Set in 1980s Los Angeles, we see Sherrie Christian (Julianne Hough) try to make it in the city of angels. Set in For this to survive in the cinema, it needed the large ensemble cast for it to survive, and it needed the big stars to save it from being a completely bland and lacklustre attempt at a stage to screen movie, because it is all of the above, with very little shining moments in between. вЂ¦ ExpandДЇor this to survive in the cinema, it needed the large ensemble cast for it to survive, and it needed the big stars to save it from being a completely bland and lacklustre attempt at a stage to screen movie, because it is all of the above, with very little shining moments in between. So if you're going to go, don't expect to take it seriously, cuz it is ridiculous & funny. It reminds me of a mix of Rocky Horror PIcture Show (naughtiness and ridiculousness) and Footloose (joyfulness from music and dancing). Not to say that folks younger and older than that won't, but I think that age range is the target audience. I think that folks who are/have been into rock & roll and are between 40 and 65 now will get the biggest kick out of it. The music is rock and roll and largely from the 80s.

I have not seen the Broadway version, so I can't compare the movie to that, but I gotta say it was a HOOT. I think that folks who are/have been Just came from seeing Rock of Ages with Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand and many more. He's funny.Just came from seeing Rock of Ages with Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand and many more. On film or on-stage it might be easy to get wrapped up in the spectacle, but on record, the candied affectations are too much to bear. But that's who Rock of Ages is for: the legions who want to pretend to rock, who laugh at the excesses of the past because they're loathe to engage with the present.

And that's kind of what squeaky clean Julianne Hough does here - she pretends sheвЂ™s a rocker but never can disguise that she'd recoil in horror if a Tommy Lee crossed her path, let alone a Mick Mars. Now that the glory days of MГ¶tley CrГјe, Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi, and Poison are firmly in the past - and thereby no longer carry any sense of sexual danger - it's totally fine to drape a feather boa around your neck, darken your eyes, harden your heart, and sing along with the songs you know by heart. sleaze variety celebrated here, matters not because Rock of Ages is not for rock & rollers, it's for any number of musical theater geeks who like to dress up and play pretend. That Tom Cruise has never, ever seemed to connect with rock & roll, particularly of the gutbucket L.A. A silver screen adaptation of a Broadway show that turned MTV metal into a musical, the original soundtrack to Rock of Ages canвЂ™t help but feel like a faded photocopy, but somebody has taken great care to dress those smeared, blurry images in glitter and highlights, the sparkle deriving from a star-studded cast fronted by Tom Cruise.

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