Cinema always is a lie, in a way or another. However, a movie with good intentions about music cannot just make us believe that pop crap with no soul, nor rythm, nor even a good bass, might actually be called rock music (yeah, I know, that is most producers' and radio broadcasters' job to lie about this !), and make people rock or roll on it.
Like every Hollywood teenage movie, this one is featuring a dichotomy between who is popular and who is not in the high school, who has already a girlfriend and who has not, who is beautiful (thus void), and who is unable to socialize because they are way too smart and 'artistic' for the regular highschool teenager. The plot is unorignal and the story lame and obvious, like you could see it come without even watching the trailer of this shit.
Yet it is a shame, for there actually are a few very good things too ! Some good gags, some good dialogs, some good emotions...
But what about David Bowie watching the lame song performed by the young characters at the end and claiming he likes it ? There perhaps ought to be a limit to Hollywood foolishness, sometimes.
PS : how in the world did they come up with such a lousy 'french' title ("College Rock Stars", that is to say not even in french) ? It is likely that they made a confusion between "high school", "college", and "collège" (french for "secondary school")... Lousy translation for a lousy movie !
This film gives the impression it was made in the eighties, for its style and for the story it tells. It has the same qualities as many good 80's french movies, plus a good visual aesthetic (they did not always have that back then).
