Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

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Critics' Reviews

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Time: Richard Schickel
Not since "This is Spinal Tap" have I had such a good time watching amiable idiocy stumble on toward uncertain glory.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Smart and genial satire.Read Full Review »
75
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
The movie walks the line of surreal vulgarity (you will not, repeat not, expect the penis), yet most of it, intentionally, is less nutzoid than your average megaplex genre parody.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
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.Read Full Review »
75
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Reilly is required to walk a tightrope; is he suffering or kidding suffering, or kidding suffering about suffering? That we're not sure adds to the appeal.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
If you want to escape all the deadly serious fare of this pre-awards season, run to Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.Why? Cox rocks. This rowdy spoof of music biopics is silly fun and often hilarious.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
The film is more funny ha-ha than LOL; it’s a smarty-pants satire that mocks and embraces almost every cliché in the biography playbook.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
For those who enjoy the saturation style of humor and appreciate the way in which parody is not pushed too far into the absurd, Walk Hard is not without merit.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
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.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
The tricky thing about parody movies is that the jokes get old fast and they're hit-and-miss. Walk Hard, a spoof of every musical biopic from "Ray" to "Walk the Line," is guilty on both counts. How lucky that when the jokes do hit, they kick major ass.Read Full Review »
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