The 10 Most Disappointing Movies Of The Past 5 Years

From:  The Backlot

7.

  Rock of Ages

Or as I like to call it: Gym Teacher’s iPod. Anytime a Broadway hit is adapted for the big screen, you want it to rule since the formula seems impossible to screw up. The great songs! The fun characters! The dancing! But Rock of Ages proves you can draft every available A-lister and still screw up an intentionally dorky good time. Tom Cruise is merely fine as snarling rocker Stacee Jaxx, Catherine Zeta-Jones is zanily overcompensating as an ’80s Tipper Gore type, and there is so little charisma between stars Diego Boneta and Julianne Hough that you end up hating the entire ’80s. Also: These songs are not so timeless after all. Particularly “Any Way You Want It.” No more.