Ruby & the Rockits (2009) User Reviews

Fun for the Family

[kemallory340 · 8/10 · 28 July 2009]

This is a good little sitcom that can be entertaining and good for your whole family. It's got plenty of little jokes thrown throughout and is setup like your standard half hour comedy.

It does lack some development and in some ways may be better off as an hour long show, but the half hour does get the job done fairly well.

It's not very original, other than mixing up a few different plots such as cousin having a crush on a cousin, long lost daughter finds washed up rockstar dad, and has been brother fighting with rockstar. As I said above though, it is quite entertaining.

Sadly, if your looking for original, you'll be looking for a while.

Great Comedy

[n-arghavan · 6/10 · 29 June 2010]

It's on of the best American comedies and since I love shows about music bands I really enjoyed it and by the way Ruby and Jordan are the best characters.I love teenage characters in TV shows.the only problem is I can't watch the original series.only on fox series middle east which features censorship.for me it was so interesting that i fell for it within the first two episodes.i recommend it to everybody throughout the world to watch it.having half an hour of fun mixed with music is something that every one is looking for and it is entertaining mostly for teenagers and young adults.thanks to the creator the show is not boring and you laugh along with the whole episode.it's just that I wish there was a second season for it and we could continue watching it.

Love it

[dramaqueen8981 · 10/10 · 16 August 2009]

I love this show! It is simple yet entertaining. If you like the Cassidy Family then this show may be interesting to you. The first couple of episodes were a little slow but it has significantly picked up. I enjoyed and it and like most books and shows sometimes you have to watch it to get into it. Give it a chance you might be surprised. It deals with a unique family. A family in which the biological father and the uncle both act as parental figures. Sometimes the hardest and funniest things in life are portrayed in films as stupid or choppy. This show makes it work. As i said earlier give it a shot. Do not give up on it in the first episode

Love the show!

[janiecandillo · 10/10 · 5 August 2009]

I was excited about watching this show because as a girl I had a crush on David Cassiday as well as his brother Shaun Cassidy. lol I have watched the first three shows and have really enjoyed it so far. The show is well written and funny in the right places. The actors seem to ad lib in at times which makes the show even more enjoyable. I'm an older viewer with two daughters ages 17 and 6 and I believe the show is appropriate for them to watch, in fact the show is appropriate for the whole family. I hope the show is on for many seasons to come and I look forward to watching future episodes. I'm happy to see that ABC Family is true to it's name by broadcasting enjoyable family television.

A sitcom without jokes.

[thuernman · 1/10 · 22 July 2009]

I just watched the pilot of this so-called show, and that was the worst 23 minutes of this year this far. The terrible, lousy actors are actually better at their jobs than the people adding the fake laughs. Every single line of dialogue is followed by laugh-in-a-box, no matter what is being said.

It has a shallow plot about a teenage girl meeting her father for the first time, and sadly that is the smallest cliché in this show.

I could go on and on rambling about the lousiness of this program, but I'll just leave you with an advice: Do not waste your time.

Seriously.

Great Family Show

[ladybryn · 10/10 · 22 July 2009]

Just watched the premiere of Ruby and the Rockits and was happy to see a new show that was great for the whole family to watch.

It has comedy, music and a great cast.

It's nice to see a show that doesn't need nudity or profanity to make it a really good show.

I saw David Cassidy in concert in Lincoln City last year and he was fantastic, it's nice to see him back on TV again.

His brother Patrick, I most recently saw a rerun of one of his movies, Love At Stake and if you have never seen that movie, and you are looking for a good laugh, you owe it to yourself to watch it.

Thanks to all involved in the show for giving me something to look forward to on Tuesdays.

Great Job!

Soul & The Demons !

[elshikh4 · 30 June 2010]

The strangest thing happened while watching this. Believe it or not, I was predicting all the lines before saying them, preceding the cast 2 seconds earlier. In fact, I could predict everything in here. Maybe I'm a psychic? Or maybe I just watched too many easy shows!!

