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Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny
2006
**
Director: Liam Lynch
Cast: Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Jason Reed, Ben Stiller, Paul F. Tompkins, Tim Robbins, Ronnie James Dio, Dave Grohl, Meat Loaf

This fictionalised story of the comedy band Tenacious D begins and ends with a fart joke, and everything inbetween pretty much stinks. The band's two members, Jack Black and Kyle Gass, are two stocky potheads who dream of stardom. They learn of the Pick of Destiny, which was forged from Satan's tooth and used by many of their idols, and believe it could be the missing link to success. The band's TV shorts and crude cock rock are enjoyable in small doses, but this tiresome 90-minute rock opera is extremely thinly scripted. All the good bits are in the first fifteen minutes when Ronnie James Dio appears in a brief cameo and the band play Bach on the Venice Beach.