Entertainment Weekly "[A]musing and spirited..." 06/10/2005 p.82USA Today "[E]njoyable....It's the kids who truly captivate..." 06/10/2005 p.4E Los Angeles Times "[I]mmensely entertaining..." 06/03/2005 p.E6 Sight and Sound "Green is a classically inspiring teacher....ROCK SCHOOL forms an unlikely companion piece to ETRE ET AVOIR." 08/01/2005 p.68 Uncut "Green's demagoguery and force-of-nature persona eat up the screen..." 10/01/2005 p.137 Hollywood Reporter 8 of 10 Rock School rips out in the gritty-underdogs-conquer-the-world story progression. In this real-life scenario, Green whips them into shape for a triumphant performance at a Zappa Festival in East Germany - Duane Byrge Rolling Stone 8 of 10 You cheered Jack Black in School of Rock, now give it up for Paul Green in the real thing. Green runs the Paul Green School of Rock Music in Philadelphia, and this fireball documentary from director Don Argott shows Green preaching the rock gospel to students ages nine to seventeen. "Dynamo" doesn't begin to describe Frank Zappa freak Green, who brings the cream of his crop to Germany to compete in the yearly Zappanale and makes believers of us all. - Peter Travers
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