Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Blu-ray, Unrated, 2-Disc Set)

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Blu-ray Details

  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 3 hours, 36 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: April 8, 2008
  • Originally Released: 2007
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh74%

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Total Count: 139

Spilled57%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 302,972
Rating: 8/10 -- The entire film has three repetitive jokes: Dewey cut his brother in half, Dewey can't smell, and he's going to take drugs. So it's kind of amazing how well the film works. Full Review
The Scorecard Review
Sep 5, 2008
It's a cleverly packaged story about a patently phony musician....It's a smarty-pants satire that mocks and embraces almost every cliche in the biography playbook.
New York Times
Dec 21, 2007
The only gale-force laughter in later scenes comes when the hero meets the Beatles. Full Review
Financial Times
Feb 4, 2015
[John C. Reilly is] on of the few serious dramatic actors who has a true gift for comedy. And he can sing, too, 15 monumental spoofs, as clever as they are melodic, that cover the musical waterfront from rockabilly to punk...
Los Angeles Times
Dec 21, 2007
The end of a golden run for Judd Apatow.
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 18, 2008
Rating: 3/6 -- The one area where 'Walk Hard' does manage to hold its own against classics of the genre such as 'This is Spinal Tap' or 'Sweet and Lowdown' is the music, all of which is expertly written and performed. Full Review
Time Out
Jan 18, 2008
[The film] loves what it's sending up: the pleasure, ego, and sheer exhaustion of what happens behind the music. -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly
Dec 21, 2007

Product Description:

Somewhere between pitch-perfect parodies from Christopher Guest and Co. (such as THIS IS SPINAL TAP and A MIGHTY WIND) and slapstick spoofs (such as AIRPLANE and the NAKED GUN) resides the farcical biopic WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY. Taking the critically lauded Johnny Cash biopic WALK THE LINE as its most obvious inspiration, WALK HARD plows its way through every rock star cliché--from drug use and rampant sex to artistic self-indulgence and spiritual redemption--laying waste to all of them with unremitting blasts of brilliantly lowbrow comedy. Written by Judd Apatow and starring Jon C. Reilly in the title role, WALK HARD is a deliciously basic synthesis of any number of ponderous biographical narratives with the poetic raunchiness of Apatow films, such as SUPERBAD and KNOCKED UP, and the most lovably inane aspects of Reilly's role as Cal Naughton Jr. in TALLEDEGA NIGHTS. In fact, fans will have a blast spotting the endless array of cameos by the gifted comic actors who pepper all of those films, including Jonah Hill, Kristin Wiig, Ed Helms, and Jack McBrayer, among many others. Although Reilly (whose comedic chops are nearly on par with his skills as a dramatic player) is hilarious as the hapless rock-&-roll icon Cox, and Jenna Fischer is utterly charming and slyly multifaceted as Darlene Madison (June to Dewey's Johnny), it's the ensemble cast that makes the film so much fun. WALK HARD is the cinematic equivalent of a rock-&-roll jam session: a basic, yet entertaining and fairly interesting idea gets tossed into the creative arena and everyone gets a chance to play along, riff on the idea, and mug for the camera. Though it's certainly no masterwork, fans will relish the good times as much as the actors so clearly do.

Description by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

One of the most iconic figures in rock history, Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly) had it all: the women (over 411 served), the friends (Elvis, The Beatles) and the rock 'n' roll lifestyle (a close and personal relationship with every pill and powder known to man). But most of all, he had the music that transformed a dimwitted country boy into the greatest American rock star who never lived. A wild and wicked send-up of every musical biopic ever made, WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY is gut-busting proof that when it comes to hard rocking, living and laughing, a hard man is good to find.

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