Movies with a fuck ton of songs but is NOT a musical
Musicals are when characters sing to advance the story. This is not that. This is music everywhere because the world is loud: rehearsals, performances, dance floors, stages, garages. You’ll leave with songs stuck in your head without ever watching a “musical number”.
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Jack Black weaponizes rock music to teach kids confidence. It’s loud, joyful, and weirdly wholesome.
Official synopsis
Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his straight-A students the finer points of rock 'n' roll and the power of sticking it to the man. But as the school’s stern principal closes in and the Battle of the Bands looms, Dewey risks everything to prove that rock 'n' roll can change lives.