The music is great, the rest less so

Rating: 3/10 (2 January 2008)

Spoof of every music biography you can think of with John C Reilly in the lead a Dewey Cox, a Johnny Cash style singer. Amusing, but only to a point, this is movie that sets up a joke and unleashes it then sets up another joke and unleashes it and then another and another one at a time in succession as it hits every movie music bio cliché there is. As game as the cast is I could find no reason to keep watching this film, except that the songs are excellent. Frankly if it wasn't for the songs I'd say pass on this film until cable since the jokes are too few and often too obvious to bother with besides buying the cd of music would be cheaper and jump you right to the good stuff. 3 out of 10