A comedy based on the story of musician Dewey Cox. America loves larger-than-life musician and songwriter Dewey Cox! But behind the music is the up-and-down-and-up-again story of a musician whose songs would change a nation.
The Truth :
Pull out your senses, place them on a table in front of you. Hit your senses repeatedly with an idiot-hammer for 1hr 25min and you’ll be in a state of mind to enjoy Walk Hard. The movie is an unfunny, uninspired Judd Apatow production. The entire movie is done in a way that makes slugs and other invertebrates look like Nobel Prize winners.
The Verdict :
John C. Reilly is normally very funny, but not in this movie. I have no idea why the critics loved the film, its a comedic disaster from start to finish. I’ve written enough on Walk Hard, why go on? The movie is hardly watchable, the laughs are cheap and old.
Tags: Comedy 2007, John C. Reilly, Worst of 2007
The story of Rock Legend Dewey Cox begins with a rather amusing line by the on-stage organizer: “I’m looking for Cox; anybody seen Cox?” That pretty much sums up the film, with the exception of its only saving grace – the music.
While the film itself is little more than a cheap shot at every other musical biography, it provides viewers with many nostalgic moments of the industry’s greatest artists. Dewey Cox – a fictional icon – is a hard rocker with a penchant for trying out different women; drugs and various styles of music.
His peculiar relationship with Hassidic Jews brings freakish absurdity to the film, but the comedic element of The Dewey Cox story is seriously lacking. The producers of SuperBad and Knocked Up could have done a whole lot better that this slice of mediocrity.
Best left alone
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