Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny | 
| Director: Liam Lynch
Actors: Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Jason Reed, Ronnie James Dio, Paul F. Tompkins
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $12.98
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Rating:  78 reviews
Sales Rank: 1841
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), German (Published), Spanish (Published), English (Published)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: TRNDN10698D
UPC: 794043106989
EAN: 0794043106989
ASIN: B000MCH5RM
Theatrical Release Date: November 22, 2006
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
In venice beach naive midwesterner jb bonds with slacker kb & they form the rock band tenacious d. Setting out to become the worlds greatest band is no easy feat so they set out to steal what could be the answer to their prayers - a magical guitar pick housed in a rock-&-roll museum some 300 miles away. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 11/11/2008 Starring: Jack Black Kyle Glass Run time: 93 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com
You don't have to be a munchie-loving stoner or an aspiring rock god to enjoy Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, but it helps. A dozen years after they introduced their mock-rock power duo on the Los Angeles club scene, Jack Black and Kyle Gass finally got the movie showcase (a partial spinoff from the D's short-lived HBO series) their fans had been waiting for, and it's a rockin' romp with plenty of crude laughs that will hit home for anyone who's ever played air guitar to Meat Loaf's "Bat out of Hell." It's a Beavis and Butt-head-like origin story, recalling the legend (ahem) of how JB (Black) and KG (Gass) met, bonded over bong-hits and rock-operatic guitar licks, then set out (on a tip from a crazed guitar-store clerk played by Ben Stiller) to find the mythic pick of destiny, used by all guitar gods and said to be fashioned from the tooth of Satan. Their quest includes a variety of well-cast cameos (including Tim Robbins, Meat Loaf, and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl as Satan himself), and there's plenty of flatulence, drug humor, at least one hilarious fantasy sequence, and outrageous sight gags too numerous to mention. Suffice it to say, it's about 90 minutes of lowbrow indulgence, and some of the jokes fall flat, but if you're a headbanger at heart, you'll know what Tenacious D is riffing on, and the sweet licks (also available on the soundtrack CD) will sound that much sweeter. If you're not ready to RAWK, this potential cult favorite may not be for you... but give it try anyway. It may not be better than Citizen Kane, but if you're properly stoked, it comes close to rock & roll heaven. --Jeff Shannon
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| Customer Reviews: Read 73 more reviews...
 Some Crazy JuJu January 4, 2009
Ken P. Copen (Alameda, CA USA)
They must have put some crazy JuJu into the recording of this movie because I can't stop watching it. I'm not even a fan of the D but I watched this on cable one night, now I can't stop watching Master Exploder (one of the songs) and the "Final Showdown." Sometimes if I'm having a lame day at work I'll watch Master Exploder on Youtube just for a laugh.
Bottom line is I expected this to totally suck and figured I probably wouldn't even get through it and instead got several laugh out loud moments and even scenes that I would consider absolute comedy classics. Very funny cameos from Dio, Ben Stiller, Tim Robbins and an extremely amusing Dave Grohl. Damn Funny.
Buy this movie December 31, 2008
D. Vanderwerf (Morrisville, VT United States)
This is a great movie, buy it! The funniest Jack Black movie I have seen!
 Buy the masterworks vol 1 instead December 28, 2008
Theodore D. Olson (San Diego, CA)
I love the D. I listened to bootlegs of the HBO series and live shows with my old roommate before they released their first CD. The first CD is awesome. The second is the soundtrack to this terrible movie. Jack Black is hilarious in most movies and Tenacious D totally rock in my opinion, but this movie was horrendous.
I must confess I am writing a review of the movie I saw in the theater, not the DVD version (I cannot endure the pain of watching it again). The plot was aimless. The ending was stupid. The jokes fell very flat, even the ones that were retreads.
That is the worst part, most of the almost funny bits were really funny when they did them earlier on the HBO series. So do yourself a favor and buy the masterworks volume 1 DVD which has all of the HBO shows and a live concert with all of their best songs from the first album. They still swear worse than sailors and the jokes are dumb, but they are actually funny dumb, unlike the pick of destiny jokes which are just stupid dumb.
Blew my mind December 11, 2008
Susan Smith (Michigan)
My boyfriend got this movie for $2 at walmart, and I have to say, i rolled my eyes at first because the movie looked stupid to me. But being a fan of Jack Black and because curiosity got the best of me, I watched the movie. And I have to say... well, the movie is in fact stupid, but it is hilarious too. To summarize, I wouldn't pay full price for this movie or anything, but if you can get it cheap, it is a nice funny movie to watch with friends. i'm glad i watched it.
Tenaciously D issapointed July 3, 2008
R. P. Clary (Troy, KS U.S.A.)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This was not worth the money at all. I love rock-n-roll parady like SPINAL TAP, THE SCHOOL OF ROCK and really thought that this would be good and funny, boy was I wrong. It really sucked, way too stupid and way too immature, even for me a 46 yr old teenager. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY. Jack needs to go back to the drawingboard before attempting another one of these.
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