It's hard to call Detroit
Rock City a "coming of age" movie--since it's hard to argue that
any of the characters do any genuine growing up...
But even though it's about
four young metalheads trying to get to a KISS concert, the movie actually has
more in common with sincere portraits of adolescence than it does with raucous
teen comedies. The four heroes are members of a teen metal band called Mystery
(the s is written in the same font as the letters of KISS, lest anyone
mistake their source of inspiration)...
After the drummer's religiously zealous
mother burns their tickets to a long-awaited concert in nearby Detroit, the
boys go anyway and try to get tickets through theft, skullduggery, and entering
a male stripper contest....
The jokes are broad and the movie culminates in an
orgy of male adolescent wish-fulfillment, but here and there some loving
attention is paid to the details of 1970s teenage life--the haircuts, clothes,
and toys the filmmakers probably had when they were kids. Edward Furlong, as the
band's singer, is his usual scruffy self and exudes his particular lopsided
charm; the rest of the cast play their parts with similar high spirits.
Though Detroit
Rock City was probably meant to be a no-holds-barred comedy in the vein of American
Pie, the end result is curiously wistful; no one's going to mistake it for The
Last Picture Show, but something sincere and elegiac lurks in those
bang-covered eyes. --Bret Fetzer (Amazon.com)
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