While Black and Gass’ comedic chemistry carries the increasingly absurd humor to new heights, comedy legends round out the supporting cast cameos and bit parts.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 1, 2024

It's a fun ride in the puerile style of Kevin Smith, but for non-fans of Black or the D, this will grate like a tone-deaf musician.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2018

If you put your brain in park, it's all vaguely amusing, in a silly fashion, much like a Ramones song, three chords of dumb fun that blows away like so much dry-ice smoke.

| Aug 23, 2017

Yup, it's Jack Black -- with an "R" ... really.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2011

"Tenacious D" is a movie for fans of the hilarious spoof-rocking duo. You know who you are.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 24, 2009

Long may they continue to walk in Ronnie James Dio's short but comforting shadow.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 12, 2008

Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny is diverting and fun and a great treat for fans, but it's as forgettable as Chinese dinner at the nursing home.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2008

Little more than a set of sketches strung along a plotline that is gossamer light.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 7, 2007

May just win over the rockers of old and new...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 19, 2007

I enjoyed it, though as a casual fan who also dug the Tenacious D album and DVD, I don't know how it'll play for newcomers.

| Original Score: B | Aug 3, 2007

While the flick has a few funny moments likely to make the general public laugh, at heart it's a Tenacious D tribute layered with asides and inside jokes scripted with the group's diehard fans in mind.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 25, 2007

Apart from the cameos, the movie limps along from one satiric rock song to another, with only the music to carry it.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 24, 2007

Being a Jack Black fan is mandatory for this zany, energetic and relentless buddy movie, rock opera and crass low-brow comedy which no doubt has more appeal with mood enhancers - a hyperactive dose of Jack Black in a self-indulgent rock fantasy.

| Feb 10, 2007

Clearly intended to be viewed through a haze of marijuana smoke, it'd be against the law for us to recommend this film.

| Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

The narrative, not surprisingly, is really just an excuse to string together a series of comic and musical setpieces, some of which work better than others.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

When they weren't performing, I frequently lost the will to live.

| Dec 30, 2006

The film's as big and flawed as the band itself. But just like any concertgoer wants their favorite band to pull out all the stops, so too will every D fanatic want another hour of this rambling, pumped-up and psyched-out acid trip of a film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 30, 2006

Tenacious D's big screen outing is extremely patchy but the laughs just about compensate for all the dull, unamusing bits.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006