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Article: REILLY RESCUES TOO-LONG 'WALK HARD'.(Living)(Movie review)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- December 21, 2007
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Byline: Carla Meyer, Sacramento Bee
The musical-biography formula is so powerful that it drags down even a spoof of these movies.
The silly fun of "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" starts to wear just as the poverty-fame-drugs-redemption cycle hits the inevitable hippie/psychedelic period. The same-old-story quality that "Walk Hard" sends up begins to apply to it as well.
"Walk Hard" was directed by Jake Kasdan ("Orange County") and written by Kasdan and current Hollywood comedy king Judd Apatow ("Superbad"). Like most comedies attached to Apatow, it seems about 20 minutes too long. And brevity is key to a broad parody.
The first part ...