Warner Bros Pictures brings the 2006 comedy rock Broadway musical entitled Rock of Ages that was created Chris D’Arienzo to the big screen beginning June 14 with Tom Cruise as the iconic Arsenal lead singer Stacee Jaxx. Joining Cruise in this movie are Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul Giamatti, Malin Åkerman, Bryan Cranston, with Alec Baldwin and Mary J. Blige. The musical film was directed by Adam Shankman. Rock of Ages features the songs made popular by Bon Jovi, Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Foreigner, Journey, Poison,Europe, Night Ranger, Twisted Sister, and REO Speedwagon.
The film follows the journey, dream and love story of Sherrie Christian (Hough) and Drew Boley (Boneta) who accidentally meet in the street across The Bourbon Room, a popular night club inLos Angeles. Sherrie who traveled all the way from Oklahoma and wanted to become a singer ended up to be a waitress at the club in order to survive everyday and finds similarity with Drew who is a bar back and dreams to be a rock star just like their idol Stacee Jaxx. But reaching for dreams is not that easy for them especially when they lost faith with each other and things are going the wrong way. But music of the heart whether it is rock & roll or not will always find way to bring them together to create beautiful melody that everyone will understand.
Rock of Ages is a kind of movie that gives the younger crowd the chance to appreciate a type of Rock & Roll that they will really appreciate and connect with. With the right combination of new and veteran actors it gives a diverse story that will place a movie goer whom they will relate themselves especially that each character has music to sing and represent. It was great to see Catherine Zeta-Jones still having that voice and moves after her award winning performance in Chicago 10 years ago and also Tom Cruise that has the Bon Jovi jive in the movie still have that charisma perfect for the character that will make the viewers like it, laugh and appreciate it.
Catch Rock of Ages on June 14 in cinemas nationwide with PG-13 rating by the MTRCB.
