Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
Directed by Jake Kasdan
Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.
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It plays into almost every trope that parodies like Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story satirize without an iota of self-awareness, coming across as high-budget condescension geared towards playing the hits for doe-eyed fans stuck in the 80s.
Walk Hard lampooned it nearly 20 years ago (“Dewey Cox has to think about his entire life before he plays!”) but the music biopic limped on at its most formulaic…
Completely inured to Walk Hard‘s critiques, Michael indeed begins with MJ thinking about his entire life before he plays, waiting to go onstage to promote the release of 1987’s Bad and thinking back to his childhood in Gary, Indiana.
I used to believe that Walk Hard, Jake Kasdan and Judd Apatow’s pitch-perfect parody of movies like Ray and Walk the Line, should have killed the conventional musical biopic.
It falls all over itself reveling in any number of biopic tropes that one wonders if he watched Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story back in 2007 and thought Jake Kasdan, Judd Apatow and John C. Reilly meant for audiences to take their low budget satirical comedy seriously.
…ones that hit every beat that Jake Kasdan’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story brilliantly skewered years ago…
Zack schleps away at 'Bean-n-Gone' under the distrustful eye of Mr. Surya (Gerry Bednob, "The 40 Year Old Virgin," "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story").
The supporting cast is a lot of fun, with Craig Robinson (2007's " Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story "), as the begrudgingly henpecked Delaney; Smith regular Jason Mewes, as talented, uninhibited camera performer Lester; and real-life porn star Katie Morgan, attempting to go legit and doing a bang-up job as stripper-turned-actress Stacey, sticking out.
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Big question: Can this comedy, produced by Judd Apatow ("Superbad") and featuring Apatow regulars like Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd and Bill Hader, re-establish Apatow's power after the lame "Drillbit Taylor" and box office flop "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story"?
Forgetting Sarah Marshall is the latest film from the Judd Apatow team, and it's a fantastic return to form after such near-misses as Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and such whiffs as Drillbit Taylor.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall finds Apatow back on form, after the recent disappointments of Drillbit Taylor and, to a lesser extent, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
While I tend to really like his films, it amazes me that people don’t remember bitter disappointments like Drillbit Taylor and downright bombs like Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
After a year which saw comedy giant Judd Apatow score with Knocked Up, Superbad, and the highly underrated Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, 2008 sure started off with a stumble.
Jake Kasdan (director of "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story") puts the audience squarely the film's suburban Illinois setting even if the movie was shot in California.
However, director Jake Kasdan (“Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story”) keeps things moving at a steady clip instead of letting scenes drag on and on.
Director Jake Kasdan has a flair for comedy, proving just as much with 2007's overlooked gem " Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ," and his know-how on this front at least allows "Bad Teacher" to garner a handful of laughs.
Directed by Jake Kasdan (“Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story”) and written by Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg (“The Office”), “Bad Teacher” is the “Bridesmaids” of middle-school, hot-teacher movies.
To solve the problem, writers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg ( Year One ) and director Jake Kasdan ( Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ) change the perspective.
Director Jake Kasdan ("Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story") has pulled together a fine, kooky supporting cast.