Rock School DVD > Reviews > IT'S LIKE WATCHING A NEVERENDING AD

Author's product rating:   

Did you enjoy it?	Indifferent to it
Story	Very weak

Advantages:	entertaining
Disadvantages:	not educational, not suitable for children as swear words are constantly used, very promotional

Recommend to potential buyers:

no

Full review

I gave this a try because I'm a member of a DVD rental service and my DVD list was getting short. Let me tell you, it wasn't worth it.

What is Rock School about:
Basically, about a school, where teachers teach 9 to 17-year-olds how to play the guitar, sing and hopefully become a rock star and make Paul Green (the owner of the school) rich. Now, I would say that's a story that could be told in 15 minutes. So what's there to say in another 1 hour and 15 minutes? The answer is: nothing.

When you watch Rock School, it's like you watch a neverending ad. The kids are kinda cute and talk about how Paul Green and the Rock School changed their lives, how much Paul Green challenges them, how much they like Paul Green, how much Paul Green has already taught them, etc. And that's happening in between Paul Green screeming and swearing at the kids - and I mean he really uses bad language (because he can't get his head straight around the camera - as he admits).

You see the kids performing but the scenes are so short that you can neither hear them sing, nor play, and then there's Paul Green again talking about how much he likes teaching kids and that his school is the best in Europe.

Truly, this documentary looks like a real-life copy of movie School of Rock , only it's extremely boring, repetitive and not cute at all. And I have never seen a more obvious promotional campaign in my life.

The sound and picture quality are not great. In fact, they're really bad. There's no extras. However, you have subtitles, if that helps.

As much as I tried to like this documentary, it's impossible. Paul Green is not the saviour of proper rock, as he likes to describe himself. He may be a decent musician, who couldn't make it, but that's not a reason to use these kids to raise his own profile.