Get ready to rock!

IT’S the classic story, just a small town girl, moving to the big city in search of fame - Journey even wrote a song about it and is just one of the 80s classic rock hits to feature in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, Rock of Ages.

Quite simply, Rock of Ages is a must for all musical fans - and if you’re a child of the 80s with a fondness for classic 80s rock then you’re going to love it; it’s the guiltiest of guilty pleasures.

Blessed with unstoppable energy, an undeniably bawdy sense of fun and Tom Cruise in leather trouses, it takes songs you may never have loved and turns them into a musical that’s easy to enjoy.

Those tunes, undying anthems like Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’, Twisted Sister’s We’re Not Gonna Take It and Foreigner’s I Want to Know What Love Is, come courtesy of the 2009 musical tribute to 1980s rock that was nominated for five Tonys and is still playing on Broadway.

In the film version, Cruise plays Stacee Jaxx, presumably modeled on the likes of Axl Rose, Steven Tyler and Jon Bon Jovi, he makes women faint — literally — when he walks into a room.

Our small town girl Sherrie (Julianne Hough) ends up working as waitress in The Bourbon Room - owned and managed by Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand - where she meets Drew (Diego Boneta), an anspiring musician.

The Bourbon may be packed every night, but it is losing money, which is why the club approaches Stacee Jaxx to do a benefit.

Enter not only Stacee but also his slimy manager (Paul Giamatti) and Rolling Stone reporter (Malin Akerman) whose tough questions get under the rocker’s skin.

Equally committed to her role as Patricia Whitmore, the God-fearing wife of the Los Angeles mayor, is Catherine Zeta-Jones. Whitmore, a character invented for the film, is determined to reclaim the evil Strip for the city’s abstemious citizens.

This crowd-pleasing film provides goofy fun and outrageous moments. A nostalgic good time is guaranteed as you listen to great voices sing these memorable songs.

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