Movie Review 5

School of Rock

(Introduction)
The king of rock is a 2003 comedy film. It was 109 minutes. It was written by Mike White and directed by Richard Linklater. The main character Dewey Finn was stared by Jack Black. Mike White, who was the writer of this film, also appeared as Ned Schneebly in this film. The film has been nominated for several awards. Thank for this film, Black won an MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance.
(Story)
Dewey Finn was a hard rock singer and guitarist. One day, he was fired by his band,” No Vacancy”. His performance was too hard and his action was selfish, therefore his members disliked him. Instead of him, they added a new member.
He was also blamed that he did not pay rent by his flat mate, Ned Schneebly. Ned and his girlfriend always suggested to him that he should work to get money. Ned had also been a rock musician like Dewey, but left his band and began to work as a substitute teacher.
One day, when Ned was absence, Dewey got a call from the principal of Horance Green Elementary. It was a highly prestigious preparatory school and she said that she wanted Ned to work there as a substitute teacher. Then Dewey pretended to be Ned and got job as a substitute teacher for the fifth grade class at that school. Though he became a teacher, he did not any experiences as a teacher.
Of course, he could not teach subjects like math, history and something like that. He gave the student a lots free time instead of classes, but the students were very earnest and got angry with him. When they had music class, he realized their talents of music. They could play the instrument well. That’s why he began to teach them about rock music and made new band as a special project. He chose some students for the band players or singers. Surely, they all could not play the instrument and sing. He gave his all students each role. For example, he left them to be managers and make costumes, a band’s name and so on. He thought students should make their band by themselves. Students had big interest in that project. Some practiced hard for their credits and some just enjoyed it. They began to practice rock music hard and secretly, and sometimes got out of the school. If the project was discovered by other teachers, they had to stop it. He always pretended to lesson another subjects with his students. Their homework was to listen rock music and learn something from them. Students decided to name their band “School of rock” and wear school uniform as their costume. One of student played his original song in front of Dewey. He took on his song as their main song. Their motivation became bigger day by day.
One day, he tried to make them enter the Battle of the Bands. They were late for the entry. They wanted to enter the Battle anyway, so the class president, Summer got an idea. It was that students pretended to be severe sick children. They got the battle manager’s sympathy. That’s why they could entry the Battle.
However, Ned realized that Dewey worked at the school as Ned Schneebly. He was exposed his secret to the principal and children’s parents. After that, he was thrown out of the school. Some students were disappointed at him, but some wanted to keep the rock band and enter the Battle of the Band with him.
They called him and they went to the hall for the Battle of the Band together. The principal and their parents also went there. As soon as they arrived, School of rock’s stage stared. They played “School of Rock”. Audiences including the principal and the parents were crazy about their playing. They played two songs there. Finally, they missed the win because of Dewey’s old member. Audiences were unhappy with the judge, so they kept calling “ School of rock”.
After that, Dewey and Ned kept “School of rock” at their flat. The student went there to learn rock, and kept learning rock music.
(Impression)
To tell the truth, I do not like this movie so much because this story is really simple. I can guess the story from the title. This film was similar to Sister act 2 to me. Though it is 109 minutes’ movie, but I felt it was so long movie. However, I liked Summer Hathaway starring Miranda Cosgrove the best of all characters in this film. I got to like her action. When I watch foreign movies, I watch them in Japanese version, but this time I tried to watch it in English version. I could learn many words from it. I realized that watching movies in English enables me to improve my English listening skill. Next time I watch movies, I will try to watch them in English version.