Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

fbm72751 The two things I like about this film is the music and the 1950's re-creations, plus seeing a young Jay Leno who really grew up during the next 14 years before replacing Johnny Carson. But from there it's all downhill. The chronology is positively awful and those who lived in the 1950s as well as fans of such will spot it instantly. The movie begins around the late Buddy Holly's birthday (referenced twice) so that would make it September 7, 1959. That part would pass as Freed was still on the air until November. But then we hear supposedly new songs being rehearsed which wasn't so at all. Songs like Tweedlee Dee, Come Go With Me and I Wonder Why were from 1955,'57 & '58 respectively. Then later we hear "Stay" being played which of course didn't not come out until the fall of 1960 which by then, Freed was long gone. Frankie Ford is showed recording Sea Cruise which in reality hit the charts in February. To really mess things up, it shows that school being out for the summer, so are we going back to May or fast forwarding to 1960? The part of Jerry Lee Lewis performing at the festival in front of a cheering crowd could be authentic as Freed was the one DJ who still played his records but highly unlikely as most were not ready to forgive Jerry just yet. The advertisement in that this was the beginning of that era was in fact totally the opposite as by latter 1959, the 1950s rock & roll party was about over. Lewis was pretty much done in latter 1958. The deaths of Buddy Holly and two others was a blow that proved difficult to recover from. Chuck Berry went to jail towards the end of the year and with the payola scandal knocking Freed out of the picture, the party was indeed over and the music would mellow out for the next four years into the so-called "innocent years".

pimpcheeze Floyd Mutrux is a golden god of American film making. "Hollywood Knights" is the greatest movie ever made, and this (American Hot Wax) may be the second. If "American Graffiti" can make it to DVD, this can.I would imagine the reason it hasn't yet been released is licensing of all the songs, the reason the Hollywood Knights disc was delayed for so long. Everyone is greedy these days, but isn't a little something better than nothing at all? Let it go, people!It is a great movie about a great time not only in America, but music. This is the 'big bang' of rock n'roll. Chuck Berry wears the exact same clothes from his very own closet as he did in '56, in this movie. The reason the RnR Hall of Fame is in Cleveland, is because that's where Alan Freed started - and he coined the phrase "rock n'roll". In this movie, like the aforementioned HK movie, Mutrux's eye for talent brings to the screen for the first time actors/actresses that would become luminaries in the future. Leno, Drescher, who knew? GET THIS MOVIE TO DVD NOW, thank you. :)

gregory-adamo This is one of the few films about Rock & Roll that gets it. The film has great music much of it from some of the original musicians. It has one of the most interesting performances in film history from Tim McIntire. He makes you feel both Freed's love of the music and the complexity of an individual who had great impact on our society. But most of all the film communicates how Rock & Roll can bring people together. If you can get beyond the film's lack of a plot you can pick up on the "feeling" the film has. There are scenes, such as the one in the recording studio, that are great examples of Marshall McLuhan's concept of "all-at- onceness" that is essential to the power of Rock & Roll.

waxowilko I saw this movie when released in the cinema chains and enjoyed. The plot line, although a bit fairy tale in concept, was supported by a great musical score and personal appearances such as Jerry Lee Lewis. An example is Chuck Berry, who told when he was not going to get paid said words to the effect that he would do it for the love of rock 'n' roll!The soundtrack was released on vinyl but sadly, like so many other rock 'n' roll movies including but not limited to 'The Girl Can't Help It' this film has yet to be issued in DVD disc format.The film companies, by their apathy, are denying movie musical historians access to legendary, and not so legendary, performances of the music that swept the past away like an avalanche. They are also opening the market place up to bootleggers, not a good practice.