#ROCK OF AGES MOVIE REVIEW CRACKED#

Sherrie's suitcase is stolen, and Drew gets her a job as a waitress at the Bourbon Room.ĭesperate to save the club from a tax debt, the club's owner Dennis Dupree ( Alec Baldwin) and his right-hand man Lonny Barnett ( Russell Brand) book Stacee Jaxx ( Tom Cruise), a detached and self-indulgent rock star preparing for his final gig with his band, Arsenal. Barback Drew Boley ( Diego Boneta) prepares for another night at The Bourbon Room ('Sister Christian/Just Like Paradise/Nothin' But a Good Time'). In 1987 Los Angeles, Sherrie Christian ( Julianne Hough) arrives from Oklahoma with dreams of becoming a singer.

The related film soundtrack also did critically well, debuting at #1 on the Billboard Top Soundtracks chart. However, Cruise was particularly lauded for his performance of ' Pour Some Sugar on Me' and ' Wanted Dead or Alive'. The film received mixed critical reviews and grossed only $59 million worldwide. Originally scheduled to enter production in summer 2009 for a 2011 release, it eventually commenced production in May 2011 and was released on June 15, 2012. Blige, Bryan Cranston and Tom Cruise, the film features the music of many 1980s rock and Glam Metal artists including Def Leppard, Journey, Scorpions, Poison, Foreigner, Guns N' Roses, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, Bon Jovi, Twisted Sister, Whitesnake, REO Speedwagon, and others. Starring Julianne Hough and Diego Boneta in his film debut leading an ensemble cast that includes Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin, Paul Giamatti, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Malin Åkerman, Mary J.

#ROCK OF AGES MOVIE REVIEW CRACKED#

The story, characters and style of the piece run the gamut from the silly to the cartoonish, and even the nonstop pelvic choreography, after a while, is about as erotic as cracked crab.Rock of Ages is a 2012 American jukebox musical comedy film directed by Adam Shankman and based on the rock jukebox Broadway musical Rock of Ages by Chris D'Arienzo. Rock, directed by Kristin Hanggi with book by Chris D’Arienzo, has the good sense not to take itself seriously except when it comes to the music. Most important of all is Lonny ( Patrick Lewallen), who narrates the show with a good feel for the excesses and tongue-in-cheek style that make it amusing. There’s also the club’s longtime owner ( Nick Cordero) an oversexed but under-equipped rock star, Stacee Jaxx ( MiG Ayesa), who seduces Sherrie (not hard to do) in the men’s room a city planner ( Casey Tuma) who leads a revolt a crooked mayor ( Rashad Naylor) on the take and a strip club owner, Justice ( Teresa Stanley), who takes Sherrie on as an exotic dancer. Meanwhile, the club’s future is put in jeopardy by Hertz ( Bret Tuomi), a greedy German real estate developer and his swishy but–not-gay son Franz ( Travis Walker). Drew ( Constantine Maroulis, a Season 4 finalist on American Idol), a shy fellow with big rock aspirations, and Sherrie ( Rebecca Faulkenberry), a not-so-shy small-town girl who wants to be an actress, take a fancy to each other and then make a mess of the budding romance. The silly plot centers on a couple of wannabes who meet at the legendary Bourbon Room, a seedy rock club on the Strip.

Trash is cash, as they say, and Rock is rich. Nostalgia, however, is not necessarily for sissies or children under 14 as Rock has enough sex play, lighthearted raunch and multicolor underwear to stock a retro lingerie boutique twice over. This may not be the decade that lights your fire, but if you’ve secretly been pining for another gander at poofy manes, skin-tight leather duds and a slew of early MTV clichés about finding fame and fortune, love and lust on the Sunset Strip, this is definitely the four-pack wine cooler for you. This Broadway tuner gives us nearly 30 hit songs from the likes of Poison, Bon Jovi, Styx, Twisted Sister, Pat Benatar, REO Speedwagon, Whitesnake, Asia and many more glam metal bands and performers of the decade. No, not the flower-child, love-rock musical of the 1960s, but the ‘80s-set jukebox version Rock of Ages that features big hair, big dreams, big egos (always in fashion) and making it big in Hollywood.Īs a general rule, the only form of nostalgia more potent than a jukebox is a jukebox musical, and Rock is no exception.

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