Rock on in School of Rock

School of Rock

Director: Richard Linklater

Cast: Jack Black, Mike White, Joan Cusack.

Cert: General.

A fun movie which manages to be old-fashioned - off-beat teacher at a snooty college gets the snooty kids into rock 'n' roll and annoys their snooty parents and snooty teachers - as well as charmingly funny and richly entertaining.

It's written by White and it gives Black - the teacher - one of his best roles, that of the slob, Dewey Finn, dumped by his own band, who pretends to be his roommate in order to steal the teaching job at a New York school.

His class turns out to be rather good as music so he moves them away from the classics to the rock, frightening the buttoned-down principal (Cusack) and the parents. You couldn't not like Black's performance or a film which provides so much delightful fun.

Rock on!

Star Rating: 4/5