History YMMV / RockOfAges

* {{Narm}}: Tom Cruise singing "I Wanna Know What Love Is" into Malin Akerman's butt.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: One may be tempted to say, all of it, but ''the'' SugarWiki/CrowningMusicOfAwesome among the SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic has to be "Don't Stop Believing", in reality by Music/{{Journey|Band}}, InUniverse by Drew and Sherrie, which leaves Stacee Jaxx speechless upon hearing it for the first time and [[spoiler:has him cover it after reuniting with Arsenal]].

* GeniusBonus: History buffs will get the most chuckles, but the humor is slapstick enough for anyone. Best exemplified by the cutscene introducing Copernicus, which accurately displays his thoughts about the universe and how he was persecuted for it… As a game of croquet. Similarly, when you meet Henry XIII, you get a brief rundown of his six wives and their fates.

* GeniusBonus: History buffs will get the most chuckles, but the humor is slapstick enough for anyone. Best exemplified by the cutscene introducing Copernicus, which accurately displays his thoughts about the universe and how he was persecuted for it… As a game of croquet. Similarly, when you meet Henry XIII, you get a brief rundown of his many, many wives.

* GeniusBonus: History buffs will get the most chuckles, but the humor is slapstick enough for anyone. Best exemplified by the cutscene introducing Copernicus, which accurately displays his thoughts about the universe and how he was persecuted for it… As a game of croquet.

* GeniusBonus: History buffs will get the most chuckles, but the humor is slapstick enough for anyone.

* WidgetSeries: This is a weird game. This is a ''seriously'' weird game. It classes as something of a "Witchet" ('''W'''eird '''C'''hilean '''T'''hing).

* JustHereForGodzilla: Usually the main reason people give to sit through the movie Tom Cruise's performance, which many argue is the only redeeming part.

** The sequel's art direction is absolutely ''stunning''. From faithful recreations of classical artwork to what is basically extremely faithful 3D recreations of paintings like "Starry Night", to a level where you roll down the sides of Mount Vesuvius while it’s erupting, to a stage that is basically one massive homage to Salvador Dalí, the game is practically a love letter to the history of art beautifully rendered in 3D.

* WereStillRelevantDammit: The cutscenes of the third game got a lot of criticism for utilizing a lot old and forgotten memes. For example, one of the characters you confront in the game isn’t any historical or mythical figure but the… Flying Spaghetti Monster, several years after his meme was [[DiscreditedMeme discredited]] and fell into obscurity. Also, another opponent is Ecce Mono, whose meme was irrelevant since 2012. Similarly, after winning a match, you get a reference to the "Coffin Dance" meme.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: The movie seems to spent 25 percent of its running time mocking Patricia Whitmore and the other 75 percent showing why she has good reason to oppose the Sunset Strip rock subculture.
** [[spoiler:Only Jaxx really confirmed her views - and growing out of that kind of attitude was the whole point of his CharacterDevelopment in the movie.]]
* UnfortunateImplications: The FreudianExcuse of the villain in the film is that she was seduced and then abandoned by a rock star, [[WomanScorned inspiring her]] to begin her crusade to lobby the government to ban rock music. The thing is, she is presented as an entirely negative character, while her ex is portrayed relatively positively, even joining the protagonists' band at the end, even though it was he who both made the first move in their relationship and left her. As [[http://musicalhell.blogspot.com/2014/04/musical-hell-rock-of-ages-plus.html the Musical Hell review]] points out, the only reason she's a villain and he isn't is SlutShaming.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: One may be tempted to say, all of it, but ''the'' SugarWiki/CrowningMusicOfAwesome among the SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic has to be "Don't Stop Believing", in reality by Music/{{Journey}}, InUniverse by Drew and Sherrie, which leaves Stacee Jaxx speechless upon hearing it for the first time and [[spoiler:has him cover it after reuniting with Arsenal]].

* WereStillRelevantDammit: The cutscenes of the third game got a lot of criticism for utilizing a lot old and forgotten memes. For example, one of the characters you confront in the game isn’t any historical or mythical figure but the… Flying Spaghetti Monster, several years after his meme was [[DiscreditedMeme discredited]] and fell into obscurity. Similarly, after winning a match, you get a reference to the "Coffin Dance" meme.

!!The Musical[=/=]The Film

* HoYay: Between Lonny and Dennis. [[spoiler: They end up together through a duet of "[[Music/REOSpeedwagon Can't Fight This Feeling]]".]]

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Lonnie and Dennis have a [[HoYay love song]] but that aspect of the relationship is pretty much not mentioned ever again. It's a jukebox musical, but still.
** Which gets blown out to the point where the two of them become a couple in the movie. Read that again: two guys played by Russell Brand and Alec Baldwin becoming a couple.

** Downplayed with Atlas who isn’t any better since he is purposely trying to avoid his responsibility of holding the world up, whilst causing just as much damage, but with how many of the opponents in the game are total jerks or outright villains, Atlas can at least be excused by defending himself most of the time.

* NightmareFuel: Vincent Van Gogh in the sequel. Honestly, there's no way to accurately describe how unsettling he is.

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The sequel's art direction is absolutely ''stunning''. From faithful recreations of classical artwork to what is basically extremely faithful 3D recreations of paintings like "Starry Night", to a level where you roll down the sides of Mount Vesuvius while it’s erupting, to a stage that is basically one massive homage to Salvador Dalí, the game is practically a love letter to the history of art beautifully rendered in 3D.
** Meanwhile, the third game has levels that are stunning recreations of artworks from Asia, India, and Mesoamerica

** Downplayed with Atlas who isn’t any better since he is purposely trying to avoid his responsibility of holding the world up, whilst causing just as much damage, but with how many of the opponents in the game are total jerks or outright villains Atlas can at least be excused by defending himself most of the time.

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome:The sequel's art direction is absolutely ''stunning''. From faithful recreations of classical artwork to what is basically extremely faithful 3D recreations of paintings like "Starry Night", to a level where you roll down the sides of Mount Vesuvius while it’s erupting, to a stage that is basically one massive homage to Salvador Dalí, the game is practically a love letter to the history of art beautifully rendered in 3D.