Walk Hard: The
Dewey Cox Story
R
Jake Kasdan's loopy spoof of 'Walk
the Line' is a few years out of date, but still unflinching in the wry parody
of the source material. brilliantly spoofs Johnny Cash, Jim Morrison and Elvis,
and rips on the Beatles. Great move to own to watch again and again. dewey Cox
is an up and coming southern boy who can sing who had a brother he accidentally
killed, and it haunts him for the rest of his days, although as a celebrity he
gains unusual stardom from his bizarre parodies of Johnny Cash songs, which in
his world are his hit songs and there was no Johnny. The supporting cast is
great too, from his high school sweetheart who he has a dozen kids with to his
purebred southern belle second wife, to his hilarious friends in the black Jazz
and Blues scene. 'You don't want to do this, Dewey, you really don't.'
Unabashed silliness comes from riffing ethnic producers to the rise of the
sexual revolution. Dewey's fall and rise again are spot on spoofing of the
whole rock star past his time dig. Funny stuff, it is possibly one of the
funniest flicks of 2007. It's an adult movie in a sense as the humor is really
raunchy and even teenagers would be baffled by the jokes. This is clearly a
favorite for anyone from the Boomer generation and the following X generation,
but not so much for their kids or grandkids. Rater R for a reason. Review by Adam Browne
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