Rock of Ages

    Rock of Ages
    2012

    Synopsis

    A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.

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    Cast

    • Julianne HoughSherrie Christian
    • Diego BonetaDrew Boley
    • Alec BaldwinDennis Dupree
    • Russell BrandLonny Barnett
    • Malin ÅkermanConstance Sack
    • Paul GiamattiPaul Gill
    • Bryan CranstonMayor Mike Whitmore
    • Catherine Zeta-JonesPatricia Whitmore
    • Mary J. BligeJustice
    • Erica FreneBeth

    Recommendations

    • 70

      Boxoffice Magazine

      Blending a perfect brew of classic '80s songs, big laughs and rockin' performances, director Adam Shankman manages to make this film adaptation of the hit Broadway jukebox musical a red hot summer blast for people who grew up with glam metal - or just can't escape it on the radio.
    • 67

      Tampa Bay Times

      Rock of Ages is nothing but a good time and sometimes less, slogging through the knee-deep hoopla of 1980s nostalgia at a jukebox pace.
    • 60

      Time Out

      Fans of Moulin Rouge–esque repurposing will be in hog heaven. Everyone else will want to hop that midnight train going anywhere pronto.
    • 50

      Variety

      Absent the infectious live-audience energy of Chris D'Arienzo's legit hit, this affectionate glam-rock-a-thon reps a visually bland staging of frankly insipid material, never tapping into the raucous, go-for-broke energy that would spin the show's cliches into gold, let alone platinum.
    • 50

      Arizona Republic

      Shankman gets enormously entertaining performances from Tom Cruise and Alec Baldwin, so much so that it's a problem: The movie's not about them.
    • 50

      Entertainment Weekly

      Most of the numbers in Rock of Ages are flatly shot and choreographed, and they look as if they'd been edited together with a meat cleaver. With rare exceptions, they don't channel the excitement of the music - they stultify it.
    • 40

      The Hollywood Reporter

      He (Shankman) succeeds in draining most of the fun from a vehicle that was all about the winking humor of its flagrant cheesiness.
    • 30

      Village Voice

      A cinematic event. It's not every day, after all, that you get to see two great American traditions - guitar/bass/drums rock music and Tin Pan Alley musical theater - so thoroughly, mutually degraded.

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