Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)

This comedy has the simple but true premise that all bio-pics of musical artists are essentially the same, both in overall life story arc (substance abuse, troubled marriages) and the contrivances by which they are presented in film (flash backs, lots of name dropping). The movie does a pretty spot on job of making fun of all that, though honestly the DVD bonus feature ‘The True Story of Dewey Cox’ captures the essence of the whole enterprise as well or better. However upon reflection I find myself liking this movie more and more, it's a wink and a smile on Walk The Line and the music is simply fantastic, I've become espeically fond of 'Black Sheep' in its display of an artist going off the narcissistic self-anaylzing deep end. Mostly I just like it whenever John C. Reilly gets to anchor a picture because it just shouldn’t happen under traditional Hollywood logic, truly he is the Karl Malden of comedy. This film really did make laugh and enertain me throughout, despite being uneven at times and a little crude. So 4 out of 5.