Parody of musician biographical movies.

Rating: Null/10 (28 May 2008)

I had high hopes for this movie. I like John C. Reilly and he always creates memorable characters. But this movie steps across an uncomfortable line, with frequent frank and often "dirty" sexual references. It dips too much into toilet humor to retain its parody edge. I was overall disappointed.
This movie is a parody of musical biographical movies like the Johnny Cash "Walk the Line." It follows much of that movie closely as we see young Dewey Cox playing a game with his brother, with swords, and Dewey accidentally kills his older brother. Several times during the movie the mean dad is heard to say "the wrong boy died." Reilly plays the grown up Dewey Cox. Of course he has a nice wife and kids back home but as he is on the road gets unwisely involved in booze, drugs, and wild women.
On a positive note, Reilly does an admirable job singing the songs in this movie. But for me that was not enough to salvage it. I could not recommend it to my friends.