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...EXUBERANCE IS BEAUTY," William Blake wrote, but he might balk today if he saw Joey Ramone. The funniest line of this movie belongs to a Ramones groupie--"I love Joey Ramone because he's so handsome...." Yet exuberant the Ramones are, and you'd expect them to make a movie the way they write a song--with good spirits, no subtlety and a lot of loud pounding. Rock and Roll High School is like that, only the adolescent fury that propels a two-and-a-half minute song can't sustain a 100-minute movie...
...obnoxiously unfunny hall monitors in tow, takes over Vince Lombardi and tries to restore order, you might consider buying popcorn or ducking into the theater next door to watch well-scrubbed adolescent girls in Peppermint Soda. Just make sure you're back in your seat by the time Joey Ramone snaps, "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" and launches into "Blitzkrieg Bop," because the ten-minute Ramones set is the movie's best part...
...Ramones themselves--bird-like Joey, Johnny with the hair over his eyes, and the other two--steal this scene, and the others they're in. They come across as comical, friendly, even beneficent, despite the leather and fake frozen sneers. A full-fledged Ramones movie starring the band--a sort of latter-day Hard Day's Night--would have made a lot more sense than what director Allan Arkush has given...
...debatable. She sweepingly dismisses rock musicals, even though rock is not necessarily incompatible with musical theater. (Indeed, the Beatles sang a song from The Music Man on their first hit American album.) Kaye's list of ground-breaking shows ignores such obvious candidates as Porgy and Bess, Pal Joey, The Most Happy Fella, West Side Story and Follies. She should get around to these soon. Musical Comedy Tonight is billed as the pilot for a series. By rights, it ought to run as long as the great musicals it celebrates...
...Joey" is an amusing vaudeville pinned on the line and left hanging in the breeze. There are not many characters to admire in the play--save, perhaps, Linda the ingenue. Rogers and Hart are telling us, basically, that you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. But Jeez! Get a load of dose gams...