Dorkgasm Gonzo Is God

Even If You’re Famous
By
J. Sternberg

            Imagine if you will, the geniuses at Saturday Night Live (back before it started to suck) did a 2.25 hour long parody of VH1's Behind the Music. You got the image? Great, now make it really, really funny. Include copious amounts of dick and fart humor, more non-sequiturs than an entire season of family guy and you have quite possibly the funniest movie of 2007, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. All hyperbole aside, this film is funny enough to make a gay man go straight, a genius go retarded, and a stuck up film elitist douchebag critic/comedian (cough me cough cough) laugh until they almost choked.

            Judd Apatow and John C. Reilly don't just poke fun at musician biopics, they line up with a sniper scope and splatter strawberry jello all over the sidewalk with it. Reilly's pug faced portrayal of a country bumpkin turned top-40 god is phenomenal, blasting Ray, Walk the Line, and others with a lovable goofball approach you never saw coming. His performance and delivery of one-liners alone is more than enough to make this film deserve a spot in your netflix list, or your DVD/Blu Ray collection.

            While Apatow is better known for making chick flicks accessible to men, he totally snares the Spike TV crowd with a barbed wit that matches and/or tops the National Lampoons humor of the past. This is without an American alternative to the lovable flicks of England's Working Title pictures, and no doubt a man's man comedy (albeit with an extreme pile of dick) that any frat boy out there could watch with his buddies.

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            I could go on and on about how this film basically throws Ray, Walk the Line, The Doors, That Thing you Do! and a little Airplane! in a blender and tops it with whip cream and a sprinkling of Wet Hot American Summer, but if you understand that last statement, you know that you're doing yourself an injustice by continuing to read this instead of watching the film.

            This is THEE FILM for people who want to laugh at Will Ferrell but can't. This movie has more than its fair share of ties to other dumb-ass comedies out there. While I can't stand most of its brethren, I do have to state for the record that this is a cut above and an intelligently stupid spoof, that doesn't beg for forgiveness, or stupidity from you. Better, it asks that you give it a chance, and realize its integrity lies in the neighborhood of Mel Brooks, as opposed to the graveyard of failures on the corner of Wayans and Ferrell.

            Now, others at Dorkgasm (who perhaps lack taste and better judgment, and I don't mean Ken, BONG) may lump this into "stupid stoner trash" I can't recommend this film enough. If you like the ridiculous non-sequitur style of Family Guy or the non stop vulgarity of The Upright Citizens Brigade, you will love this movie. It may be a better film with homegrown herbal remedies, but I saw it sober and loved the hell out if it.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story gets 4 "even if you're famous"'s out of 5.