Village Voice
It's not every day that you get to see two great American traditions - guitar/bass/drums rock music and Tin Pan Alley musical theater - so thoroughly, mutually degraded.
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Rock of Ages
Big city musical based in late ’80s LA, set to the glam rock tunes of Styx, Bon Jovi, Twisted Sister, Poison and more. Includes a lofty line-up of stars: Tom Cruise, Paul Giamatti, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Russell Brand and Alec Baldwin. From the director of Hairspray.
Based on the broadway show, Rock of Ages follows the romance of small town girl Sherrie (Julianne Hough, Footloose) and city boy Drew (Diego Boneta, 90210), who meet in Hollywood while pursuing dreams of stardom. Baldwin is the owner of nightclub The Bourbon Room, Brand is his right-hand man, Cruise is rock god Stacee Jaxx and Zeta-Jones is religious conservative Patricia, who wants to shut down the club.
2012123 minsUSA
ComedyMusical
Rock of Ages / Reviews
Variety
This affectionate glam-rock-a-thon represents 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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Time Out
Fans of Moulin Rouge–esque repurposing will be in hog heaven. Everyone else will want to hop that midnight train going anywhere pronto.
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Hollywood Reporter
Director Shankman succeeds in draining most of the fun from a vehicle that was all about the winking humor of its flagrant cheesiness.
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Box Office Magazine
Director Adam Shankman manages to make this film adaptation of the hit Broadway jukebox musical a red hot summer blast for people who grew up with glam metal—or just can't escape it on the radio.
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