Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny

Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny

Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny

If you liked the album and the video-clips of Tenacious D, you'd better pass on "The Pick of Destiny" if you want to keep a good impression of them. Despite the commitment and the sincerity of Jack Black and Kyle Gass, and the apparition of many guest (Tim Robbins, Dave Grohl...), the movie is boring and even quite embarrassing : even Ben Stiller doesn't manage to be funny in it. The musical scenes are quite ugly and the comical ones are so unoriginal and badly played, filmed and edited that they become barely watchable. The video "Tribute" was ten times better than the movie, witch is far to be the best movie in the word, and indeed doesn't even look like it. It even looks like one of the worst, for it seems that every other movies about stupid rockers look like masterpieces compared to this one : "Spinal Taps", " Wayne's World" 1 and 2, or "Beavis and Butt-Head".

How anyone could give this piece of garbage a good rating is a mystery. Don't waste your time. The acting was the worst. Hard to believe anyone would agree to fund a movie like this. A complete waste of time. If you're a fan of childish humor then watch this.

How anyone could give this piece of garbage a good rating is a mystery. Don't waste your time. The acting was the worst. Hard to believe anyone would agree to fund a movie like this.

Being a fan of Jack Black, I was really looking forward to 'Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny'. It starts off with a metal song and a young Tenacious D running off to Hollywood to become a rock star, promising an entertaining film at the least. But things go rapidly downhill ever since Kyle Gass appears on screen. The film loses focus at times and shifts to silly subplots here and there. The soundtrack is great and that's what kept me watching along with Jack Black, who is good while the rest of the cast are annoying. Having watched 'School of Rock' not too long ago, perhaps I was expecting something on that level but to me the humour in 'Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny' did not work and I found most of it irritating.

Tenacious D rock, director Liam Lynch rocks, and the old HBO TV show rocks, so to say that I was looking forward to this film is an understatement. Making Meatloaf JB's father was a stroke of genius, but sadly nothing to do after the beginning his character disappears from the film (except for a lame hallucination). Dio having a cameo was great too sadly the movie can't live up to the admittedly great beginning opting to go the route of lame jokes and an uninspired plot. (roadtrip to find a fabled guitar pick made from Satan's tooth) Tenacious D deserves much better than this. Don't know if I'd even recommend it to die hard fans of the D, as owning the Masterworks collection, the first Cd, and seeing them in concert multiple times, I, myself might fall into that category. This movie definitely didn't rock my (expletive deleted) socks off. My Grade: D+

Jack Black continues his psychopathic obsession with satirizing the great rock stars in this preposterous farce of a movie. He and his partner are Tenacious D, which is the most profane, raucous, drugged, and filthy rock band of all time. If you like this kind of Neanderthal farce filled with all of the sophomoric paraphernalia of rock bands, more power to you. And, if you love drugs and gratuitous profanity of the most juvenile nature, you will love this film. But if you have more things on your mind than which rock star wields the most demonic pick on a guitar, please avoid this film like the bubonic plague or the AIDS virus. The rock gods are fully satirical in their own silly majesty without depending on disgusting and fat boys like Black to characterize them. I guess Black does seem to be converted to a hatred of Satan in the end. But, those creepies and lifeforms with French-fried brains who worship rock and drug paraphernalia shouldn't be expected to appreciate this nuance of salvation through grace. Just say no! There are some nice-looking extras in this film, though. And, Satan really puts on an impressive rock show in this film, unlike the pathetic Tenacious D.

Jack Black is not funny. All he seems able to do is shout a lot and throw in the occasional profanity, sometimes for variety doing it with a contrived, "Deliverance" type drone in his voice. Tenacious D, or Tedious D, has to be one of the most insipid, uninspired and uncreative concepts of all time. Music parodies have been done before and have managed to be both musically sound and entertaining comedies - refer to the Bad News films from the UK, or, even better, the numerous efforts of Christopher Guest and his many friends. If you are somehow entertained by Jack Black's overweight and out of date concepts of what is funny, knock yourself out. But remember this - ever dollar spent on a Jack Black film is a dollar not spent on an actor or film which has talent.

When I first heard that Jack Black and Kyle Gass would make a movie about their band I was freaking out! I love their music and I hoped that this movie would be really funny! Now that I have watched it I can't really say that these hopes weren't satisfied but I think I expected more. The movie is full of Tenacious D's great music and I really loved listening to all of it. There are a lot of great jokes and I just love the story, at least the first bit. I don't like the way the movie ends. The ending is very abrupt and in my opinion they could have extended that a bit more. Overall I think it is a good movie to watch! Everyone who likes rock music should watch it! It'll give you a good laugh!