Forget Jack Black. Joan Cusack is responsible for some of 'School of Rock's best and funniest moments.
The Big Picture When it comes to the 2003 film School of Rock, the performance everyone always praises is Jack Black as protagonist Dewey Finn. And why wouldn't one heap endless praise on Black's work here? It's the ultimate distillation of his comedic style, as perfect a microcosm of a performer's persona as Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby or Will Ferrell in Elf. Within Dewey Finn, Black delivers the greatest iterations of his classical confident-but-clumsy antics.
However, she also doesn’t come across like an adult figure in a Roald Dahl children’s book in this scene. She’s firm, but there’s a light twinge of tragedy in how she can’t be seen as potentially comforting to the kids she’s overseeing. Cusack’s light depiction of disappointment in the face of Miss Mullins immediately makes it clear to viewers that there’s more going on with this character than just being an obstacle in Dewey’s path.
Finn may get his permission to oversee a field trip through this sequence, but audiences get the delightful treat of seeing Joan Cusack thrive in her role as Miss Mullins. A subsequent scene where Mullins opens up to Finn about how she’s “become a B!” continues Cusack’s gift for executing humor with concrete character work. She’s so good at making Mullins a consistently recognizable figure even as we uncover groovier layers of this individual.
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