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Wick's Review
Summary - Really Great 4.5 click to collapse contents
Cute kids turn into real rockers under Jack Black’s masterful tutelage in this classic movie about classic rock. Still funny the third time through, School of Rock charms, tickles and – most importantly – rocks.
In the classic words of The School of Rock’s nutty professor – It’s a toast to those who rock!
Working from writer-costar Mike White’s killer script, Richard Linklater directed Jack Black over the top of cultism and into mainstream popularity as Dewey Finn, rock pedagogue. Flouting W.C. Fields’ admonition to “Never work with children or animals,” Linklater and White juxtapose Black’s bountiful energy with a classroom of emotionally restrained kids to great effect.
The most successful movie of their careers, School of Rock doesn’t strike a false note. This makes Black, White and Linklater into The Man. That they avoided sticking it to themselves in the creation of this perennial treat remains far from a cheap trick.