fine in a regular DVD player.
This week out of necessity I stumbled across the term "CoDec" for computers that essentially is the computer's ability to decode the coded information on digital media, DVD and music files. It's a little confusing at first but after a while I learned that a good amount of people don't like the way Windows Media Player works. So I disabled that player and downloaded "K-Lite Mega Codec Pack". There's two media players that come with it and now the sound problem is fixed! It turned out to be a codec problem.
If you've ever had a problem with a movie's sound then it may pay off to look into getting a better media player and codec pack.
Cheers,
Chris B. in Iowa
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| Rating | | | Date | July 25, 2005 | | Summary | Kids and music fans should like this one | Content
| I watched this movie with my kids and they liked it a lot! As a music fan, I appreciated some of the music references but as an adult I thought this movie was okay. Jack Black plays a loveable loser who loves his music. Definitely worth watching with your kids on family movie night. |
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