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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 16, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Rainn Wilson & Christina Applegate | |
Performer: | Jeff Garlin, Teddy Geiger, Emma Stone, Josh Gad, Jane Lynch, Jason Sudeikis, Howard Hesseman, Bradley Cooper, Lonny Ross, Will Arnett & Fred Armisen | |
Directed by | Peter Cattaneo | |
Edited by | George Folsey, Jr. | |
Screenwriting by | Maya Forbes | |
Composition by | Chad Fischer | |
Story by | Ryan Jaffe | |
Produced by | Shawn Levy & Tom McNulty |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/6 --
As a movie, it may not rock, but it rolls along nicely enough.
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Time Out
Rating: B+ --
A whacked-out, superannuated, would-be rock star might seem to be too easy a comic target, but Wilson gives this sad sack so many fresh twists that he never wears out his welcome.
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Christian Science Monitor
Rating: 2.5/4 --
...an agreeable, sporadically hilarious comedy that benefits substantially from the almost uniformly strong performances.
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Reel Film Reviews
The film is untidy, cheery, sometimes amiable. If only it were funny too.
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Financial Times
Rating: 2/5 --
All premise and no purpose.
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DVDTalk.com
It should be a fun ride but the dialogue and plot are too predictable and Wilson has no fun with the old-fogey role.
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The National (UAE)
Rating: 3/5 --
The Rocker is more Keane than Keith Moon: slow, safe and about as edgy as a tangerine.
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TheShiznit.co.uk
Product Description:
Slovenly drummer Robert "Fish" Fishman (THE OFFICE's Rainn Wilson) is booted out of his 1980s hair metal band, Vesuvius, right as they're signed to a big label, crushing his dreams and leading to a 20-year stretch of office park employment. A second chance comes in the form of his overweight teenage keyboardist nephew (Josh Gad) who needs an emergency drummer for his band's gig at the prom. It's an odd match--an '80s metal guy in a teen emo-lite band (their name is A.D.D.)--but he's soon offering fatherly counsel to fatherless boy singer Curtis (Teddy Geiger), giving hair gel tips to the foxy bassist (Emma Stone), and working to get the band a club gig. Soon A.D.D. is signed to the same label as Vesuvius, poised for major MTV-stardom, all leading to a big arena spot as the opening band for the dreaded Vesuvius. Fish needs to overcome his tantrum-throwing ways and step up to the kit, if he wants to impress Curtis's hot mom (Christina Applegate) and outrock his former colleagues. A cross between rock star fantasia à la SCHOOL OF ROCK and the Will Ferrell School of man-child comedy, THE ROCKER benefits from tight editing and pretty decent songs. Real-life musician Geiger saves some rough stretches with his easygoing charisma, while Peter Best (the drummer dropped from the Beatles and hence the quintessential "dumped drummer") makes a cameo. It's directed by Peter Cattaneo of THE FULL MONTY
Description by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:
Twenty years after being kicked out of his nearly famous '80s hair band, Robert "Fish" Fishman (Wilson) finds himself trapped in a dead-end office job and living with his sister's family. But when opportunity rocks, Fish gets a hilarious second chance at stardom, and without missing a beat, the desperate drummer vows to reclaim the rock-god throne he always thought he deserved!
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Product Info
- UPC: 024543572916
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