Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Reviews and Ratings



  • November 21, 2009
    This is messed up movie 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
    lucu nih... xixixixi
  • 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.
  • October 27, 2009
    this film should be rubbish but it had me cracking up. it's a complete rip off of 'walking the line' but underneath it rips all of these musicians who claim to have had it hard when it's all bollocks. some really funny stuff.
  • October 25, 2009
    Man this movie was FUNNY!!!!!
  • October 23, 2009
    this movie was so funny and so stupid
  • October 12, 2009
    It started really well, I enjoyed John C. Reilly's brilliant and funny impression of Joaquin in Walk the Line, especially the part with his brother at the beginning, but this film soon spirals out of control into a joke that went too far. The joke goes too far, its always sad t...( read more)o see a comedy loose its cool, this could have been a really funny film, if they'd only cut about an hour from the end. Although, the movie jem in this bad bling of a comedy is Paul Rudd as John Lennon, he's spot on with the odd word which makes it even funnier. Unfortunately his performance was framed by a terrible Paul & Ringo.
  • October 8, 2009
    This movie exceeded well beyond my low expectations. It kept me laughing the whole way through with some VERY funny jokes interspersed b/w mediocre and flat ones. Not as lame as I'd first thought judging from the commercials and subject.
  • September 29, 2009
    trippy cartoon beatles
  • September 26, 2009
    One of the best spoofs in the last decade!
  • September 23, 2009
    Jake Kasdan's outrageous parody of musical biopics is a tasteless, profane, over-the-top affair that somehow manages to be fairly believable as it follows the contours of films like "Ray" (2004) and "Walk the Line" (2005). John C. Reilly is Dewey Cox, a young man from the South w...( read more)ho played with machetes as a child, much to the detriment of his brother one day, whom he accidentally afflicts with what the doctor calls "A particularly bad case of someone being cut in half." Immediately, Dewey's father (Raymond J. Barry from "Born on the Fourth of July," among others) takes to saying "The wrong kid died," as his dead son's promise is now snuffed out. Nevertheless, Dewey's mother (Margo Martindale) remains as supportive as she can be. Dewey grows up a bit and a concert in junior high school (Reilly plays himself at age 14) ends particularly badly in a violent riot and a religious furvor over what the pastor calls "the Devil's music." I dunno, it sounded rather innocent to me. Practically run out on a rail, Dewey and his childhood sweetheart (Kristen Wiig) must improvise. No matter: Dewey has a future outside of this podunk town anywho. Dewey and his young wife take to the suburbs and attempt to find themselves, though his wife says "You're never gonna make it in the music businessness" even after he has a no. 1 hit song on the radio. Dewey cycles through styles and time periods, addictions and rehabilitation clinics, gag after gag. Along the way, he meets singer/musician Darlene (Jenna Fischer from "The Office") and they get married, only to realize that they've let Dewey's previous marriage become an afterthought - he wasn't divorced. Why can't a famous person be married to two women at the same time? Throughout the years, Dewey's supported by longtime bandmates (including Chris Parnell and Tim Meadows). His style changes from Johnny Cash-esque to Bob Dylan-esque (Why don't the press ever ask Dylan why he copies Cox instead of the other way around?). Various celebrities pass through Dewey's field of vision, including Elvis (Jack White of the White Stripes; looked like Giovanni Ribisi to me) and the Beatles (played by Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Jason Schwartzman and Justin Long!). The film features a "bad trip" on acid complete with animation. The film was directed by Jake Kasdan ("Zero Effect," "The TV Set"), who co-wrote with Judd Apatow ("The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up"). They pretty much have a go-for-broke mentality, with off-color humor, in-jokes and political incorrectness up the ying-yang. Perhaps the best things that can be said for this film is that it is very well-made, copying convincingly the look of the biopics it lampoons, while Reilly embodies a potentially great musician who was a has-been in record time, only to recover. That, and the film is very, very funny.



    NOTE: The Extended Edition runs 120 minutes on DVD.
  • September 22, 2009
    A nice parody - unfortunately not very funny but extra points for Reilly performing the songs.
  • September 18, 2009
    Hilarious and very clever send up of musician biopics. The casting is awesome, the performances good, but where the film really shines is the attention to detail (to both the time periods and the cliches being spoofed). It's a little too over the top at times, but overall a very ...( read more)well done spoof.
  • September 16, 2009
    Shining non-sequitur humor nailing all the jokes about the musical phenom who succumbs to the deadly pleasures of rock & roll hedonism then joining that with by far more absurd, over-the-top antics. Smart and clever parody, strong original music and a winning self-mocking awarene...( read more)ss round out an altogether entertaining from beginning to end send-up.
  • September 12, 2009
    John Reilly is fucking funny!
  • September 9, 2009
    Although a bit long, this movie is hilarious. John C. Reilly at his best. This movie, obviously, is making fun of legendary singer Johnny Cash and his experimental drug abuse. Really funny. I give it a B+
  • September 7, 2009
    Sorry. I thought this was just dumb.
  • September 6, 2009
    I think this looks so stupied
  • August 30, 2009
    I'm starting to think that you don't believe in me... Of course I believe in you, I just know that you're gonna fail...
  • August 30, 2009
    Fairly predictable, warm, fuzzy, good music, few laughs here and there. John C.Reily is marvellous as always and the amount of equally awesome actors that show up utterly out of the blue is pretty impressive. I'd recommend it to anyone up for a wee giggle and not too much in th...( read more)e way of brain abuse :)
  • August 28, 2009
    When it comes to music no legend is bigger than Dewey Cox, whom America loves...IT'S A MUSICAL BIOPIC SPOOF! But behind the music is the up-and-down-and-up-again story of a musician whose songs would have an effect on the people. From the time he was a boy Cox beds with 411 women...( read more), weds three times, bears 22 kids and 14 stepkids, stars in his own '70s TV show, befriends everyone from Elvis to The Beatles to a chimp. And he, of course, gets addicted to (and then kicks) every drug known to man and earns the love of longtime backup singer Darlene.

