Direct from the Broadway stage, blasting at deafening volume, this raucous rock musical adaptation is a seriously silly riff on life on Hollywood's famed Sunset Strip, back in 1987. That is the year ...

It's really hard to pin down the ideal demographic for this nostalgic yet Glee-esque take on a seedy recent-ish era. So we're going to tackle its one big question: who is this movie for exactly?

Rock of Ages is nothing but a good time and sometimes less, slogging through the knee-deep hoopla of 1980s nostalgia at a jukebox pace. The stage version is remarkably thin beyond ...