This movie is awsome. I couldent stop laughing at some scenes. I think if you like ranchy comedys like knocked up and superbad, then youll like this as well. If you dont, then prob not. Either way theres probely one scene that you have to laugh at...
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This movie is awsome. I couldent stop laughing at some scenes. I think if you like ranchy comedys like knocked up and superbad, then youll like this as well. If you dont, then prob not. Either way theres probely one scene that you have to laugh at for sure. Awsome movie!

I really like John C. Reilly, and it's nice to see him playing something other than second fiddle in a movie finally...but I didn't think the writing was outstanding. There were some GREAT parts with a lot of little "meh, that was clever, I...
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I really like John C. Reilly, and it's nice to see him playing something other than second fiddle in a movie finally...but I didn't think the writing was outstanding. There were some GREAT parts with a lot of little "meh, that was clever, I guess" moments...I could give a whole **** star just to Jack White's cameo (and cameos there are TONS of...am I the only one who wants Kristen Wiig to star in her own movie already?) as Elvis and the whole scene when he's sort of tried to be talked out of smoking weed.

Walk Hard is a "fake" biopic based on such films as Ray & Walk the Line. It's not a straight up parody; it treats the material as if Dewey Cox really existed and that's one of the reasons this film works.

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Walk Hard is a "fake" biopic based on such films as Ray & Walk the Line. It's not a straight up parody; it treats the material as if Dewey Cox really existed and that's one of the reasons this film works.

The other reason Walk Hard works is John C. Reilly, who plays the oblivious and sometimes infantile title character of Dewey Cox. This isn't a Will Ferrell over-the-top performance. Reilly plays the role mostly as a straight man with a very subtle comical performance that only occasionally ventures into the land of absurdity- and even those times are mostly drug induced. Reilly is so likeable and charismatic that he carries the film and is the glue that holds all the superb supporting players together. It also doesn't hurt that he's a pretty damn good singer!

The movie follows Cox from when he was a little boy and accidentally cut his brother in half with a machete, to his teenage years when he gets married to his first wife, to his adult "experimental" years, all the way to his later "making up for lost time" years. It really is a funny movie that I sat through THREE times because I enjoyed it so much; once for the regular theatrical release, second for the extended director's cut, and a third time with the commentary on. It's even funnier knowing the background stories and insights associated with many of the jokes within the movie.

A great parody, real fun to watch with friends. It's as hilarious as Talladega Nights and as absurd as the better Scary Movies movies (One and Three)