Tom Cruise plays rocker Stacee Jaxx in the musical movie "Rock of Ages." | Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
Alec Baldwin (left) plays Dennis Dupree in "Rock of Ages," which also features Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx. | Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
Tom Cruise plays Stacee Jaxx in "Rock of Ages," the big-screen version of the popular Broadway musical. | Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
The couple in "Rock of Ages" is played by Julianne Hough as Sherrie Christian and Diego Boneta as Drew Boley. | Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
Malin Akerman stars as Constance Sack in "Rock of Ages," which also features Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx. | Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
The music club in "Rock of Ages" is owned by Dennis Dupree (Alec Baldwin). | Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
Julianne Hough, of the TV show "Dancing With the Stars" and the new version of "Footloose," plays a starry-eyed Oklahoma girl who heads to Hollywood in 1987 and ends up waiting tables in "Rock of Ages." | Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
Julianne Hough plays Sherrie Christian in "Rock of Ages," which also stars Diego Boneta as Drew Boley. | Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
Dennis Dupree (left, Alec Baldwin) and Lonny Barnett (Russell Brand) are longtime friends in "Rock of Ages." | Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
Sherrie Christian (foreground, left, Julianne Hough) and Drew Boley (foreground, right, Diego Boneta) just want to rock in "Rock of Ages." | Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
The cast of the "Rock of Ages" movie includes Russell Brand (from left) as Lonny Barnett, Julianne Hough as Sherrie Christian, Diego Boneta as Drew Boley, and Alec Baldwin as Dennis Dupree. | Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
★★1/2 Just when you thought you’d never hear Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me” again outside of a strip club comes “Rock of Ages.” The movie is a shiny, splashy homage to the decadence of 1980s rock ’n’ roll. Specifically, we’re talking about 1987 …