At 9:00pm on Friday 9th December Jack Black starred in the hit comedy ‘School of Rock’ shown on Film4. He plays the role of ‘Dewey Finn’ a struggling rock musician desperate to launch his music career. When he finds himself sacked from his band because of his immature behaviour and crazy stage antics his debts soon begin to pile up leaving him in desperate need of work.
Thinking that drastic action is definitely needed, he impersonates his well qualified friend Ned Schneebly (played by Mike White who stars as Buck?in Chuck and Buck) to take on a temporary job teaching music at one of America’s top prep schools. Unable to teach anything but rock music, Finn soon realises that some of the kids are genuinely talented so he convinces them that they should enter a ‘Battle of the bands’ competition which could prove to be the perfect solution to his money problems and his one last shot at hitting it big in the world of Rock.
This is made a reality because Finn has a natural ability to make shy retiring people come out of their shell and behave like confident rock stars. It’s all about attitude!
School of Rock is one of those brilliant movies that appeals to both children and adults and is genuinely entertaining for both. Fans of Jack Black will know that he has been singing for a long time as one half of the comedy rock band ‘Tenacious D’ so he is certainly no stranger to music and is capable of playing this role to the best of his ability.
Black oozes life and energy in all of his scenes and has some brilliant one-liners and comedy moments that only Jack Black could carry off. The supporting cast in this movie are mainly children, all of whom do a great job performing and playing various different instruments and really add to the ‘feel good’ factor of the whole film.
This is no nonsense family friendly comedy that is worth watching again and again, especially if you like this kind of music, which I really do.
Full cast list for School of Rock: Abraham Esparza, Adam Pascal, Aleisha Allen, Amber Gristak, Ambi Daniel, Amy Sedaris, Angelo Massagli, Angus Young, Barry Shurchin, Brian Falduto, Caitlin Hale, Carlos J. Da Silva, Carlos Velazquez, Cary Clark, Catherine A. Callahan, Chris Line, Chris Stack, Cole Hawkins, Crash Cortez, Elisa Pugliese, Eron Otcasek, Frank Whaley, Heather Goldenhersh, Ian O’Malley, Jack Black, Jaclyn Neidenthal, James Hosey, Jane DeNoble, Janet Huege, Joan Cusack, Joanna Adler, Joe Wachowski, Joey Gaydos Junior, John E. Highsmith, Jordan-Claire Green, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Kathleen McNenny, Kelly Anne Burns, Kevin Alexander Clark, Kim Brockington, Kimberly Grigsby, Kyle Meaney, Lauren Adler, Leanne Cabrera, Lee Wilkof, Lucas Babin, Lucas Papaelias, MacIntyre Dixon, Mandy Siegfried, Marty Murphy, Mary Fortune, Maryam Hassan, Michael Dominguez-Rudolph, Mike Clemente, Mike White, Miranda Cosgrove, Nicky Katt, Nicole Ilise Clark, Rebecca Brown, Riley G. Matthews Junior, Robert Lin, Robert Tsai, Ryan O’Connor, Sarah Silverman, Scott Graham, Scott Skversky, Sharon Washington, Stewart Summers, Suzzanne Douglass, Tim Hopper, Timothy ‘Speed’ Levitch, Veronica Afflerbach, Wally Dunn, Zachary Infante.