Review – Rock of Ages

Oh thank the cinema gods that someone made Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for people who remember the 1980s. Or for people who don’t remember the 80s especially well, because I’m pretty sure arena rock ballads weren’t exactly the decade’s musical highlights. Broadway’s affection for excessively dramatic production numbers and paper-thin plots spreads to the big screen. All of the “who told you that you could sing?” celebrities in the cast got what they deserved from the critics. However, I did feel somewhat sorry for Diego Boneta. He plays the male lead, and yet on the DVD box he doesn’t merit any of the nine portrait spots in the grid, losing out to both Paul Giamatti and a monkey. See if desperate