Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.
Call me a cynic, call me a curmudgeon, call me perverse -- I loved every moment of Dewey Cox's story.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
4 Jan 2008
fresh:
Cox rocks.
– Claudia Puig,
USA Today,
4 Jan 2008
fresh:
Reilly is recklessly funny.
– Carrie Rickey,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
4 Jan 2008
rotten:
Walk Hard runs down quickly, and suffers further from having the wide-eyed and weightless Reilly as its star.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
4 Jan 2008
rotten:
The one area where 'Walk Hard' does manage to hold its own against classics of the genre such as 'This is Spinal Tap' or 'Sweet and Lowdown' is the music, all of which is expertly written and performed.