Dewey Cox Skewers Musical Biopics

Musical biopics have become all the rage over the past few years, with late superstars such as Ray Charles and Johnny Cash each getting the star studded treatment. The problem with these movies is that they’ve begun to feel a bit formulaic. You know, there are the hardscrabble youth scenes, the rise to the top, the self-destructive behavior, the tumultuous relationships, and the late-career redemption. It’s a genre that’s rife for spoofing, and spoofing is just what Judd Apatow and company did with Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

The movie features John C. Reilly as Dewey Cox, a superstar musician who’s ripped off perhaps every major musician of the last 40 years. It’s a crazy, epic comedy, one that combines slapstick, goofball comedy with spot-on parody to create a winner of a movie. With cameos from tons of amazing comic actors and a soundtrack that you’ll be surprised to find stuck in your head for days, Dewey Cox is definitely worth checking out.

This entry was posted by Adam on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 at 3:59 pm