Rock School

Name: Rock School
Genre: Action, Documentary, Music
Released: 2005-02-27
Rating: 6.3

ActionDocumentaryMusic1h 33m

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81%

Tomatometer

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64%

Popcornmeter

6.3

TMDB

Storyline

It is about a music school in Philadelphia, The Paul Green School of Rock Music, run by Paul Green that teaches kids ages 9 to 17 how to play rock music and be rock stars. Paul Green teaches his students how to play music such as Black Sabbath and Frank Zappa better than anyone expects them to by using a unique style of teaching that includes getting very angry and acting childish.

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Details

DirectorDon Argott

ReleasedFeb 27, 2005

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Budget

Not disclosed

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guideRUS

Studios

9.14 PicturesA%26E IndieFilms

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

4 fresh · 3 rotten

Critics consensus

“Boasting an entertaining and eccentric cast of characters, Rock School lives up to its name.”

81% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Stella Papamichael

RTBBC.comAug 23, 2005

It's like Spinal Tap, only shorter.

Geoff Pevere

RTToronto StarJul 8, 2005

So overpowering is Green's outsized, needy, arrested-adolescent personality (while you initially suspect he's playing for the camera, the blas attitude of his students suggests he really is like this), it throws the movie off-balance.

Liam Lacey

RTGlobe and MailJul 8, 2005

Their playing is terrific, but there's little doubt the kids are fulfilling Green's fantasy rather than the other way around.

Paul Dale

RTThe ListApr 26, 2019

Filmed verité-style, Argott's film can hardly lay claim to the greatness its subjects clearly aspire to. Most of the time it comes across as a kind of amateur version of The Bad News Bears.