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Cyrus Reviews "The Rocker"
Does every new comedian working today have to enter the cinematic field through the grueling mediocrity of the manchild movie with their interminable slapstick, rise-fall-rise again patterns? It's so old now that even when there is funny material to be had, it loses it’s luster by the sheer gall of having to sit through the same damn thing again. Remember that Will Ferrell plot machine website? When we all knew these movies had jumped the shark? That came out, like, two years ago. No one must have told Rainn Wilson. He’s shamelessly milking a dry teat with every bit of ‘What, you must have forgotten about School of Rock by now’ that he can with "The Rocker".
Rainn is Robert “Fish” Fishman, a drummer that used to play for the 80’s heavy metal band Vesuvius. On the verge of stardom, he was fired from the band because the head of the label they were signing to wanted his nephew to play with them instead. 20 years later, Vesuvius is Metallica huge, and Fish hasn’t played drums since. When he gets fired from his job, he goes to live with his sister (Jane Lynch) and her family. Unwilling to grow up, he lives in their attic for a little while until his nephew Matt (Josh Gad) and his band mates, Curtis (Teddy Geiger) and Amelia (Emma Stone) need a last minute fill-in drummer so they can play the prom at their high school. This, as you undoubtedly predict, does not go well. Still, Fish is an annoying manchild character who solves all problems by refusing to acknowledge anyone else's negative reactions to his behavior and eventually he talks the kids into giving him another chance. They practice over the internet using webcams, a technology the elder luddite Fish doesn't really understand and it leads to a video of him playing the drums naked with them being leaked to YouTube. Oh, the hilarity. Almost instantly, they’re on their way to becoming superstars, which is what happens the moment you put something on the internet that is funny. I should know. (Leave me alone, groupies, no time for oral sex now, your master is writing a movie review). Of course, even success isn’t easy and Rainn’s ‘rock star’ antics, upset the kids parents. That and a scheming record company exec right out of "Wayne's World" (but not in a good way) drives the film to...exactly the places you’d expect.
I suppose this idea could have had some merit to it, if they had played it a bit more straight, a bit less stupid. Apparently, it was even based loosely on a real story that happened to the head writer combined with the tale of poor Pete Best from The Beatles who even has a small cameo in the film. With a sympathetic and likable take on "Fish" Wilson might have made it work and created a fun and original take on this sort of story. Instead, we get this same-old, same-old, and not even close to as funny as the movies it's ripping off. I thinkRainn Wilson is a very talented comedy actor and could certainly headline a comedy film but he’s not Will Ferrell and no one should try to cram Will Ferrell's rejected story lines down Wilson’s career. One Will Ferrell is MORE than enough at this point.
I wish I could tell you how the extras were, but here's the thing: Fox doesn't like internet critics. Doesn't now, never has. There are a number of ways they've made this clear to us, but my least favorite has to be the 'white coaster' disks they send us to review their movies. Most critics, hell, almost all of them, make next to no if no money at all for reviewing films. Fox still doesn't want them to have the final product, I guess because they don't want them reselling them or something, so they send out these no frills, pop-up logo-ing, single disk, encoded with copy protection to the point that they only work half the time, copies of their movies. I was honestly shocked when my DVD player agreed to play "The Rocker". Needless to say, if there were any extras that ship with the movie, they weren't on my version.
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Comment by The JP on February 3, 2009 at 6:06pm -
I didn't expect anything of it so I was satisfied. Didn't make me laugh much, but it was nice.
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Comment by SecretServiceDentist on February 1, 2009 at 3:56pm -
I hope Rainn Wilson doesn't let the Office go to his head. You've really got to be more than a single character to be a good comedian. Sure, there's popularity, but you gotta strive for more than that.
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Comment by DeathMetalMike on January 31, 2009 at 11:10pm -
damn ... I reaaaaally wanted this to be good, partially because I love Rainn Wilson and because that song, "Promised Land" they put into "Rock Band" is AWESOME :D:D:D
oh well, guess I'll go watch "The Office" now...
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Comment by Saithus on January 31, 2009 at 8:42pm -
Loved the review, I think Rainn Wilson can headline a comedy also. But I truly do think they just gave him a script and he knew it was shit... but if you can star in your own Hollywood film in today's economic times... then I'll do any piece of shit myself. Lets hope his next movie is better.
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Comment by bacon bits69 on January 31, 2009 at 7:29pm -
i never saw rain wilson as a will ferrel rip off but more like a rejected jack black script.
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Comment by mR.nObOdY on January 31, 2009 at 11:52am -
it looks stupid
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Comment by Zack on January 31, 2009 at 7:54am -
It's too bad that Rainn Wilson was in such a shitty movie, cause I know he could do better.
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Comment by Pretty in Plague on January 30, 2009 at 11:10pm -
Glad I didn't see this, it didn't look like anything special. Just a couple of cheap chuckles through a mediocre plot.
lol at Fox. They obviously are well aware of how their movies usually fail to an epic level.
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Comment by Eugene on January 30, 2009 at 4:17pm -
I rented this from netflix and there weren't any special features as well Cyrus, I'm assuming that they just weren't included on the DVD. Although it's not like we were missing much.
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Comment by Trent on January 30, 2009 at 2:32pm -
rainn wilson sucks ass out the office....his 5 minutes on juno was just "lemme see how many wierd words i can put into a sentence, and lets see how funny it is to call a girl Mcgruff"
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