Rock of Ages
- Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release Date: Jun 15, 2012
- Starring: Alec Baldwin, Bryan Cranston, Diego Boneta, Julianne Hough, Tom Cruise
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- Director: Adam Shankman
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance, Musical
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 42
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Mixed: 17 out of 42
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Negative: 12 out of 42
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Doesn't require anyone to love metal, or even like it. It only requires us to laugh at it - and other exemplars of bloated '80s pop, from Starship to Journey - and it does so with a campy and attitudinous spirit that's hard to resist.
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Seeing Tom Cruise swathed in leather pants and fake tattoos, as Axl Rose-style metal god Stacee Jaxx, is supposedly Rock of Ages' big draw. But the movie is much more fun when he's not around.
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A jukebox musical that's astonishingly cornball one minute, winkingly sardonic the next.
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Absent the infectious live-audience energy of Chris D'Arienzo's legit hit, this affectionate glam-rock-a-thon reps a visually bland staging of frankly insipid material, never tapping into the raucous, go-for-broke energy that would spin the show's cliches into gold, let alone platinum.
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The only edge in the movie is represented by Russell Brand, who actually lived the lifestyle, but he's muzzled by a bad Liverpool accent and a gay subplot that's as insincere as the swaggering anthems by fatuous hacks like Foreigner, Starship and Journey.
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Don't stop believing. Just avoid clichéd musicals that try to capture the anarchic spirit of rock with trite commercial re-treads.
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I haven't seen a movie this bad since "Battlefield Earth" and "Howard the Duck."
Score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 54
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Mixed: 21 out of 54
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Negative: 12 out of 54
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Jun 15, 2012
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Jun 23, 2012I love musicals, stage or movies. I
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Jun 15, 2012
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Jan 5, 2013
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Dec 12, 2012
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Jun 22, 2013If it wasn't for the admittedly solid performance of Tom Cruise as rock star god Stacee Jaxx, I would have argued for the title to be 'Rock Bottom'...
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Jun 19, 2012
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