Felt like a bunch of typical SNL skits.

Rating: 5/10 (9 January 2008)

Walk Hard looked really funny from the trailers....it wasn't. With all the talented actors and writers working on this, it still wasn't very good.
Walk Hard follows the life of singer Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly). Reilly is a very talented guy, but he had nothing to work with. Even the jokes that could've possibly been funny were poorly executed and ruined. It's obvious that, since this is a parody of movies about musicians, might as well include every musician of each time period. The musician (or actors pretending to be musician) cameos mostly also fell flat, mainly because anytime a musician appears, the humor is based on exaggerated versions of the actual musicians, not jokes. Elvis was a ladies man jerk, Buddy Holly was young, the Beatles were hippie druggies. It's not funny making entire scenes pointing this out. The cameo actors got annoying sometimes too, but they were occasionally amusing. However, with the negatives, this was, at times, pretty funny. It was thoroughly entertaining, with very few lulls of boredom, though there were quite a few parts with no laughter.
Overall, this was an entertaining, thought not very funny movie. It could've been much better.
My rating: ** out of ****. 90 mins. R for language, sexuality, nudity.