Import Week: the lost film reviews- anything with Jack Black

Another couple of 'gems' from the lost reviews.  I have an unreasonable dislike of Jack Black's films.  I'm sure he's a grand chap in real life, but on screen he's up there with Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler as things that make me go eeeugh.  Marsh quite like him, so these are revirews of movies seen through LoveFilm.  Pretty soon after that I stopped her ordering any new titles and deleted all her suggestions. 

As before I've decided not to edit the content.

Be Kind Rewind (dir: Michel Gondry, 2008)
(**1/2)

Everything I usually say about Jack Black applies, however the mere fact that he didn't completely hijack the plot made it watchable. The highlights were definately the 'sweeded' films themselves. I'm sure if I watched a shorter, pithier, sweeded version of this it would earn an extra half a star. I know, I'm too generous.

Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (dir: Liam Lynch, 2006)

Sadly half a star is the lowest rating possible.

This film is up there with Pearl Harbor in terms of hours of my life I will not get back, and with Pretty Woman as one of the movies I have foolishly allowed myself to see because a girl wanted me to.

Yet another instance of self indulgent twaddle from Jack Black: you will never be a rock god, not even an ironic one, and stop sullying the music of The Who with your cheese-ridden gyrations and wailings. The high point of their lyrical dexterity was rhyming rock with cock.

Enough.