Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Jake Kasdan
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Actor: David Krumholtz, Jenna Fischer, John C. Reilly, Raymond J. Barry, Tim MeadowsDirector: Jake Kasdan
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Uta Briesewitz
Composer: Michael Andrews
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-08
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- AC-3; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; Dubbed; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
DVD Reviews of Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story (Two-Disc Special Edition)
DVD Review: Dewey Cox:The Story On "His" Story....
Summary: 4 Stars
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
(2 Disc Unrated Widescreen Edition)
(8.0/10)
Because of my limited income, it's rare these days
for me to buy a new release over $15, but for some
reason spending it on a blind-buy of this flix seemed
right at time. I mean, I'm a huge fan of musical biopics
as well as it's parodies of them like with the classic
This Is Spinal Tap...how could this go wrong?
Well, in ways it did & in ways it didn't. John C. Reilly
(mostly of Boogie Nights & Talladega Nights fame)
stars as Dewey Cox, a country/rock singer who starts
in the 50's and metamorphoses with each changing decade.
In his travels, he runs into many classic performers of
this time, most notably Elvis, The Beatles, even Buddy Holly.
Even makes you think Johnny Cash shoulda been around,
but he's not and with good reason. This movie basically parodies him. Think Walk The Line meets Airplane....just not nearly as good
in either department. So why the decent rating? Because
this film hits levels of such eye-rolling, flat humor it actually
as a whole turns out funny. Just don't expect to laugh out loud on
either version (the R version is 96 minutes long and
the Unrated is a whopping 120), because this movie's humor is
so low-key, that it seems it's supposed to be a joke for only
the people who made it rather than it's audience. But when you
hear a barrage of lame jokes in a row like this film provides,
it makes you laugh due to the consistency of all the attempts.
It's strange, but true.
Surprisingly, this film wrangled in alot of actors, from current
musicals stars to about every comedic actor who's worked
on television in the past five years. There's very few faces
you won't recognize in this one. Well shot & audio great, it
definitely looks/sound of the quality of say Ray or A Mighty Wind,
but unlike Wind, the jokes are more in your face and twice
as less clever. While crude humor fans might flock to this,
they might find the jokes too weak or plain just not funny.
But combined with the songs they might be more forgiving, because
it's the music, be it not that great either on it's own, that
saves this film from a complete crash.
Reilly sings and plays guitar on every song, no vocal
replacement singer here, and if you found songs from
Spinal Tap like "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight"
clever and amusing, Dewey's tracks like
"(Mama) You Got To Love Your.....Man" equally
entertaining. It's the music that carries the film into wanting
you to see more, helping narrate as it goes from decade
to decade. Sure, it's almost as corny as the script itself,
but with Reilly's great vocal delivery (almost like Cash himself),
it gives the movie that little extra clout.
If DVD extras though are a plus to you, this version of the
disc/movie has them in spades. Deleted scenes, full musical
performances, commentaries, documentaries, biographies,
as well as two complete versions of the movie itself, this one
definitely earns it's price in that department.
But don't get me wrong, overall this movie is still stupid. It's just
stupid. The jokes are painfully lame, the acting is completely
over-the-top, and the impersonations are just terrible, but put all
together by Reilly and Superbad/40 Year Old Virgin writer/
producer Judd Apatow, it just seems to work, and at times
work well. Almost like seeing a movie that could be described
as "it's so bad, it's good!". A must for any fan of musical bio-pics
(especially the ones that aired originally as TV Movies), this should
be seen at least once and in it's quote "Unbearably Long Self-
Indulgent 120 Minute Director's Cut", which actually makes the
film more bearable. But be warned, you might want to turn it off
ten minutes into the film when a wigged 43 year old Reilly yells
into the camera "But Mama, I'm only fourteen!", but expecting that
set-up further, you too might be saying the long-running joke of
the film, "I Love Cox!". Yeah, expect ALOT of that.
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