John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, Kristen Wiig

Singer Dewey Cox overcomes adversity to become a musical legend.

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74% liked it

137 critics

R, 1 hr. 36 min.

Directed by: Jake Kasdan

Release Date: December 21, 2007

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DVD Release Date: April 8, 2008

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  • September 8, 2009
    An uneven comedy that manages to be more hit than miss. Walk Hard has the funniest songs since Team America: World Police, but this kind of absurd comedy isn't perfect for everyone. If you don't laugh within the first 5 minutes, then do yourself a favor and turn the movie off. Th...( read more)ere's not going to really be much variation of the basic formula.

    There are lots of guest cameos (The "Beatles") were great, and some pretty darn funny spoofs of biopics. Walk Hatd isn't the cleverest movie, but it gets a lot of laughs at the expense of more serious movies that came before.
  • July 21, 2009
    Walk Hard, like numerous parodies, had the potential to be a funny movie. Somehow, somewhere along the way this became a big miss. It has a few moments of laughter, but mostly chuckles at best. The story feels a little long winded and flat. John C. Riley's best assests are as...( read more) a complementary character and fails to carry a movie on his own. The music in this was surprisingly entertaining as was the scenes with the Beatles. Overall this isn't a very good movie. If you can endure some painful moments, you might be able to pull a little humor out of it.
  • April 27, 2009
    Still great and greatly over looked.

    I loved the fuck out of this movie. A great send up of all the musician themed movies that take themselves too seriously.
  • March 22, 2009
    Fun move, alot of great cameos.
  • March 15, 2009
    A definite parody of Walk the Line, which has some shining moments and some not so shining moments. John C Reilly, normally the sidekick, holds his own in the lead role of Dewey Cox. The music is actually fairly good, there's some very classic scenes and for me, I found it more...( read more) humorous thinking back on it than while actually watching. The shining moments seem to stick in your head after the film is over. 'The wrong kid died'.... LOL!
  • November 14, 2009
    Funny Funny. Well place mischief and humor thru-out. Great parody of Ray and Walk the Line.
  • November 9, 2009
    luckily a few great laughs that just suprise you, when 'the silly' becomes Too Much all of a sudden, y`know.

    Please you should watch 'Walk the Line' (Jaquien Phenix) befor viewing so-as not too ruin that picture (if only a picture it may well have been)

    But this a spin off...( read more) it is and and in typical bad taste. Covers the story of a life of a hard luck child with turbulent parental guidence throughout his growth to stardom as a rocker in the 50`s and 60`s, through ups and downs ins and outs of touring the States with the star of the time while getting taught the terrible lesson of life leaving a jelous wife at home (jelous of the good life after playing mentle base for a country tune writer) with screaming children.
  • November 8, 2009
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  • November 8, 2009
    This movie.... was ridiculous to say the least. Seriously, I like crazy random comedies just as much as the next guy, but this one really took it way too far. The jokes were more stale than anything, but still gave me a good laugh every once in a while. Seriously they should have...( read more) gone with different writers. One thing that I really hated about this movie was their portrayal of Elvis, those asswipes picked a terrible actor that didn't look anything like him and did a terrible impression. Though the ending scenes were better, the rapping scenes were just plain crap. Not only that, it was just too damn long.
  • October 27, 2009
    There are some very funny moments, but the movie is too long and often just too over-the-top for its own good.

Critic Reviews


January 4, 2008
Claudia Puig, USA Today

Cox rocks. full review

December 21, 2007
Pete Hammond, Maxim

After 'Superbad' and 'Knocked Up', Judd Apatow has now pulled off the movie equivalent of the Triple Crown. full review

December 21, 2007
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

Writer-producer Judd Apatow, star John C. Reilly and director Jake Kasdan eviscerate the genre gleefully. full review

December 21, 2007
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

Walk Hard is funniest in its first half, when you're not quite sure where it's going, and drags in the second, by which time you realize it's going nowhere. full review

December 21, 2007
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

In a season loaded with serious films about war and loss, there's bound to be an audience out there looking for some undemanding holiday laughs. full review

December 21, 2007
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Instead of sending everything over the top at high energy, like Top Secret or Airplane!, they allow Reilly to more or less actually play the character, so that, against all expectations, some scenes a... full review

December 20, 2007
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Walk Hard is 100 minutes of fun, and for pure, uncomplicated enjoyment, it's the movie to see right now. full review

December 19, 2007
Armond White, The New York Press

Walk Hard is Apatow's undistinguished -- in fact, shamelessly derivative -- contribution to the mockumentary genre. full review

December 16, 2007
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

The film gets some mileage out of mocking fatuous biopic conventions. full review

December 13, 2007
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

The tricky thing about parody movies is that the jokes get old fast and they're hit-and-miss. Walk Hard is guilty on both counts. How lucky that when the jokes do hit, they kick major ass. full review

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Comments


  • perfectgentlemn
    July 20, 2008
    Ultimate Stupid Funny, Great movie, Woke up laughing a day later, still.... LOL, "Get outta here, You Don't want any part of this..." lol... Oh but you will, Watch this movie, it's Ridiculous. ;-) Enjoy
  • YLOWBSTARDreturns
    June 28, 2008
    I can't believe Jack White was ELVIS! He looked so... ALIVE.
  • TheDemonHunter
    January 14, 2008
    wish that stupid banner would sod off, I like to type/hit buttons without a naked pic of Dewey Cox spinning down into my screen but I can't! Put a decent banner up already and one that doesn't annoy!

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