Rock 'N' Roll High School

Rock 'n' Roll High School is a 1979 American musical comedy film directed by Allan Arkush, produced by Michael Finnell, and starring P. J. Soles, Vince Van Patten, Clint Howard, and Dey Young.[3] The film featured the punk rock group The Ramones.

Plot
The movie is set in 1980. Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous breakdowns because of the students' love of rock 'n' roll and their disregard for education. The leader of the students, Riff Randell (P. J. Soles), is the biggest Ramones fan at school. She waits in line for three days to get tickets to see the band, hoping to meet Joey Ramone so she can give him a song she wrote for the band, "Rock 'n' Roll High School". When Principal Togar (Mary Woronov) takes her ticket away, Riff and her best friend Kate Rambeau (Dey Young) have to find another way to meet their heroes—by winning a radio contest. When Miss Togar and a group of parents attempt to burn a pile of rock records, the students, joined by the Ramones (who are made honorary students) overthrow the teachers and hall monitors to take over the high school, with Miss Togar asking the musicians "Do your parents know you're Ramones?"[4] When the police are summoned and demand that the students evacuate the building, they do so, but then the students and the Ramones burn down the school as a final act of youthful rebellion.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) It stars the number one punk band: The Ramones.
 * 2) Great acting especially from P.J Soles as Riff Randel.
 * 3) Great soundtrack both from Ramones songs and from other artists.
 * 4) The ending as well as the scene where the ramones play a live concert are very awesome.
 * 5) It has a good sense of humor.
 * 6) One of the school teachers is a funny and hilarious character.
 * 7) The pizza scene where Joey wants some pizza but then someone tells him not to eat it and then feeds him with something else is funny.
 * 8) Good story with great comedy.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) While the ramones we're overadvertised for this movie it actually mainly focuses on Riff Randel somewhat misleading.
 * 2) The students are a little stereotypical.
 * 3) Some inappropriate for a PG rated movies like characters smoking riff naked during the i want you around clip at a short while and a character sniffing glue at a concert.
 * 4) The exploding mouse scene is a bit disturbing.
 * 5) It was a box Office bomb.
 * 6) The main villian is kinda weak.

Reception
Rock 'n' Roll High School received generally positive reviews and has an 80% rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews from 24 film critics.

trivia

 * The movie is originally going to be about disco called disco high school then heavy metal as heavy metal high school.
 * The Ramones we're not originally going to star in this movie and instead feature a diffrent band like cheap trick for example.