Sucked. I could stop right there, but why? About 150 years ago, back in 1999 I remember recording a movie off of HBO (on VHS, that’s how long ago) and I got this weird short about two moronic guys playing acoustic guitar at an open mic night. The reason I remember it so clearly was because of the scene with them trying to come up with another song and Jack Black is hurling abuse at Kyle. It was so funny. When their CD came out I bought it. It had its funny moments, a little underwhelming.
Now Jack Black has hit the big time and I have come to realize that I like him in very small doses. Anything more than ten minutes and I just don’t think he’s funny. Maybe I’m just getting too old. Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Will Ferrell; I just don’t get them.
So enough about my inability to expand with the times, let’s get on to trashing the movie. Actually, I can’t really trash it because it wasn’t anything more than what it promised to be. It was a long version of the original shorts. The band comes together, they play open mic nights. They stumble on a rock and roll secret; the greatest guitar players of all time have been playing with the same pick. A guitar pick made from Satan’s tooth. They go on a road trip to steal the pick, hilarity ensues. They return with the pick just in time to play the open mic night and just before they go on, they argue over who will use the pick and they break it. Satan reclaims it and they challenge him to a rock duel. They lose but knock one of Satan’s horns loose. They keep the horn and turn it into a bong. Nothing much else.
I’d have to say, even for a burner flick, this sucked. If I were looking for a movie to watch while baked, there are a zillion other movies that are much more entertaining, “Harold and Kumar” comes to mind… The only parts I liked were in the open sequences. Meat Loaf as the oppressive dad and then the kid “prays” to Dio. That was cool. Everyone should pray to Dio! No recurrence of either of them later in the movie though. The origins of the band was tolerable but the open mic and the road trip sequences were just too lame for me. Maybe because they were later in the movie. Maybe it’s not a scene problem. I probably wouldn’t like much of anything after more than the initial scenes. Remember, ten minutes and I’m done with these guys.
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