Movies like this tend to lack smoothness and wittiness - so does Rock of Ages where the plot is a mixture of this and that, with lots of clichés and patterns with 1970/1980ies cult movies such as Grease and Dirty Dancing. But the music is great and mass concert scenes are skillfully produced and performed - a real fun and joy, unless you dislike the music of that kind and that era. As for the cast, then the older the character and the actor/actress, the better, i.e. more catchy and versatile; the youngest stars of the movie - Julianne Hough as Sherrie Christian and Diego Boneta as Drew Boley - were least credible to me, but the older ones, especially Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx, Alec Baldwin as Dennis Dupree, Russell Brand as Lonny Barnett, Paul Giamatti as Paul Gill, and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Patricia Whitmore were really pleasant to follow. I am confident they squeezed everything possible and impossible out from the mediocre script.
Recommended nostalgia "slap" to all whose teen or 20+ years were filled by (pop)-rock.
Recommended nostalgia "slap" to all whose teen or 20+ years were filled by (pop)-rock.