Rating of
3/4
Run, don't walk, to see Dewey Cox
kcvidkid - wrote on 05/19/08
This was the last movie I wanted to watch, but once again, I would have missed a nearly great comedy.
At times, "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" seemed like a parody in the vein of "Airplane" or "Scary Movie". But most of the time it was much smarter and funnier than those, even though it was uneven, at its best when it reached far (young Dewey slicing his brother in half with a machete) and at its worst when it took the typical route and obvious jokes fell flat.
There's a great pedigree in this one, one cog in the massive Judd Apatow wheel that's steamrolling through the movies these days. He's becoming a poor man's George Clooney, filling his movies with all his friends: the cameos here are plentiful and hilarious.
One thing that seems consistent in the movies he's written, produced and directed is his fearlessness of being crude. Often there is frank, sexual humor (and male frontal nudity). But where he differs from any number of comedies is that the movies don't revolve around that; rather, they are only a small part of a well-written story with plenty of other humorous subjects.
On the surface, "Walk Hard" seems to be a spoof of musican biopics such as "Walk the Line", but I'd mainatin that it stands on its own merits, succeeding in the areas where it is original.