Yes, this is a well meaning show, however completely tacky. The characters are so not new. The storytelling is deadly the same, as if we have dumb minds, or no minds at all. Even the house of the lead character assures that the American houses in the American sitcoms look the same since 50 years!

Now this show got me admiring another 2 sitcoms I do hate. One is (Grounded for Life) simply because it had a flashback technique to narrate. And the other is (Everybody Hates Chris) for using a voice-over. As you see, "different", even slightly, got nothing to do with this show!

I want to ask the laughing audience how do you sleep at night?! With shows like this, the recurrent, outrageously fake, laughing makes me feel how this is an indirect nasty propaganda for lying! Yes, it is like so exposed subliminal message to transform you into a perfect idiot who lies on himself, saying all the time as a robot: "This is funny. This is good" while it's obviously NOT! And they said that only the communist nations used media to brainwash their people?!, well, at least communism is gone, but not these systems!

Save the cute (Alexa Vega), the cast is what hell will be in the other life. (David Cassidy)??? What ever happened to his face?!! This is freaky. He looks like someone wearing a Halloween mask. The rest is killing me. The worst thing I can say about them is that they all look like creatures that came from usual, foolish, sitcom (How Horrible!!).

I wanted something NOT TRITE, to find a factor, rather an antique shop, for all the sitcoms' triteness. It got me imagining a sitcom by the title of (Soul & The Demons), where a kind guy named (Soul) gets to live with an evil family named (The Demons) that forces him to watch American sitcoms!

PS: I wish from God to have a sitcom where the door of the house is on the right side of the screen, not the left. Just to feel a change!

"Ruby" Makes Me Want to Retch!

[ldavis-2 · 1/10 · 22 July 2009]

Wasted a half-hour of my life last night on this "comedy". As if the whole premise wasn't bad enough, the set-up was awful. This girl shows up, and informs the has-been pop star that she's his kid, and he just accepts it! Not only accepts it, but dumps the kid on the brother he has been feuding with for the last 20 years, who also accepts her! Makes sense to me, too!

The hook is that the brothers were a big Wham!-like pop act 20 years ago. Their "video" has them don these silly wigs and lip-sync to this retched song while a girl (now married to one of the brothers) does her best Tawny Kitaen. The "video" is so lame, they don't even bother to make the brothers and the girl look 20 years younger! The brother who gets dumped on, now pushing SUVs, longs for the good old days, while his son (a graduate of The I'm SO Hot School of Acting) wants to be Kurt Cobain when he grows up. And naturally, Ruby, who can't carry a tune, has delusions of musical greatness.

David ought to be ashamed for whoring out a sorry episode of his life. And Shaun -- I just want to kick myself for having the biggest crush on you! You're not only a sell-out, you're a hack! And you weren't even that good of a singer!

Just plain bad a piece of fluff

[CKCSWHFFAN · 4/10 · 22 September 2009]

Keeping in mind this show is supposed to be for teenagers. Teenagers who can NOT think or see bad acting & ideas.

I have watched some of the episodes because I am Partridge Family fan since its debut 39 years ago.

So, the Cassidy Brothers are behind this. They did NOT think too much about plot or even cast names. David & Patrick characters are David & Patrick. Shaun produced & Ryan works on the set. I think ABC Family got a cheap deal using David as they name in it.

You get tired in about 2 seconds of the oldest teenage boy attracted to his cousin. That should have STOPPED after the characters were established as family members.

Not much acting required for this show. The characters have no depth. Same facial expressions.

We get, David as a former rock star.

Even the episode where Shirley guest starred. Worth to see her, David & real life son Patrick on screen together.

The young woman who plays Ruby Alexa Vega , cute but not very talented. You forget her in a minute.

The other son, slightly over weight with an occasional smart line. Gee, I think they need to work a lot harder if they were trying to get a clone of Danny. He had timing.

Unless you are a fan of David or Shaun's & want to see their work do NOT bother with this light weight fluff.