Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan team up to take the swagger out of the traditional music biopic with this look at the troubled life of fictional music legend Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly). Apatow and Kasdan both write and produce, while Freaks and Geeks and Orange County director Kasdan steps into the ...more

From humble beginnings in Springberry, Alabama, fictional rock 'n' roll Goliath Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly) was born, and director Jake Kasdan and co-writer Judd Apatow, a man who dips his hands in every comedic honey pot these days, have crafted an epic movie to match Cox' larger than life persona. With exaggerated satire and a barrage of blink-and-you'll-miss-them jokes, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story pokes fun at the formulaic biopics which run rampant these days, like those of Ray and Walk ...more

At first, Walk Hard might seem no more impressive than the latest installment from the Scary Movie/Date Movie/Epic Movie team. But as this parody of films like Ray and Walk the Line gains momentum, the presence of producer/writer Judd Apatow and his infamous flair for non-sequitur humor begin to shine. The movie nails all the predictable jokes about the musical phenom who succumbs to the deadly pleasures of rock & roll hedonism in pretty obvious terms (though in fairness, it really wouldn't be ...more