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- 2007
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
- 2007
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
Summary America loves Cox! But behind the singer/songwriter's music is the up-and-down-and-up-again story of a musician whose songs would change a nation. On his rock-and-roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 stepkids, stars in his own '70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a...
Directed By: Jake Kasdan
Written By: Judd Apatow, Jake Kasdan
- 2007
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
- 2007
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
63
7.3
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Summary America loves Cox! But behind the singer/songwriter's music is the up-and-down-and-up-again story of a musician whose songs would change a nation. On his rock-and-roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 stepkids, stars in his own '70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a...
Directed By: Jake Kasdan
Written By: Judd Apatow, Jake Kasdan
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
63
72% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
25% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
63
72% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
25% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
For 45 minutes, it zings along on perfectly pitched overstatement.
The first 30 or so minutes of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story condense the entire Hollywood biopic genre into a sweet chewable tablet. It's the Flintstones vitamin of spoofs.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 61 User Ratings
7.3
70% Positive
43 Ratings
43 Ratings
25% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
5% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 61 User Ratings
7.3
70% Positive
43 Ratings
43 Ratings
25% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
5% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
I have never seen a movie so many times and still enjoyed it as I have this one. It's also one of the most quotable movies I've ever watched. I recommend watching this under more blankets if you get cold, but less blankets if you get hot.
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John C. Reilly, with his homely face and mop of curly hair, has been the movies' second banana of choice since his debut in 1989's "Casualties o War." In the comedy, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," he finally gets a starring role and he rises to the challenge.
While it might not have the laughs-per-minute ratio of the "Naked Gun" movies (but then, what does?), it is a reliable titter generator for boomers and their echo boomlings.
The tunes are so good, you can’t believe the film itself doesn’t amount to more, especially with the rightness of the casting. Still, a few laughs are better than none.
Walk Hard runs down quickly, and suffers further from having the wide-eyed and weightless Reilly as its star.
The film is a saggy, oddly mean-spirited takeoff of "Walk the Line."
In “Lets Duet” one has to wonder how can one song can contain so many double entendres and still sound kind of “normal”? Dewey Cox story contains some excellent writing.
Arguably one of the funniest Parodies’ for a long while. John C Reilly hits the mark perfectly and without will Farrell to inject his own style with a blend of egotistical characters .
Just like “Talladega nights”, “Walk hard” is teeming with subtle gags from start to finish that require more than a basic frame of reference to understand. From some of the negative reviews its clear they were not always understood by everyone. From the “You don’t want to try this” drug routines to the classic “**** in shot” it’s a movie so funny you just wish everyone could “get it”.
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I'm not a fan of farces, and to be honest, I'm not that crazy about John C. Reilly, but one thing you can be sure of, is that when I see Judd Apatow's name attached to something, I'll eventually see it. Walk Hard is a mocumentary about an Elvis Presley type persona, whose music spanned an evolved over a 50 year career. As styles changed, so did Dewey Cox, his outfits, personality, and his music, it was all very clever. I especially liked when he ran into the Beatles at a monastery in India. Walk Hard has some very funny moments, but this film would be nothing without John C. Reilly. It seems like he's in everything these days and most of the roles are quite forgettable, but Dewey Cox is easily his crowning achievement. Reilly is an actor I don't care for, in a style of film I don't care for, yet I was still very amused by the whole thing. The one negative I can give the film, is that is was exceptionally long for this type of film and it spent far too much time on the early stages of his life. The end of the film felt rushed to avoid it becoming a three hour movie, which to me suggests that maybe it should have been split in two. The inherit problem with comedies is that the longer they are, the more tiresome they become. While I enjoyed the first half of the movie a lot, by the end I really couldn't wait for it to end. Farcical comedies are usually way out there and Walk Hard has some of that, but by and large it was an interesting take on fifty years of American pop culture. The film and it's star far exceeded my expectations and for what it was, I was impressed.
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Production Company
Apatow Productions,
Columbia Pictures,
GH Three,
Nominated Films,
Relativity Media
Release Date Dec 21, 2007
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating R
Tagline Life made him tough. Love made him strong. Music made him hard.
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination
