Saul is wor­king in his store when he hears a boo­ming voice from above: “Saul, sell your busi­ness.“
He igno­res it. It goes on for days. “Saul, sell your busi­ness for $3 million.” So he sells his store. The voice says “Saul, take the $3 million to Las Vegas.” He obeys, goes to a casino.

The Voice says, “Saul , go to the black­jack table and put it down all on one hand.” He hesi­ta­tes but knows he must. He’s dealt an 18. The dea­ler has a six sho­wing.
“Saul, take a card.”
“What? The dea­ler has –”
“Take a card!“
He tells the dea­ler to hit him. Saul gets an ace. Nine­teen. He breathes easy.
“Saul, take another card.”
“What?!?”
“TAKE ANOTHER CARD!“
He asks for another card. It’s another ace. He has twenty.
“Saul, take another card,” the voice com­mands.
“I have twenty!” Saul shouts.
“TAKE ANOTHER CARD!!” booms the voice.
“Hit me”,Saul says sha­kily.
He gets another ace. Twenty one.
The boo­ming voice goes: “Un-fucking-believable!”

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I watched this with my neigh­bour a few weeks ago. I know it is meant to be a sort of kids film with a pretty basic plot, I went in kno­wing this. That said, I figu­red I would out­line my plot pre­dic­tion for the movie when it star­ted, to my horror my pre­dic­tion was spot on, everything I had said held true. I know this is meant to be a kids movie, but that’s not gonna stop me rip­ping the shit out of it.

I should state that if I can see how the wri­ters are struc­tu­ring the next comedy ele­ment, I’m not going to laugh. It is the equi­va­lent of them telling me “We are going to make you laugh in a moment, and here is how…”. The film was ridd­led with pre­dic­ta­ble jokes and humor ele­ments. This movie was far too pre­dic­ta­ble, it was a rehashed Sis­ter Act 2 for­mula minus the good heart, the enter­tai­ning kids and the comic genius of Whoopi Gold­berg. It’s not as if they went so far as to pro­vide an inte­res­ting cha­rac­ter. They are all gene­ric ste­reoty­pi­cal children/teachers/house mates/parents, the prissy know it all girl, the oppres­sive father, the wuss boy­friend and his hyped up mega bitch girl­friend. Each one anno­ying in their own uno­ri­gi­nal uni­que way.

Jack Black, who I have only really ever liked in High Fide­lity, was a mas­sive disap­point­ment as per usual — his no brai­ned antics were not only anno­ying but also com­ple­tely ridi­cu­lous. The notion that teaching a group of well edu­ca­ted do-gooder kids how to per­form in a rock con­cert in sec­ret within a limi­ted time period is absurd in itself. These kids would recog­nise him as the flunky he his and report him, it is insul­ting to inte­lli­gent kids everywhere that these top level child pro­te­ges fall for this hook line and sin­ker. And even if they couldn’t, the prin­ci­pal would have chec­ked up on this ‘dodgy new­co­mer’ more often, cross refe­ren­ced him and asked for a photo id. Other­wise it’s slightly scary that any pae­dophile could get a job like that and start enjo­ying his free time with fee paying little girls.. The irony of this idio­tic waste of a human being surroun­ded by these 140 IQ ave­rage kids is stu­pen­dous and calls for Office like comedy, it is crin­ge­worthy and requi­res the influence of Ricky Ger­vais for comedy effect. But the fact that all these chil­dren are taking this man seriously just sic­kens me. To add insult to injury, if you’re in a band that is con­sis­tantly trying to make it, trying to break free from the local scene and at least get a follo­wing; this movie is an insult to all things you have tried. It sug­gests that it is easy to make music peo­ple enjoy, it is easy to get a sell out gig and it is easy to get a crowd chee­ring your name (which, con­si­de­ring the crowd that would be pre­sent at a local battle of the bands, would be unli­kely). It angers me to see decent bands strug­gle and this atro­cious movie laugh at them in their ignorance

I’m all for a good kids movie, but when the morals it teaches and the cha­rac­ters it por­trays are lac­king and the les­sons to be taught are all ‘phony’ ones, I don’t. I love my rock music but I can’t stand all that rock-save-the-world all that mat­ters is rock piss-ass atti­tude towards it. STICK IT TO THE MAN.