Movies

I like Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute. His work on The Office is almost always dead on. That happens, in part, because the writers and director of that show work together to show off the character.
Too bad the makers of "The Rocker" didn't do the same.
Rainn plays Robert "Fish" Fishman, one-time member of an emerging 1980s hair band. Fish gets dumped from the band and spends years in a series of dead end jobs, bemoaning his fate. His old band mates go on to stardom.
Cut to today and Fish's nephew's request to play drums in his band at the prom.
Of course, lightning strikes and soon the band is on the way to stardom. Or is it? (Sure it is.)
Wilson's a gifted comic actor but "Fish" is written as a one-joke character and by the 20 minute mark Wilson had ground that joke to dust.
Emma Stone is charming as Amelia and Jason Sudeikis (from SNL) has some funny bits.
But it's Wilson's show all the way and it just doesn't work as more than a mild time waster.