"Rock of Ages" by Adam Shankman - movie review

"Rock of Ages" is another absolutely unnecessary Hollywood poem, which, fortunately. In years of total conceptual and scenarios weakness, the producers in Hollywood desperate attempts. Apparently after the commercial success of "Mama Mia" before 10 years, some people have come to think of how to take another dollar of this genre. Particularly in view of the fact that in recent years the musical reality shows in the United States are particularly strong, and other singing series that play on the thin string of nostalgia and remind us of old golden hits from the recent past. This is the idea to bring to the big screen a stage show that aims to entertain tourists with classic rock hits of the 80s,. Clearly, Hollywood producers have decided that these millions of fans are their potential audience.

I personally am a big fan of classic 80 rock and i am always happy when a hit of this era sounds in a movie. The use of these hits to this day shows the wide cultural impact of 80s music. "Rock of Ages", however, definitely does nothing to pay tribute to classic rock songs, but rather to ruin them. The story, as far as it is concerned, is to the pain of the familiar impoverishment of an American farmer who is contributing to Hollywood to look for luck as a singer. But at the start, her illusions have been hurriedly shattered, because thieves are picking up her little belongings. The local frontman of ethnic originр who, unfortunately, has to work as a bartender is running for help because fate does not smile to anyone who wants to bathe in the spotlight. The two of them bang side by side in a cult bar with severe financial problems, whose owner is an old rocker with latent inversions. The super-irritating Russell Brand and the eternal comic relief is unsuccessful here, but his chances of reaching Stanley Tucci's class are as big as my vocals as Luciano Pavarotti.

The main attraction of the film must be Mr. Tom Cruise, which is itself bigger than life, so he hardly had any particular problems playing a megastar that has lost herself somewhere along the track of glory and the only thing she it is left to bathe in an ocean of naked chicks and alcohol. Cruise has already proven that he can be made to a totally unrecognizable comedian. His appearance there as the relentless producer Les Grosman was definitely the most memorable of Ben Stiller's film. Ironically or not, but here Cruise is undoubtedly overtaken by another great actor who plays the role of an unscrupulous and oily producer who is ready for everything for more actors. It's about Paul Jamaat, who continues his string of cult supporting roles and is definitely one of the few quality things in Rock of Ages. The production broadly outlined how the actors performed the famous songs themselves. Better not to have done it because most performances are pretty bad. Not to mention that, in my personal opinion, Tom Cruise is far from singing 2 of his songs alone.

The director Adam Shankman made some success with a somewhat cute and colorful "Hairspray" which was also a musical, but at least it was clear beforehand that it was a lightweight cartoon story. There, too, it was all about a girl who wanted to break into the show business. Only the plump Nicky Blonski has tons of more charisma and screen shots from the new peristyle Julian Haw. And Shankman's problem is that it suits everything as the next comedy about family use, which definitely does not work in combination with the classics of rock music. The film's producers had an easy and obvious (apparently not a) move that could really get rock fans into cinemas and bring more movies for the movie. Including more than real performers (most of them are still alive and healthy) in the film, and to reduce the actors' singing strains to the bearable minimum. I am convinced that the high fee was hardly an obstacle, because most of these once (and still) great groups are currently not megastars compared to a number of terrible pop artists.

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