The only gale-force laughter in later scenes comes when the hero meets the Beatles.

| Feb 4, 2015

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

... starts out brilliantly playing with the tired tropes of musical biopics before utterly losing its way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 1, 2008

The end of a golden run for Judd Apatow.

Full Review | Jan 18, 2008

Some laughs, but you expect more from Apatow.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 18, 2008

A dismal indulgence.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 18, 2008

Reilly, one of our best supporting actors graduating to star status, finally bound for glory.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Jan 18, 2008

John C Reilly just about holds together a funny but patchy comedy that puts a ten-megaton bomb under the cliched rock biopic - and never detonates it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 18, 2008

Walk Hard runs down quickly, and suffers further from having the wide-eyed and weightless Reilly as its star.

| Jan 4, 2008

Reilly is recklessly funny.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 4, 2008

Cox rocks.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 4, 2008

Call me a cynic, call me a curmudgeon, call me perverse -- I loved every moment of Dewey Cox's story.

| Jan 4, 2008

Walk Hard is the kind of movie that you want to love and not just like, but liking it is good enough.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 26, 2007

In a season filled with so many feel-bad movies, don't underestimate the appeal of something as silly as Walk Hard.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 21, 2007

There are a few too many lazy jokes played off Dewey's last name, but not nearly enough to wipe that grin off your face.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2007

Walk Hard is funniest in its first half, when you're not quite sure where it's going, and drags in the second, by which time you realize it's going nowhere.

Full Review | Dec 21, 2007

In a season loaded with serious films about war and loss, there's bound to be an audience out there looking for some undemanding holiday laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 21, 2007

This smart new spoof works because its makers...obviously love the genre they have so much fun sending up.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2007

Instead of sending everything over the top at high energy, like Top Secret or Airplane!, they allow Reilly to more or less actually play the character, so that, against all expectations, some scenes actually approach real sentiment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2007