Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' roll. The school's hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of Finn's activities. But Finn's roommate remains in the dark about what he's doing.
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A private user reviewed School of Rock (2003)
School Of Rock Forever
Making this my first movie review, I just want to say that I chose School of Rock specifically as my first movie review as I believed since I was a kid had a huge message that associates with kids and adults. I watch this movie since I was around Kindergarten where I was a huge fan of rock music thanks to the exposure of the video game series Guitar Hero. I considered this movie "Guitar Hero: The Movie" since it associated with rock elements along with movie centering around playing on stage just like the video game. Years later, I kept enjoying day by day as it actually has a stronger meaning in the movie that it felt it deserved the rating that I gave no matter how many times I watch it, but why is that??? I'll be going over the plot and tell you how I feel about some key moments that really struck out.
After Dewey Finn attempted a failed stage dive, Ned and Patty were basically looking at Dewey like he's actually washed up considering he couldn't take any responsibility on the share of rent. Things get worst as he was replaced by his own band members considering that they want to win the "Battle of the Bands" really badly. The beginning opens up on who Dewey actually is that made you wonder how he was going to make comeback by building a relationship with Ned and Patty, and show his bandmates who they actually missing out which is very interesting to see two problems in the first 20 minutes.
When Dewey pretended that he was Mr. Schneebly, this open up to the start of his character development where we learning about how he's going to impersonate as a teacher, and what it'll bring for his own benefit. Throughout the movie, I really enjoyed how Dewey slowly becomes connected with all the students that leaded him to change and show some responsibility between Principal Mullins, and the students themselves. Even though this movie is considered a comedy, there's some deep roots where we can actually analyze how it took three weeks for Dewey to motivate the kids from being insecure students, to "Sticking it to the man" indicating that they can stand up for what they believed in the most.
Lawrence was a kid who thought wasn't cool enough to be on stage, but Dewey knew that he's a talented kid on the piano to make him look like a badass on stage. Zach had to deal with his father who doesn't approved rock music wherever he goes, Dewey had to set up a lesson for him to basically "step off" to become confident and fight for what he believe for. Tamika was insecure about her being overweight and even had to talk in private showing that she's very timid in the beginning. Dewey once again helped her confident that she's the party inside her, and her body size is the least important thing the audience cares about. Dewey also had to assigned roles with several different personalities and council them to be together into making this project a masterpiece.
One thing many people may not seen from Dewey in which it took me years to found out was that he's actually good at something compare what his band members, Ned, and Patty don't see him throughout the entire film (Literally until the final performance). Mullins also sawed something from him where he basically built a relationship indicating that she actually had a soft spot for classic rock, and what's even better was that she literally went to the concert with all the parents to see them rock out all in one. After Dewey was caught, the students reflect back on who he actually is, and they realized how he wasn't really a bad person and more of a motivator that unlocked all there talents into one cohesive project, and they all seemed to enjoy it without knowing that Dewey was gone.
When they all performed and realized they lost, Dewey wasn't really happy since he knows that he's considered a failure once again, even though the kids are still proud of for what he did. The ending was amazing because everybody knew what School of Rock was actually about, and how much it means to the kids after performing "Zack's Song". Dewey was even amazed that Mullins enjoyed it show how nervous he was, and how he was actually the least motivated out of everybody who was about to perform. I feel like Dewey didn't want to get caught again, but he decided it to perform one last time with the kids to wrap up the project that he set up with.
To conclude with this review, Dewey actually shared a valuable lesson for his students to helped gain there talents and confidence where it's something that they're going to keep in there heads forever, and what's even better is that he won the parents, Ned, and his project even though he didn't won. He realized when everybody chanted there band, he knew that he won there hearts and perform the encore, and that's what made it as one of my favorite movies.
Rating: 9/10
Watch this movie whenever you're feeling down, as an adult now, I actually feel like I can pull myself up into doing something I love, and share with the younger generation to lead them to become rockstars. Thanks for reading my first movie review :)
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