Good concept, poorly executed.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

yes, it's cheesy. and yes, it's hard to believe that someone the caliber of peter o'toole would deign to be in a film like this. but i absolutely love this movie. it's nothing more than an enjoyable time filler/waster, but it's not meant to be anything more than that. alicia silverstone does a good job and thankfully lacks the whiny-ness of some of her previous roles (cher - clueless; eve - blast from the past; etc.). i truly think this is one of her better roles, even though it's a smaller film. the actors all look like believable musicians. and the music is good, too. though the plot can be a bit predictable, it's still a good time of a movie. it's nothing that will ever win an award (i think it's even too good for a razzie), but if you're looking for something that is strictly fun and doesn't require any thought, this is a good one to watch.

This movie is called "Rock My World" in Canada. It is wrought with absurd cliché's. The sweet innocent band versus the conniving commercial oriented meanie from the record label. The band is purportedly an uberfamous "rock" act, but the songs are corny (think an angry richard marx with a guitar). The band seems more like the ARchies than they do smashing pumpkins...in short its a kids movie, innocent and harmless. Admittedly I enjoyed it, it has some funny one liners and the freshness of youthful rebellion has some appeal to the dreamy inner child, granted the ego is able to get over the silly plot, and enjoy the movie. THe guys are cute, and I was surprised that Alicia silverstone was convincing as a bassist and seems to have finally outgrown the clueless curse/aura. Joan & Peter O'toole ensure the film has class and quality, and are a delight to watch.A fun family surprise. Very easy to poke fun, but I have the thing on tape. Go figure.

i saw this movie this morning and thoroughly enjoyed it. While it was not the most intelligent movie ever made, I feel that the previous critique was a bit harsh. This movie was fun, no more no less. Admittedly the actors won't win any awards for their performances but in my opinion they pulled it off. The story was quit shady but at least it wasn't boring and repetitive. I also very much so enjoyed the music. To many movies play the safe road, stealing plots that have been used over and over. This plot was totally new to me and i applaud the movie for that. Silverstone was also as cute as ever. I feel that this movie is completely suffice for something to watch when there isn't anything else on.

This is an interesting movie. Let's not sugarcoat the problems of this film; horrible direction, an inexcusable script, and the photography for the film is just plain awful. The lines in this film, although meant to be funny, come across as forced and annoying (the drummer threatens another bandmate by yelling at him to keep quiet before he "opens a can of whoop ass on him!" That line hasn't been funny since kid 'n play had a hit.) but for some odd reason, one which I cant explain, I enjoy watching it. I dont know why (because the movie is poorly made) and I dont know how (it really starts to drag on towards the end), but I always end up watching it when it's on cable. That is the point of this; watch it when it's on cable. To actually spend money to rent it would be absoultely insane. But if you have nothing to watch, why not? right...Alicia Silverstone is sexy as usual (although I still cant figure out why she would agree to this) and the guy from Unforgiven has a nicely understated performance. The drummer is more annoying then hemroids and the other guitarist is kind of mousy but good nontheless, so it makes it bearable to watch. As for Peter O'Toole, we're a long way from Lawrence of Arabia, a looooooooong way....It would be cool to see this film gain cult status, but it would also be cool to win a million bucks. neither will happen...