What a movie! I just saw it again for the 8th or so time last night! Rainn Wilson is hilarious in this. From the director of The Full Monty. Unfortunately this movie bombed at the box office if I'm not mistaken but I saw it in the theater and thought it was pretty good. But after seeing it several more times I can safely put it in the Stealing Harvard section of my film enjoyment. Plus how can you go wrong with Will Arnett and Bradley Cooper in a hair metal band?!! Then there's Jane Lynch as Fish's (Rainn Wilson) sister and mother to Matt (Josh Gad). The great Jeff Garlin as her husband and Matt's dad. Ed Helms as their agent and manager who has some great lines as well. And let's not forget the beautiful Christina Applegate as Kim, Curtis's (Teddy Geiger) mother who goes out on the road with the band. The music's not bad either. It helps that Teddy Geiger was actually a musician first and then an actor (and as I see on IMDB that he hasn't done any acting since. Also a young Emma Stone (Superbad, The House Bunny, Zombieland) rounds out the cast. It's a broad comedy in the strictest sense but it has other little things that you see if you've seen it a few times that makes it funnier in a different way. I wish Rainn Wilson made more movies! I wish this made money at the box office! I wish everybody could see this and love it for what it is and for what every movie we see we hope does for us. To take us out of our everyday routines and lives and make us feel something, good or bad through entertainment. I could see it again right now....
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