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Year:	2003
Country of origin:	USA / Germany
Director:	Richard Linklater
Genre:	Decent Hollywood comedy shocker.
Starring:	Jack Black, Adam Pascal, Sarah Silverman, Joan Cusack
Rating:	3/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332379/
Tagline:	Take Notes.
Favourite line:	"Are we going to be making musical fusion everyday?"

You know, I genuinely anticipated that I would despise this movie with every cell in my cold, soulless body.
A few reasons for that:
1: Jack Black normally annoys me to the point of cruel, cruel tears.
2: Most comedy movies are devoid of a single fucking laugh, and seem to be aimed at the type of people who fall over if they try to eat an ice cream whilst walking.
3: There's a bunch of kids in it.
Yet, despite all of my prejudices and expectations, I actually enjoyed this quite a lot, and laughed out loud at least five times, which is quite a good return.

The plot, for the three people left alive that might not know it:
Black's Dewey Finn is booted out of his band for being a bit of a Jack the Flash, and, through a MacGuffin too ridiculous to explain, becomes a supply teacher at a ridiculously posh prep school. When he observes a music class, he realises that he can turn the class of nerdy bookworms into a rock band ready to compete in a Battle of the Bands competition.

Sound implausible?
Well, of course it is, but that doesn't really matter as this is a feelgood movie, a phrase that would normally have me running to the hills screaming.
It's a one joke affair, well maybe two: Finn's fish out of water schtick and the posh kids learning how to rock out. In the few scenes where these elements are not in place, it quickly tires, but it's a decent enough premise to drag to the finale.
Just.
In an odd choice of casting the delicious Sarah Silverman pops up as a nagging, ceaselessly complaining freak of nature, which is a shame as it does not exploit any of her comic talents.
Would never want to watch it again, but for a lightweight bit of fluff I was expecting much, much worse.