Dewey Cox Story Delivers ***

Rating: 7/10 (12 April 2008)

John C. Reilly does a credible job as a rock singer in this film.
This movie is really a take-off on the problems of the 1950s musical singers of the Elvis Presley genre. We see a young marriage falling apart, drug abuse, rising to fame too quickly.
Denny is never forgiven by his father due to the tragic death of his younger brother. In addition, the way that it is showed how the mother died some years after that tragedy was rather silly. Falling out of a window with a radio landing on top of her was pretty unbelievable.
Reilly, who sang his way to an Oscar nomination in "Chicago," does sing well here again.
The movie is a good one as it shows the importance of family.