If the plot of Rainn WIlson's The Rocker sounds familiar, it's probably because you saw the movie a few years ago when it was called School of Rock. Unfortunately for Wilson, who will never top his Dwight Schrute character from The Office, no matter how hard he tries, his performance doesn't measure up to Jack Black's, a point that movie reviewers really wanted to get across. In fact, it was so important that Black be praised in reviews for the The Rocker, that the secret movie reviewer society issued a memo this week instructing all reviewers to do just that. And did they ever oblige:

"If ever there was a movie that was built around Jack Black, this is it; it's so Jack Blackian in its conceit, you think it must have been plucked from Black's reject pile while he was off making Tropic Thunder."—Washington Post

"Jack Black made School of Rock great because he was an authentic embodiment of that spirit and a walking air-guitar doofus. But Rainn Wilson has no wild-child demons, no inner rock star; he's a guy who belongs in an office cubicle. (He's like the rogue son of Garrison Keillor.)"—Entertainment Weekly

"Playing what is unavoidably a second cousin to Jack Black's character in School of Rock, Wilson comes at the role as if attending the same classes and his moments of immaturity and crassness can't really hold a candle to what Black was able to pull off so perfectly."—E Film Critic

"But while Wilson mugs and broods, purses his lips and puffs his chest, the character actor—the strange Dwight Schrute of TV's The Office, the even stranger Arthur on HBO's Six Feet Under—doesn't have the heft to carry an entire film. Jack Black's fearless, foolish ferocity is missing."—Philadelphia Inquirer

"The Rocker feels like another one of those movies Will Ferrell turned down, so the producers had to find the next best thing (and Jack Black was already under contract to do something else)."—Waffle Movies

"It's the kind of role ready-made for Jack Black..."—Variety

"The Rocker, a minor entry in the "old rockers freaking out young rockers" subgenre, will go down in history as the first Jack Black film to exist independently of the manic star himself."—Austin Chronicle

"Forty-something wannabe rock star worms his way into his teenage nephew's band. How many times do you think Will Ferrell and Jack Black have turned down that pitch? I'm guessing approximately eleventy billion. Rainn Wilson (of TV's The Office) can't afford to be so choosy."—Star Tribune

"Jack Black was here: Rainn Wilson in The Rocker plays familiar tune."—Canadian Press

"Rainn Wilson is a total rock star. His borderline nut job 1,000-yard stare may have been trademarked long ago by Jack Black..."—San Francisco Bay Guardian

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