I hated it so bad this is the worst movie ever just horrible

Jack Black stars as a failed rock musician who in financial desperation, pretends to be his friend Mike White and takes a job as a substitute teacher at a prestigious private elementary school. Having no qualification, he initially treats it as an opportunity to goof of, until he realizes that his students are fairly gifted musicians. He trains them to be a rock band so that he can enter a battle of the bands competition and get revenge on his former band mates who kicked him out. Do I even need to tell you that Black learns to care about these kids? There's really nothing original here, but Black is in his element here and makes the material work. He gets some pretty solid support from Joan Cusack as the school principal. It's hardly among Richard Linklater's best films, but his relaxed, stoner style is well suited for the material.

Every once in a while there comes a piece of work focusing on disillusionment. "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" looks at the conversion of Christmas from a religious festivity to a cynical excuse for frenzied commercialism. Michelangelo Antonioni's trilogy consisting of "L'avventura", "La notte" and "L'eclisse" focuses on the alienation resulting from modernity. And now, Richard Linklater's "School of Rock", which looks at anger arising from the co-opting of popular culture. Jack Black plays a raucous, unambitious musician who poses as his friend (a substitute teacher) to take a position at a prestigious elementary school. He proceeds to teach the students about rock's rebellious origins, and how it got turned into a dumbed-down product. Soon, he gets the class to form a band.In addition to how Black's character gets the students to stick it to the man (his words), the movie also addresses the obsession that many parents have with seeing their children be the best at everything. Joan Cusack's strict disciplinarian is the embodiment of this attitude. Basically, the movie is an excuse to have fun, and it succeeds in every way. It was also interesting to see Sarah Silverman in an early role (I didn't know about her until a few years later, although it turns out that she had appeared in some movies by this point). True, the movie isn't a masterpiece, but it's not supposed to be. If you laugh while watching the movie, then it's done its job.

I guess the concept behind School of Rock's story is old as the hills. A good-hearted but too much of a screw-around loser gets kicked out of his natural habitat and has to pretend to be someone else to get around people who have no prejudice against him. Then he screws around some more, doing antics that make you cringe, until his good-heartedness finally wins you over piece by piece, and then the happy ending ensues. Have fun, feel good, bye-bye!Well, Jack Black has a real talent for turning the "feel good" into "feel embarrassed". A good half of this film, when he's moping around and making idiotic jokes and faces, you really have to battle your instinct to shut your eyes and ears to avoid that horrible shame. Because when it comes to that, one can think of no man more obnoxious and annoying than Mr Black.But, luckily for us, School of Rock is not about our chubby narcissistic doofus. It's about the kids who he teaches while on the mission of impersonating his spineless roommate to earn some easy cash. The kids really steal the show, providing the film with enough character versatility and the real-world child issues. And despite being an abysmal teacher of proper things, Jack Black's infantile character manages to reach out to the kids, gain their trust and wake up the talents which the "proper" education tries so hard to mould into something useful, convenient but utterly generic. And from then on, the students take over and lead this unlikely alliance to something that ultimately makes this flick enjoyable and even fun.The "everyone is special, you just need to find your true self" trope gets kinda worn out with time, especially since the real world is not as shiny as it is in the movies, and not everyone is just a vessel of pure talent waiting to be unearthed. But this time, School of Rock managed to nail this theme without getting cloying or force-feeding us that political correctness. And although i would hardly want my kids (if i had any) to be tutored by a lazy bum like Dewey Finn, i'd definitely show them this liberating piece of teen spirit. Because self-confidence is what kids need the most to grow into someone mentally healthy and capable to love and respect himself. And what could be a better source of self-confidence than a sloppy fat guy basking in the self-propagated glory of a rock star, especially if that's what he is really good at.