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    Directed by Jake Kasdan, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story features great acting performances from the following cast:
    1.) John C. Reilly (Dewey Cox)
    2.) Jenna Fischer (Darlene Madison)
    3.) Tim Meadows (Sam)
    4.) Kristen Wiig (Edith)
    5.) Jack White (Elvis Presley)

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    Walk Hard is a good re-telling of the career of the American music legend Dewey Cox as it dramatically covered his personal life, relationships, and struggles well - even though it's actually a work of fiction! As a rock music listener and fan, I fully understood the spoof of musical biopics (Walk The Line among of them) as if it's like I'm reading a biography so I could see how Cox rose to fame and fortune. Nice to see the great acting performances here, including our leading star John C. Reilly in his titular role, who does every music genre from country to glam rock. As a fictional all-American icon, Cox was famous and as big as Elvis, and he really did Walk Hard to keep his life strong. And, yes, the humor is at its funniest, so I might as well watch the film again so I could catch them all on my next viewing.
  • August 23, 2009
    So absurd and gives you without pretension, the satisfaction of having a sense of humor. A parody film easy to watch indeed, but also catching. I wasn't sure at first if John C. Reilly had everything that it takes to carry the whole movie on his shoulders and I sure underestimate...( read more)d him. A 44 years old man playing a teenager is hilarious.
  • August 21, 2009
    Echoes of Walk th Line.
  • August 20, 2009
    Stupid, yet entertaining.
  • August 13, 2009
    Maybe,Maybe,Maybe,Maybe,Maybe i'll see this,but i dont know...
  • August 4, 2009
    It had its moments, but it also had some of the most inane story arcs I have ever seen. A lot of treading water. Reilly did well, but Apatow needs to get a dose of reality...Kevin Costner-style.
  • July 30, 2009
    Really funny, and random.
  • July 24, 2009
    This movie was absolutely fascinating. The music is incredibly original, despite being rip offs of rock music subgenre staple songs. The actors are fantastic, the expressions and professionalism of this movie make it hilarious and still maintain a pretty thick storyline.
  • July 23, 2009
    I LAUGHED MY ASS OFF I THIS MOVIE, JOHN C.RILEY I ALSO LIKED IN BOOGIE NIGHTS.
  • 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.
  • July 19, 2009
    This is a awesome watch funny as all hell LoL
  • July 18, 2009
    Enjoyable and humourous spoof film of Ray, Walk the Line, Etc, and making a good laugh out of the rock and roll / drug and sex years.
  • July 14, 2009
    I couldnt sit thru it!!! I had to turn it off!!!!!
  • July 5, 2009
    hahahahah! but i watched it on HBO. which they edited all r-18 stuff! but its ok. its still funny!
  • July 3, 2009
    it was silly ,and not funny...
    i cant believe i actually watched this movie!!
  • July 2, 2009
    HILARIOUS. "You don't want any of THIS SHIT!"
  • July 2, 2009
    It wasn't horrible, there's some laughable content. Entertaining music.
  • July 1, 2009
    inspirational for me coz it shows how somebody change when he has everything but still he cant be complete for the thing that can only make him complete is the love from his father!and i love the soundtrack and the cutting in half by a machete.!1haha!never thought that a machete ...( read more)can be that sharp!!hahaha
  • June 30, 2009
    it was pretty funny.... hehehe.... i never though that i would like it in the first place... but boy was i wrong! it was pretty damn wild, hilarious and kinda true in a way... i enjoyed the movie! and i think that the cast is damn funny! you have to watch this...!!! it starts rea...( read more)lly offbeat but it's pretty darn hilarious!!! watch it guys!!!
  • June 28, 2009
    hahaha..mmg siot cite ni..tp sedey jgk..besh la lyn..=)
  • June 22, 2009
    It had moments of inspiration but the movie is surprisingly flat. The movie is a parody of all bio-pics, especially "Walk the LIne". The problem with some of the movie with me was that they had Reilly play a little to over the top at times. He also channeled Will Ferrell a little...( read more) to much because there was way to many scenes of him just in his underwear for my taste. The cameos are fun and I liked the way everyone repeated who they were. It is just sad that the movie had nowhere to go after the first 45 minutes.
  • June 22, 2009
    Very funny spoof of all too serious musical biography films

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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Summary