I’m used to nothing much happening in a Richard Linklater film. I don’t have a problem with that at all, because he usually captures perfectly a moment in time—a transformative juncture that can never be repeated for the people that live it. School of Rock has the genesis of that in its makeup, but it doesn't do anything memorable with it. The music references are great fun to someone like me, but with no weight behind the epiphanies or the supposed life-changing acts of rebellion it falls flat. If Jack Black wasn't there to ignite it then it’d be as lifeless as the institutions it mocks.
2½ minds for moulding out of 5
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