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Article: 'Walk Hard': Parody That Verges on Pedestrian
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- The Washington Post
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- December 21, 2007
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The hoary cinematic genre of the musical biopic is by now so
structurally threadbare, aesthetically bankrupt and riddled with
risible cliches that one first response to the biopic parody "Walk
Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" is: What took you so long?
The second response, upon actually seeing it, is: Why isn't it
better?
Another sure-fire teenage hit from Judd Apatow ("The 40-Year-Old
Virgin," "Knocked Up"), "Walk Hard" is one of those fish-in-a-
barrel comedies that mine a rich comedic vein but manage to come up
with few genuine gems. John C. Reilly plays the title character, a
country boy who as a small child accidentally hacks his older,
brighter brother in half with a machete, a trauma that ...