Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Pros: some incredibly funny moments, Jenna Fisher, John C. Reilly
Cons: a bit drawn out, takes some knowledge of rock pop culture to appreciate

If you like Jenna Fisher (better known as Pam from The Office) and want to see more of her or enjoyed Superbad or Knocked Up, then you definitely should not be missing out on Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. It’s probably ...

Pros: moments of brilliance, lots of lesser laughs
Cons: inconsistent, mostly derivative of one film, two rewrites short of ready

Walk Hard is the latest release from the spoof industry - which gave us the Airplane!, Naked Gun, Hot Shots and Scary Movie franchises - which then barfed up Epic Movie and is now hungry for something new. The problem here is that music biopics, while ...

Pros: some familiar actors and story line
Cons: just not that funny

It's a running joke between my husband and I that, when we rent a movie that really is a chore to watch or becomes so boring, gross, predictable or just plain dumb, that the first one to hate it pipes up with the phrase: "That's 2 hours of my life I'll ...

Pros: Good songs, funny moments
Cons:

the Parodies ruined the film, also Eddie Vedder's presence was irritating to say the least

the plotDewey Cox is a rock music icon...in this film anyway. His career began somewhere around the birth of popular rock and roll music in the mid 1950s. His childhood ...

Pros: The Music. The lampooning. Random gratuitous penii
Cons: nope...can’t think of a one.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (and its uncut version American Cox) watches like a how to of the lampooning world. After watching the Oscars for the past few years and seeing movies about Johnny Cash and Ray Charles that were made to ...

Pros: Replicas, music, could have had potential
Cons: SNL cast, bad acting, stupid spoof of an awesome legend

I am easily amused, and do not need very much to get my sides splitting. That is what I expected from Walk Hard ~ The Dewey Cox Story, the recent spoof of Johnny Cash's Walk The Line. While I knew from the previews that it would be ...

Pros: Kasdan's Direction, Script, Raunchy Humor, Look, Period, Music, & Cast.
Cons: Leaves You Wanting for More & Scenes That Got Cut.

Throughout the history of popular music, there's been icons who ruled the world. Sinatra, Elvis, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, U2, 2Pac, Biggie, Nirvana, Radiohead, and many others. Yet, none of them are as big or as powerful as a man who claimed to have ...

Pros: Great performances across the board
Cons: Not a WHOLE lotta laughs

At the age of five, a machete fight changed the life of Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly). Everything he has done, his father (Raymond J. Barry) was still furious that the wrong kid died. As he soon became a famous singer, he wound up having lots of kids with ...

Pros: A few really funny songs
Cons: I didn't laugh that much

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is a parody of Walk the Line from one of the writers behind The 40 Year-Old Virgin and Superbad. While it is at times funny, it is also very over the top and silly, plus it features full frontal ...

Pros: Reilly's performance, familiar cameos, sharp riff off other musician biographical flicks
Cons: Not all scenes are in the movie from trailer, movie overdoes the nudity

As I spoke to a co-worker about movies we were going to see, he mentioned that he was going to see I Am Legend, which is currently raking in the dough at the American box office. When I mentioned that I was going see Walk Hard, he uttered an audible ...

Pros: Great comedic timing from John C Reilly. Jokes that pack a wallop.
Cons: The film can't sustain its rapid fire pace.

I'm gonna use the old compare and contrast technique in order to kick off my review of "Walk Hard." I liken the script for "Walk Hard" to the script for "Kingpin." The humor isn't mapped out, it sneaks up on you. Sometimes, the punch lines have ...

Pros: SNL writers contributing to the humor.
Cons: SNL writers trying a little too hard to make it funny.

This Biopic spoof takes a look at the life of Dewey Cox (Reilly), a man who lives in the monstrous shadow of his older brother whom he had accidentally killed in boyhood by slicing him in half with a machete. As pennance, Cox realized he must become ...

Pros: John C. Reilly in a fully realized comic extravaganza.
Cons: Songs could have been funnier. Too long by 15 minutes.

I hope John C. Reilly doesn't give up on being a "serious" actor...because with his role as Dewey Cox in WALK HARD...he's seriously funny. He showed a knack for being a goofball in TALLEDAGA NIGHTS (and frankly, as far back as BOOGIE NIGHTS)...but in ...

Pros: Absolutely none!
Cons: undermines everything good about watching movies, SLOOOOOW!

A rarity it has been to finally find a movie that not only became a chore to watch, but to watch forceably. Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story, (starring John C. Reilly as Dewey Cox), is a fictitious slap-stick biography about a man's life and the life he ...

Pros: Funny in parts.
Cons: Male nudity, Slow at times.

I just got back from seeing this movie with my cousin and girlfriend. A quick synopsis and my opinion follows. Dewey Cox's life has always been a troubled one. His father secretly thought that Dewey was inferior to his brother. His brother was what ...