Tenacious D in 'The Pick Of Destiny'

Tenacious D in 'The Pick Of Destiny', directed by Liam Lynch

Tenacious D stars Jack Black which is one of the reasons why I went to see this movie, having heard not much of the plot line I was oblivious as to what the film was about. So I went with two friends to see this movie on a Monday night at the Aberystwyth Students Union whereby meeting a few other people, we all sat down and watched the titles roll.

I have to admit that I have never seen a movie like this before, the opening sequence features the young character of Jack Black called JB who sings abusive lyrics round the dinner table. His mum, dad and brother are inflicted with this torture and from the clear iconography they are morally christian. It is immediately established that rock is his life and purpose, but his family frowns upon it leaving him with no other choice but to run away to Hollywood.

It is then we have a montage of his journey across America with the young boy then turning into Jack Black whereby he comes across a guy called KG who he thinks is a rock legend when really he's a fake. What makes this film flip out of reality is that on Jack Black's arse there is a birthmark 'tena' and on KG`s there is 'cious D', so they call their band Tenacious D believing that fate brought them together to become the ultimate rock band ever. Ok so normality is not here, but that's what makes this film unique, the music is brilliant and it has a great cool rock edge and combined with the talent of Jack Black makes this film reliable plus a good watch. Also Ben Stiller makes a cameo appearance as well as Tim Robins who are both funny and superb in helping to lead Jack Black as the main protagonist.

The plot unfolds as they go on a quest to find a magical guitar pick used by some of the worlds greatest rock stars, but it is housed in a rock and roll museum so JB and KG plan to break in and steal the guitar pick. This pick is supposedly a part of a broken tooth of Satan, so basically the plot is very far fetched.

But even so, the music is fantastic, Jack Black is as funny as ever and the way it was shot kept me entertained for the entire film so all in all it was Rock On!