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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) Rank 4 Reviews
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Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
What SPINAL TAP did to and for the heavy metal documentary, WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY does to and for the musical bio-pic. With a fearless sense of silliness and a savage swipe at the conventions of the genre, it forges a brilliant parody that is ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
dvdfuture.com (R. L. Shaffer)
It was a cold wintery night when Dewey Cox performed in Cleveland at the infamous Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He came up on stage, dressed in a black Mexican-themed jumpsuit, warm and sweaty as though he's done it a thousand times before. He took a quick ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at dvdfuture.com (R. L. Shaffer)
Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
With a fearless sense of silliness and a savage swipe at the conventions of the genre, it forges a brilliant parody that is relentlessly funny and musically acute ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Rolls out a procession of one-liners, toe-tappingly hilarious songs, stunning sight gags and dead-on parodies, all with tear-inducing humor, providing an easy ride to comic bliss. ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
E! Online (Chris Farnsworth)
Walk Hard looks and sounds so much like a real musical biopic that you could make a good drinking game out of naming all the movies that get spoofed. ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at E! Online (Chris Farnsworth)
Beaumont Journal (Danny Minton)
A filthy little pic that seeks to shock and offend it's audience throughout. ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at Beaumont Journal (Danny Minton)
Cleveland Plain Dealer (Clint O'Connor)
The Cinema Source (Michael M. Dance)
Judd Apatow has had just about the best year anyone could ask for. With Knocked Up, which he wrote and directed, and Superbad, which he produced, he changed the way Hollywood thinks about comedies and launched the careers of Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, and ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at The Cinema Source (Michael M. Dance)
OhmyNews.com (Brian Orndorf)
Nothing can prepare the senses for Walk Hard, a parody feature that stumbles around like a maniac, ruthlessly ripping apart the conventions of the musical bio-pic but leaving plenty of breathing room to enjoy a little insanity of its own design. ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at OhmyNews.com (Brian Orndorf)
Beliefnet (Nell Minow)
"Walk Hard" is a spoof with wit as well as heft. ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at Beliefnet (Nell Minow)
Reeling Reviews (Robin Clifford)
Good ensemble acting, a sometimes laugh out loud screenplay...great music and staging and a solid performance by John C. Reilly are all good reasons to see Walk Hard. ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at Reeling Reviews (Robin Clifford)
The Hollywood Reporter
After a barrage of downer movies filled with gore, war and other bleak subject matter, finally there's a holiday release that's all about making spirits bright. ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at The Hollywood Reporter
About.com Hollywood Movies (Rebecca Murray)
Reilly plays Dewey Cox from the age of 14 up to his 70s, singing his way through the decades with all the gusto a 42-year-old actor can bring to the role of a hard-living, guitar-playing musician.
As a child, Dewey spent time hanging out with his best ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at About.com Hollywood Movies (Rebecca Murray)
Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Reilly is well-cast in this hit-and-miss spoof of both rock singers and American social history from 1950 on. ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
About.com (Rebecca Murray)
Apatow proves he knows how to reach audiences with a truly funny film aimed at adult audiences. ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at About.com (Rebecca Murray)
Bullz-Eye.com
W
alk Hard: The Dewey Cox Storyâ is explosively funny and positively maddening. Musical biopics have been begging for a good thrashing, so the movie has an unlimited number of jokes at its disposal. The problem is that the movie careens between âTh ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at Bullz-Eye.com
Oregonian (Mike Russell)
Doesn't produce belly laughs so much as steady smiles of recognition over how accurately it's nailing its target. ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at Oregonian (Mike Russell)
Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
There's an impudent slapstick energy to "Walk Hard," a spoof of rise-and-fall rock 'n' roll biographies. The cookie-cutter clichés of "Ray," "Great Balls of Fire" and "Walk the Line" are ripe for mockery, and writer-producer Judd Apatow, star John C. ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
Reeling Reviews (Laura Clifford)
Kudos to the hilarious dance moves of John C. Reilly and Paul Rudd's fabulously goofy take on John Lennon. ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at Reeling Reviews (Laura Clifford)
EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)
Merrily deconstructs the conventions of the genre with subtlety and (where required) blatant outright mockery. ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)
Film Blather (Eugene Novikov)
I'm glad the artform that Zucker-Abahams-Zucker brought us in the 1980's survives. It's gotten raunchier, meaner, maybe rougher, but it lives on. ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at Film Blather (Eugene Novikov)
Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
Walk Hard isn't merciless (except for maybe one wicked sequence with the Beatles), and that's because it so loves what it's sending up: the pleasure, ego, and sheer exhaustion of what happens behind the music. ...read the complete Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
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