Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

 (2007)


  • User Rating 219 votes
  • Critics Rating 75 critics
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User Reviews

A+ on zingers, C grade everywhere else
Jan 13, 2009
steve.free - yahoo.com
This flick spoofs so many things, it becomes overwhelming. The saving grace is some hilarious dialogue. Catch the skanky lyrics in the duet that Dewey and his new female singer provide. Title: "Let's Duet" (pronounced "do it!"). I like how the... Full review
Walk Hard over to the store and buy this movie!
Dec 20, 2008
zacofthejungle - yahoo.com
Walk Hard is one of the best musicals I have ever seen. I had no idea how good John C. Reilly could sing. I am surprised that the people gave it a C+ and the critics gave it a solid B.... Full review
better than expected
Nov 28, 2008
mrclean513 - yahoo.com
I wasn't really expecting much as the previews didn't do it for me, but this movie, even though over the top for the most part, is pretty funny. It has some classic laugh out loud moments and just when it's getting... Full review
Walk Hard
Nov 07, 2008
kylejhousell - yahoo.com
Walk Hard is a stupid comedy. What this movie is, a mock to the Walk The Line movie. Every joke from struggling musician to getting high with the Beatles is here. John C Orielly is pretty funny as Dewey Cox, with... Full review
Very Funny
Oct 03, 2008
blaisewoods85 - yahoo.com
I thought this was another good Judd Apatow comedy, despite the fact that it didn't do that good at the box office because of its bad time of release. The only part I didn't like is in the hotel room them... Full review
Duh
Sep 28, 2008
jeanette825 - yahoo.com
This movie was so stupid that I don't even have words to describe it! Don't waste your money!!! It was the first time in a long time that I had been to a movie theater and had regretted my choice in... Full review
4 stars
Sep 04, 2008
athlos - yahoo.com
This wasn't over the top hilarious, but it was quite funny, and a really good idea. There are almost constant jokes, so much like a Naked Gun, even if one misses, some other one will score a hit with you.... Full review
A Mild Tug at the Funny Bone
Aug 30, 2008
fjv1966 - yahoo.com
John C. Reily is a fine actor and has displayed a knack for comic parody, and he does a nice job of carrying Dewey Cox. Leave it to Apatow to find the comedic possibilities in Coal Miner's Daughter and Walk the... Full review
An amusing, at times, isatire
Aug 04, 2008
ajsmon - yahoo.com
It's a takeoff on the johnny cash movie. There are a few moments of hilarity. John C. Reilly even has a close up conversation with a man's small penis.... Full review
not too much to write but good stutherff
Jul 26, 2008
chelliegirl71 - yahoo.com
HILARIOUS!!!so funny. cannot wait to see step brothers!Iloved it soo much! this movie couldnot get any funnier.. I love thes two toge... Full review

Critics Reviews

| Apr 27, 2009
The Celebrity Cafe
The best thing about this film was the music.....The casting of Jack Black, Justin Long, Paul Rudd and Jason Schwartzman as the Beatles was not a good move either.....This film is a non-stop train of laughs, with a great soundtrack.....The music carried the film through some of its less funny moments..... ... Full Review
| Jun 24, 2008
The Onion A.V. Club
Walk Hard loves its characters....resent Kasdan and Apatow trying to shove their big, long Cox down audiences' throats....Walk Hard excels....enjoy laughter, joy, great music....Like "Let's Duet" Walk Hard is blessed with a fundamental sweetness and a loving attention to detail..... ... Full Review
| Apr 10, 2008
associatedcontent.com
Now it's finally time for the legend of all legends to be officially recognized for his greatness with a film all about him.....Even at a full grown 14 years old with 12-year-old wife Edith, Dewey Cox was still struggling to make his masterpiece.... ... Full Review
| Apr 08, 2008
iF Magazine
A spoof of musical bio-pics, what the comedy geniuses get is that with any great spoof movie (see AIRPLANE! As moviegoers flock to spoof movie crap like MEET THE SPARTANS and EPIC MOVIE , it takes THE 40-YEAR OLD VERSION creator Judd Apatow and director Jake Kasdan to show how it should really be done with WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY . ... Full Review
| Apr 08, 2008
PopMatters
Of course there's a silver lining to be found in Walk Hard 's box-office demise.....it's still an unabashedly fun comedy.....Along the way, director Jake Kasdan makes sure to riff on every possible music biopic cliché that's ever existed:....Reilly is surrounded by an extraordinary supporting cast....Some jokes fall flat, a bit of momentum is lost just before the '70s period kicks in.... ... Full Review

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Dear Genius Tom: Everything is arranged by lawyers and agents: the order and placement of the credits, whether the name appears by itself or with others, and even how big the lettering on posters is compared with the title. ... Full Article

Jake Kasdan ("The TV Set," "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story") has signed on to direct "Burt Dickenson: The Most Powerful Magician on Planet Earth" for New Line Cinema says The Hollywood Reporter . ... Full Article

Leave it to the folks behind the Grammys (that would be The Recording Academy) to put things right when it comes to movie music. Sure, they have a bazillion categories, but, unlike the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences... ... Full Article

A few nights ago we finally caught Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story on cable, having intentionally missed it last winter. It was exactly the kind of movie we expected it to be... a better version of the Scary Movie/Date... ... Full Article

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