The Rocker Reviews

Honestly, I wasn’t really dying to watch this flick but since I had the dvd for ages (seriously, I think I bought it something like 2 years ago at least…), I thought it was finally time to watch the damned thing. Well, it wasn’t really good, I’m afraid. I mean, Rainn Wilson can be pretty funny and it was a nice to see him playing the lead for once but that wasn’t the right vehicle for him. Eventually, the funniest thing was actually to see Emma Stone and Bradley Cooper just a year before they really broke through (respectively, Emma Stone in ‘Zombieland’ and Bradley Cooper in ‘The Hangover’, even though you could say that Emma Stone already made a splash with her debut ‘Superbad’). The main issue was that the whole concept was not really interesting and they played it just way too straightforward. There were also way too many little weak sub-plots like the fact that Rainn Wilson seems to be in physical pain because of the concerts, or his relationship with Christina Applegate which really underdeveloped or the background of the other band members. To conclude, even though it wasn’t really bad, it was still pretty average and I don’t think it is really worth a look.