A spoof of musical film biographies, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is funny up to a point.
The idea of having the songwriter Dewey Cox run through every major musical genre and style is funny. Also having Dewey Cox interact with about every famous performer from Buddy Holly to the Beatles is also amusing. It's clever and well acted, the song spoofs are funny although not in the same league as Paul Williams's songs in Ishtar.
What finally kind of wears down the film is all the padding out of the story in the form of a bunch of sex jokes that finally makes the film seem pretty tiresome. The other problem with Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, is that it has a sense of irony about it along with all the parody and as someone once said, irony is not always understood or appreciated by an audience.
John C. Reilly as Dewey Cox is pretty funny.
96 minutes
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