Hellen
I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Stephanie
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Bob
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Python Hyena
The Rocker (2008): Dir: Peter Cattaneo / Cast: Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Teddy Geiger, Emma Stone, Josh Gad: Rock and roll comedy about high energy, which is something the screenplay doesn't possess much of. After twenty years Rainn Wilson is still bitter over the rejection of a band that found fame. When he accepts an offer to drum in his nephew's band it leads to record deals, videos, tours, and serious facts. From director Peter Cattaneo with a decent setup and rewarding ending. This is all a payoff to the talent of Wilson who plays off his youth unaware of physical limitations. Unfortunately this is a major setback for Cattaneo whose previous film The Full Monty was far more innovative and received greater acclaim. While Rainn carries the film Christina Applegate as a mother is wasted. Her prime function is to lecture him while leaving viewers with the obvious belief that she actually likes him. Teddy Geiger plays that sour faced band member who needs to be told that he has talent before he arrives where viewers already were an hour ago. Emma Stone plays a female band member and that is pretty much the height of her involvement. For a superior film I recommend the far superior and funnier This is Spinal Tap. The film settles for B movie appeal as oppose to examining the lifestyles therefore it doesn't rock as hard as it should. Score: 2 ½ / 10
cadfile
So why was this movie so bad? You have Rainn Wilson with a paunch and terrible hair piece in the flashback scenes and the scenes set in the present, who played drums for a cheesy teen pop band, who were happy to have a video on 2008s version of MTV, who had a party hosted by MySpace, rode to gigs in a bus (really? A new band with no album yet), are scheduled to open for a heavy metal band (poor kids - the band not the audience), and have an out-of-left-field break up.Google the term tone deaf.There needs to be some parts of a movie that don't shatter the suspension of disbelief but every minute of this movie seem to do just that for me.The only good thing about the film was the kids playing the band.
Maniac-9
I get the idea that the studios after the success of The School of Rock movie wanted to make their own version of a Rock N' Roll themed movie, but they obviously struck out here. First of all the band they chose to be the star of the movie is an Emo style band and they make the villainous evil popular band that you're supposed to hate a hard rock band. I'm sorry but if you go to a rock concert anywhere and you have the choice to listening to either an emo band play or a hard rock band the harder band is going to win out every time. And you can tell that the studio who greenlit this was hoping to have Jack Black play the lead role but when he turned them down they decided to go with Rainn Wilson instead. I like Wilson as Dwight Schrute but it's kind of hard to buy him as a rock n' roll musician.
RainDogJr
There's a scene in Peter Cattaneo's THE ROCKER in which the main character (Rainn Wilson's sort of version of "rocker Jack Black", Robert Fishman aka Fish) correctly puts the, as he call it, "drive test" as a true indicator if a song does or does not work. I mean, who doesn't love to drive with a badass tune playing in the car? Who doesn't love to drive to some great The Doors album? Or to some killer Motörhead tunes and feel, like Fish says, "on top of the world"? Here Fish is out there driving together with one of his band-mates (Teddy Geiger's character Curtis). They will test a song Curtis wrote. For them the song does work, does rock, and does make you feel like you're sitting on top of the world. But if a movie with as a title like THE ROCKER says that a song like the one Curtis wrote totally rocks, something is pretty darn wrong. Nobody who truly loves rock music will drive to that song and f****** rock! Probably in every single review of this movie we have a comparison with Richard Linklater's THE SCHOOL OF ROCK. If you still wonder why, well I just say to you that Wilson's character is a frustrated rocker who now will find a new chance with a band of kids. Hell, it actually begins in the EXACT same way (with the main character being kicked out of a band) and ends in the… well enough with the spoilers. To finish my "drive test" point, here a real problem is that the kids don't rock (they are not really *kids* though, but adolescents). The music is closer to the Jonas Brothers than to The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Cream, AC/DC, or any of the other great rock bands that THE SCHOOL OF ROCK paid homage to. And certainly that homage thing was one of the reasons why that 2003 Linklater movie was a real blast. Yes, there's only one true rocker here, and Wilson as Fish really is good, darn good fun (just read again Fish's dialog I put as the summary!), but in the end he just can't help the *just plain unmemorable* rest of the movie. Also, in the end everyone sort of forgot that Fish was a real rocker, you know, he *has* to be around a so-so cast of kids, damn Jane Lynch playing the un-cool serious character (his husband was funny, though), enough said. A mixed bag, the kid of thing that makes you say, in the most convinced way, the "I will not watch this again".
