Rock My World Reviews

A pair of impoverished, elderly English aristocrats rent out their stately home to a rock band in this slight and very uneven comedy. Lord and Lady Foxley (Peter O'Toole, Joan Plowright), stone broke and mortified by their plight, rent their manor house to hot rockers — Dave (Lochlyn Munro), Leo (Jaimz Woolvett)and Flit (Karem Malicki-Sanchez) — collectively "Global Conspiracy." Unfortunately, their lead singer has disappeared without a trace, so the remaining members need somewhere to hole up while they figure out what to do. And they don't know the half of their troubles: Their their label is scheming to cheat the unsophisticate group out of their royalties. Meanwhile the Foxleys, desperate to keep their desperation secret, send their cook and butler on holiday and hire temporary replacements for the week of the band's stay: The lease agreement includes live-in servants. But the replacements fail to show, so the Foxleys pretend to be domestics, with predictably dreadful results. Lord Foxley is much better at being waited on than waiting on others, and Lady Foxley is a dreadful cook even by English standards. Fortunately for the headless Conspiracy, sexy female bass player Nat (Alicia Silverstone) is looking for a gig. The aristocrats bumble and fume. The potty mouthed youngsters act all wild and crazy. But eventually they all overcome the barriers of generation, class, nationality and lame sitcom plotting. Unfortunately, viewers inclined to enjoy the gentle interplay between veteran UK thespians Plowright and O'Toole (who manage to retain their dignity even in the inevitable sequence in which they accidentally ingest an illegal substance) may be put off by the film's relentless foul language, while younger viewers probably won't care for their dotty carryings on. This misconceived film played theatrically as GLOBAL CONSIRACY in Canada. But despite a flurry of publicity about the pairing of living legend O'Toole and popular cutie Silverstone, it went directly to video in the US with a new title and box art that emphasized the youthful rock 'n' roll angle and banished the old folks from sight.