The
rock band Kiss have come a long way. Together with Alice Cooper, they helped create
shock value--a style that runs rampant these days with groups like Marilyn Manson
and Rob Zombie. Back then, however, it wasn't nearly as acceptable.
In
this film, a group of moronic, yet lovable, buddies take a road trip to see their
all-time favorite band, after their tickets are burned by one of their God-fearing
mothers.
This
is a forgettable, disjointed film--yet one with some very funny moments. Director
Adam Rifkin manages to capture the feel of the era, while he sends his band of
misfits from one absurd situation to the next.
Ed
Furlong (Terminator 2) gives one of the better performances in the film, as does
Lin Shaye (Kingpin, There's Something About Mary) as a clueless religious fanatic.
Detroit
Rock City is very much in the tradition of Porky's and Animal House. It isn't
half as good as those films, but in it's own goofball way, it was better than
American Pie and the huge onslaught of other teen pictures in the past couple
of years, Election excluded.
