Drew tries to catch the robber, but fails. As Sherrie approaches The Bourbon, her suitcase is stolen. Meanwhile, barback Drew Boley ( Diego Boneta) prepares for another night of work at The Bourbon Room ("Sister Christian/Just Like Paradise/Nothin' But a Good Time"). In 1987, Sherrie Christian ( Julianne Hough) arrives in Los Angeles from Oklahoma with dreams of becoming a singer. The related film soundtrack also did critically well, certified Gold in Canada. However, Cruise was particularly lauded for his performance of " Pour Some Sugar on Me" and " Wanted Dead or Alive". The film received mixed critical reviews and grossed only $59 million worldwide. Blige, Bryan Cranston and Tom Cruise, the film features the music of many 1980s Rock and Glam Rock artists including Def Leppard, Journey, Scorpions, Poison, Foreigner, Guns N' Roses, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, Bon Jovi, Twisted Sister, Whitesnake, REO Speedwagon and others. Starring country singer Julianne Hough and Diego Boneta leading an ensemble cast that includes Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin, Paul Giamatti, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Malin Åkerman, Mary J. Originally scheduled to enter production in summer 2009 for a 2011 release, it eventually commenced production in May 2011 and was released on June 15, 2012. The film is an adaptation of the 2006 rock jukebox Broadway musical of the same name by Chris D'Arienzo. For better and for worse, he pushes everyone else into the background.Rock of Ages is a 2012 musical comedy-drama film directed by Adam Shankman. From the moment he’s introduced (wearing leather chaps and gargoyle-headed codpiece) he makes an impact, swaggering through each scene and delivering the goods during his song numbers. Of the large ensemble cast, only Cruise really gets into the swing of things, playing his incredibly debauched, dissolute, and disconnected fallen rock god to the hilt. (Whoever decided to combine Twisted Sister with Starship deserves a smack.) Sadly, what little credibility Rock of Ages builds up is squandered by the “We’re Not Gonna Take It/We Built This City” mash-up. Baldwin and Brand’s take on REO Speedwagon’s “Can’t Fight This Feeling” is mildly amusing, and Cruise and Malin Ackerman (as a smitten Rolling Stonereporter) deliver a suitably raunchy duet of “I Wanna Know What Love Is” perks things up considerably, but the movie immediately deflates afterwards. In fact, so much of Rock of Ages feels programmed and familiar that there is very little in the way of surprises. It certainly doesn’t help that the movie’s central duo, Hough and Boneta, are completely bland and vocally anemic, or that their characters’ rote boy-meets-girl, boy-looses-girl romance is dull and predictable. She meets and falls for Drew (Diego Boneta), an aspiring rocker who gets her a job at the legendary rock club The Bourbon Room, run by aging promoter Denis Dupree (Alec Baldwin) and his assistant Lonny (Russell Brand).
The plot is entirely formulaic: all-American girl Sherrie Christian (Julianne Hough) gets off a Greyhound bus in West Hollywood, having escaped Oklahoma in search of a singing career. It’s a two-hour anthology of about two dozen 1980s glam rock hits grafted onto a thin, formulaic plot, and despite its fist-pumping attempts to worship at the altar of Rock, the energy just isn’t there. The concept - a jukebox musical about rock stars on their respective trajectories up and down the fame ladder in Hollywood circa 1987 - is the sort of thing that works on Broadway but flops on film. As Journey so eloquently put it in that song: the movie never ends, it goes on and on and on and on. Sitting through Rock of Ages is akin to being trapped at karaoke night at the local dive, where you’re pummeled by ill-advised renditions of ’80s hair metal and can’t make it through the evening without some jackass breaking into “Don’t Stop Believin'”.
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