Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

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I don't ever hear anyone talk about this movie but it's actually a pretty great parody of "Walk the Line". John C. Reilly kills it as Dewey Cox a young kid who was cast away from his family and goes down as a music legend. The comedy beats you over the head with the lines and it's intentional and there are plenty of laugh out loud moments. The music is actually really quality too and adds to making it a great comedy rather than a good one. It shows the whole life of Dewey Cox and I for sure recommend it. It even had a nice Jonah Hill cameo that I forgot about.

This movie is god awful. It is a failed attempt at making fun of Walk the Line and contains no substance, but rather just 'shock value'. Everything said, done, and shown is simply for shock value and has no place in the storyline. Within the first 30 minutes, there were multitudes of the 'f-bomb' at unnecessary times, ridiculous references to marijuana and cocaine, naked men walking around and a flacid * displayed on the screen for five seconds. It's simply a movie to watch if you want to see a director attempt to make his crowd shocked.. NOT for someone looking for a GOOD movie. I walked out thirty minutes into this movie and saw 'I Am Legend'. Such a good decision.. Save your money and see something else.

I thought this would not be funny so i put it off, but two things made me reconsider. The first one was Judd Apatow produced it. Then the second I saw thatit was a spoof. I just got over an obsession over popstar and I thought I should then give this a chance. Let me just say, I laughed through 95 percent of it.The movie knew when to be funny and when to be serious.

I can't believe it took ten years for me to finally see Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Was it worth the wait? Probably not. This has Judd Apatow's fingerprints all over it, having co-written the script and served as producer. Long story short....overall it's awfully silly. I was hoping for a little bit more substance or bite, but that isn't to say it's awful. Walk Hard has some very funny moments, and that would include the Beatles segment which I found quite amusing. I'll admit quite a bit of the music was actually pretty good, including the duets with Darlene (Jenna Fischer). On the other hand, the grand finale number was a big flop in my book, and did we really need all those scenes with Dewey in his underwear? Fans of Judd Apatow's "sensibility" may like this more than I did.

For a long time John C. Reilly has been fairly known for playing side characters and supporting roles in movies such as Boogie Nights. Gangs of New York, and an Oscar nominated performance in Chicago. Then he becomes known for doing comedies such as Talladega Nights. Now John C. Reilly had a chance to have a starring role in Walk Hard. He takes advantage of this role as he shows the funny side of doing an imitation of music biopics such as Walk the Line, Ray, and I'm Not There. In a weird way, it is interesting to see a comedy version of a music biopic. Anyone who watches should not take this seriously at all. It is like other spoof movies such as Spaceballs, Airplane!, and Blazing Saddles. It also belongs in with other Frat Pack comedies such as Talladega Nights and Superbad. Producer Judd Apatow has been behind many good, fun comedies.

I thought the film was really entertaining, though not everything was good. Meadows is hilarious, bringing an excellent element to his character. Unfortunately, the full male frontal nudity wasn't funny, but rather just disturbing. With the exclusion of that scene and a better built-up ending, the film would have had a much stronger punch for me. I would like to add that I had no expectation going into the film. I was curious, but did not expect good or bad things from it. I was overall pleasantly surprised. I don't know if I would recommend the film to people, but it is good for some quick laughs. Overall rating - C+

The songs are great. So just sit back, close your eyes, ignore the dialogue and what else is going happening on the screen, and wait for the music. The rest of the movie is just awful. Maybe I'm too old for Judd Apatow, since I find a lot of his movies very juvenile, and this movie is about as juvenile as it gets (but with actors too old to be doing this). And though I have seen some "juvenile" flicks that are funny, I did not find one thing funny, or even clever, about this movie. The jokes were forced, the dialogue seemed something out of a Ma and Pa Kettle movie, and every single stereotype came across as not funny at all. I also thought, as some did, that the casting was wrong. Not that I do not like John Reilly, but lately he's been in some real bombs (Step Brothers comes to mind). John and Judd: You can do better.