The Rocker - Born To Rock Special Edition [Digital Copy] | ![The Rocker - Born To Rock Special Edition [Digital Copy]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qPlZR8QVL._SL500_.jpg) | Actors: Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 6186
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Unknown)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.7
MPN: FOXD2257291D
UPC: 024543572916
EAN: 0024543572916
ASIN: B001E95ZHY
Theatrical Release Date: August 20, 2008
Release Date: January 27, 2009
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Product Description
N this rockin mix of physical comedy heart and garage band/power rock/heavy metal music fish trades his paper company desk job for rock n roll fame taking on the rolse of a big sweaty out-of-control - and sometimes naked - drummer who gets a second chance at rock superstardom. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 01/27/2009 Starring: Rainn Wilson Emma Stone Run time: 102 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Peter Cattaneo
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Most star vehicles center on one individual, but The Rocker doubles as a showcase for singer Teddy Geiger and The Office's Rainn Wilson. After his band, Vesuvius, kicks him to the curb, Cleveland drummer Robert "Fish" Fishman (Wilson) spends the next 20 years working in a cubicle and mourning for what might've been, while Vesuvius (Will Arnett, Bradley Cooper, and Fred Armisen) goes on to fame, fortune, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. After Fish loses his job, he moves in with his sister (Jane Lynch) and her husband (Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin). As it turns out, Fish's nephew, Matt (21's Josh Gad), plays keyboards with guitarist Curtis (Geiger) and bassist Amelia (Superbad's Emma Stone). When Fish finds out that ADD needs a stickman to play the senior prom, he offers his services. After a bumpy start, their styles--hair metal and power-pop--start to gel, and they hit the road (SNL's Jason Sudeikis offers hilarious value as their hipster manager). During their first tour, Fish becomes an older brother figure to the fatherless Curtis and a potential love interest for his mother (Christina Applegate). Written by Maya Forbes (The Larry Sanders Show) and Wally Wolodarsky (The Simpsons) and directed by Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty), The Rocker doesn't break the mold for unlikely success stories--think Rock Star or School of Rock--but it's hard not to root for Wilson's sweet slob (and Geiger isn't bad either). --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Loads of fun January 27, 2010
ASEz (Near Baltimore, MD)
Very enjoyable and entertaining! Lots of fun - some language issues for the younger set (not horrible, but use your discretion).
 amazon rocks January 17, 2010
J. Solowey (Indiana)
The Rocker DVD was purchased from Amazon as a Christmas gift. I was willing to give it as a Birthday gift if it didn't arrive on time for Christmas. Much to my delight it arrived early and was available for a surprising and well liked Christmas gift. My son was thrilled with it. After all is that not what Christmas is about, the thrill on a person's face when they open a gift. Thank You.
fun movie November 30, 2009
Kerry Kraft
This is a great movie. Fans of the Office will love Rainn. He does a great job as a middle aged guy who isn't quite ready to work a real job and still has some unfinished business when it comes to playing music -- something I'm sure a lot of people will be able to relate to. I think it does a good job of showing the excitment of putting a band together, when you think anything is possible, even though the fantasy is almost always better than the reality. Funny cameo by Pete Best.
Music is actually pretty good. If the metal songs had been released 20 years ago, they would have been hits. Fun to look back on that stuff now that we don't take it so seriously.
Wilson Was Born To Rock November 9, 2009
D. Mikels (Skunk Holler)
Yes, drummers definitely march to the beat of their own drum (a fitting metaphor). By and large they're anti-authority, eccentric, immature partay animals; but a good drummer can hold a band together like super glue. And into this quirky realm enters Rainn Wilson as Robert Fishman (Fish)--the original drummer of legendary rock band Vesuvius, which summarily dumped him 20 years before as the band was entering its heyday. Fish has a grudge, he detests normal things like. . .working. . .and he never wants to grow up. So when his high school nephew (Josh Gad) appeals to Fish to bail out the nephew's band by playing the drums for the prom, Fish agrees, then readily gets bit by the rock 'n roll bug. Subsequently a sight gag (not pleasant to watch) gets on YouTube, the band (named ADD) gets a following, then a sleazy agent (Jason Sudeikis), then goes on tour--and THE ROCKER takes off as a vehicle for Wilson's irreverent antics.
With a predictable plot and ADD's maddening bubblegum music and lyrics, I still got a hoot watching Wilson dominate scene after scene. This guy really has a knack for physical comedy, and enough facial expressions to form his own area code. He's often over the top, but it's needed to offset his surprisingly stoic and composed fellow band members (Gad, Teddy Geiger, Emma Stone), and a traveling band mom (Christina Applegate is gorgeous). I really got a kick out of Will Arnett and Bradley Cooper playing self-absorbed, perpetually stoned, Vesuvius front men, and it's great to see Howard Hesseman still commanding a pulse. Yet this is Rainn Wilson's baby, and THE ROCKER is grand fun to watch because of it.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning
 same old stuff August 16, 2009
B. E Jackson (Pennsylvania)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Jack Black wasn't very funny this time around... oops, I mean, haha. Jack Black isn't in this one. He's been replaced by some other guy that acts just LIKE him in every single (sometimes annoying) way.
Alright, you probably know what to expect- a bunch of teenagers (and one older man who's the main character) all get together to form a rock band. They start performing at high school proms, get famous, have amazingly insane adventures along the way, and.... that's the main problem with the movie. It was VERY predictable storyline-wise.
Everything that happens in real life to rock bands about how they start drinking heavily, doing drugs, getting chicks, and party the night away happens to the fictional band in this movie. It's nothing new- you KNOW exactly what to expect. It's been done before in other movies (such as that one Jack Black one about the guitar) and it's been done in real life thousands of times across the world.
At least some of the acting was decent, some of the jokes were pretty good, and the story was told nicely with a heavy focus on the fact that the oldest member of the band was 20 years older than the other band members (and how he got kicked out of his previous band 20 years before). Other than that I have nothing else to say about a movie you know by heart without even having to watch it.
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