
Walk the Line and Ray are certainly influences for the spoof, but the likes of Dreamgirls, La Bamba, The Buddy Holly Story and Great Balls of Fire are all on trial here. There's even hilarious references to the classic Bob Dylan doc, Don't Look Back, and the Beatles' cartoon experiment, Yellow Submarine. Even as Cox trips on acid and rips out sink after sink, the humor of the film never spirals out of control. It is on the strength of Reilly that the film is held so tightly together. I could easily reference a dozen memorable scenes, but I'd rather not reenact them here for you. I will say, however, that the original music does not disappoint - from the sexual inuendos of "Let's Duet," to the catchy title track, to could-be-a-hit "Guilty as a Charged" - all the way to the title track-sampling explicit rap revealed towards the film's end.
Where Walk Hard truly succeeds is that it does not ridicule the lives of the musicians it spoofs. Rather it spoofs a genre heavy on cliches - and for that, Walk Hard is a triumph.
Dewey Cox meets The Beatles:
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Now I definitely want to see this. From what I have been hearing it rises about the general spoof in that, as you say, it shows real affection for it. Much like Hot Fuzz did with buddy cop movies.
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