Rock of Ages: Press reviews

'it's rocktastic'

'the sheer performance gusto on display proves thoroughly winning.'

'Disposable, overly long fun best enjoyed with BFFs and a bevvie. Some will win, some will lose, some were born to sing the blues...'

'It will satisfy fans of the still-running show (on a West End stage near you) and irritate the rest.'

'just entertaining enough to keep you from dark thoughts about the state of Hollywood.'

'The whole affair feels riven and unsure, with Shankman—and many of his actors—unable to work out whether they should be spoofing the movie's backlist of nineteen-eighties hits or digging around in the musical mayhem for true emotional meat.'

'Tacky and not terribly original'

'doesn't even qualify as a hairier version of Mamma Mia'

'When something is this off-the-meter, you at least admire the chutzpah.'

'It really does go on for ages.'

'Alas, its feel-good potency as a stage entertainment has been utterly squashed in its transfer to film, where it lumbers and flails and outstays its welcome by at least half an hour.'

'As long as it offers some camp, singalong entertainment then it will have served its purpose. Rock of Ages doesn't.'

'hugely dislikable film'