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曾经在电影《摇滚校园》中有出色表现的Tenacious D乐队主唱杰克·布莱克（Jack Black）又将参与一部新电影，而且这部电影还是与他的乐团有关。

另外，除了自己编写剧本，电影原声带也是由乐队自己包办，团员KyleGass在接受访问时表示：“这肯定是我所看过最好笑的剧本，故事一开始是在讲Tenacious D的成立过程，讲述我们一直希望能找到一块神奇的吉他pick，如此一来我们就能像摇滚之神那般弹奏音乐。这部电影充满趣味。”
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
It's easy but not accurate to call Tenacious D a one-joke band, since they do love one joke best of all: that they are the greatest band in the world. It's a credit to Jack Black and Kyle Gass' strengths as writers and performers that at their best they can convince you it's true. Like the best comedians, the key is both in the writing and the delivery: jokes can be good on paper, but they need to be delivered with flair, and few have the flair of Jack Black, who has made megalomania inspiring, even adorable. That quality combined with serious vocal chops -- anybody who saw him on Mr. Show's "The Joke: The Musical" back in 1997 knew that he could sing -- gave Tenacious D both star power and musical substance, while Gass grounds it by giving Jack a comic foil, plus lead guitar and harmony. When it all gels, as it did on their short-lived HBO series and their 2001 debut, it's glorious, but even that 2001 LP indicated a problem with the D: when the scale gets larger, they get smaller, or at least their reason for being begins to unravel. Since the reason their joke works is that JB and KG are underdogs -- they're the best band in the world, it's just that the rest of the world hasn't figured it out yet -- when they're no longer underdogs, they're not quite as funny, or endearing. They're at their best when it's the two of them on-stage, playing acoustic guitars and riffing off each other. They're good enough that they can survive a bigger budget, as the debut illustrates -- it always helps to have Dave Grohl on your side, of course -- but a really big budget is still a problem, as the soundtrack to their big-screen extravaganza, The Pick of Destiny, proves.... Read More...