LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

TxMike Thanks to Netflix streaming I was able to view this early Zellweger movie, made just a couple of years before she started to get roles that gave her more notice in the movie business.Set in the 1950s and spoofing afternoon TV dance shows like American Bandstand, Renée Zellweger is Susan, a 17-yr-old high schooler. In her own room she enjoys Rock and Roll and the opening scene has her dancing energetically, hopping all over her bed, pretending to sing. Out of sight she and two of her friends are forming their own Rock and Roll band. She plays piano and sings (but her singing is dubbed by someone else).Howie Mandel is Danny Klay, the Dick Clark surrogate, and he MCs the TV dance show. He eventually meets the young wannabees and takes a liking to them and helps publicize their musical endeavors. One of the boys is Max Perlich (good in 'Beautiful Girls') as Tony.Most of the theme here is the 1950s divide between parents and kids. The kids want to dance Rock and Roll, they want to invite and enjoy black singing groups, but the parents believe that is all evil.There is a large kernel of truth in all that but this movie is done in a very exaggerated style more for laughs than for hard-hitting social statements.After they teens briefly open a former restaurant as a spot for teens to play music and dance, one of the uppity moms gets a noise nuisance order to close them down. But Danny Klay holds a mock trial on his show, inviting people to call in, Rock and Roll, is it innocent or guilty? The resolution is less than satisfactory but the movie is entertaining enough and I enjoyed seeing Zellweger in a very early role, filmed when she was about 24.

Jeff Reding (vidmagmedia) Not a great film, not a terrible film but it IS a prequel to the great Rock 'n' Roll High School starring The Ramones. Andy Warhol alum Mary Woranov plays E. Joyce Togar, reprising her roll in the earlier film. PJ Soles and Dey Young play their own mums. At least we find out why Miss Togar hates rock and roll as much as she does. Both films were directed by Allan Arkush, though this one was made for the short-lived 1994 television series 'Rebel Highway'. At least it's fun but unfortunately, though the potential was there, not nearly as good or funny as Rock 'n' Roll High School. It was never billed as a prequel to the Ramones' film, or maybe it might have been noticed more than it ultimately was. If I hadn't already been a fan of RNRHS I never would have known the connections.

CriticalMess This is a hard film to summarise correctly. How does one summon up the necessary amount of vile and invective to describe this criminal, execrable, cheesy awfulness? This is a film (and I use the term loosely) that Renee Zellweger should use her considerable funds to hunt down and destroy as humanely as possible, for the greater glory of humanity. Awful, banal, trite, empty, useless, clichéd, mindless dross. The ending of the film, where 'rock n' roll' is put on trial, made me want to stab my eyes out and rip my ears off.It is THAT bad.Of course it's easy to criticize. Very easy in this case.Please don't be taken in by other reviewers attempts to pretend that this is light hearted fun. They are emissaries of darkness.You have been warned...

helpless_dancer From the opening beat I fell in love with SR&R. A delightful little spoof on the teen years in the 50's complete with a Murray the K style announcer, a downtrodden teen queen and her garage band, 4 hysterical busybodies intent on saving the world from the evils of music [who were hysterically funny], a way too old motorcycle "Fonzie", and lots of singing and dancing. A fun movie not to be taken one bit seriously nor making a statement of any kind.