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Tenacious D Time has come to blow your mind! But before they can, they need to get their publicity up, by appearing in as many diverse films as possible. Last year, roundabout, they were in Tim Robbins' fantastic "Cradle Will Rock." Haveing strutted their stuff to the art theater crowd, something dumb had to be done. Along came Silverman. Jack Black is more of a leading man, so he's a much bigger role than Kyle Gass's pretty funny cameo. Black was also likely cast because he's friggin hilarious. Steve Zahn can be quite funny as well. So allow me to make a theory.

Joe Producer, not his name, but i didn't want to be bothered with fact checking, has a crappy little script, semi-interesting premise, but not an ounce of funny, just a few dumb setpieces. But then these up and comers mentioned above should still work cheap, and Jason Biggs is still riding his pie humping fame, let's get him as a sympathetic lead. Lead as in frontman, not as in the metal or his performance. Amanda Peet is willing to show us the sides of her breasts for half the movie, and she's enough of a name, perhaps for that reason, to draw a few people. We can worry about the script later. We've got Charm!

No, no you don't. You've got a set full of people with a look on their face that says "Gimmie my check and a screen credit and I'll see you on video." R. Lee Ermey seemed to put the most into his performance, which was awesome, as the guys' ex-football coach. For those who can't place him, he's the drill Sgt. in just about every movie since, uh, ever. He was able to use the provided lines, which were painful, and just kind of have fun. It worked because he's not typically known for comedy.

The rest of the cast, well, what could they do? There wasn't enough room to ever totally cut loose, because there were too many plot points, more or less, to work around. They actually had lines that needed to be said, and had to make them funny. Notice how round about, repetitive, and yet slowly progressing this review is, and how the jokes are just squeezed in? You've just seen "Saving Silverman."