i give walk hard a chance and i really do . i love judd apatow work and a producer and writer or director . knock up be one of my favorite comedy and superbad be up there on the list . orange county and direct by the director of cox and be a decent film but wasn not great . but still and it have it moment and be watchable . normally and i can base a movie value on the name associate with it and their previous work and in fact that the main reason i saw this movie . but sadly and it doesn not live up to anything they have be associate with prior ( maybe kick and scream ) . to start and i will list the thing that be good about the movie represent the directing have a certain quality to it . consider the director previous work and i guess that make sense . it not too far from a shot for shot remake of walk the line . which i count a a good thing because that what your go for in a spoof or parody . they do a good job with the bio pic aspect of it and which just mean that they can see the humor in the constant ups and down of a rock star life . some and and i mean some and of the line be good . i do chuckle and the elvis part . now the bad represent the first line of the movie be i need cox and i a movie be the main character and not just that but the movie and be name dewey cox and you can really only use that once . but they do it again and again . the movie fool you into think it a jim abraham or david zucker spoof ( creator of cult comedy like airplane . and hot shot . top secret . and naked gun ) but become a jason friedberg or aaron seltzer spoof ( creator of such oscar worthy masterpiece a scary movie and scary movie 2 and scary movie 3 and scary movie 4 and date movie and epic movie and the upcoming and and sure to be critical success and meet the spartan ) . there a monkey joke and enough say about that . a poor representation of famous individual and like buddy holly and elvis and and the beatles . if buddy holly have to tell me that he buddy holly it a bad movie . even jackson browne and lyle lovett and eddie vedder be caricature of themselves . basically the movie go for the and haha they be people pretend to be these people and they be do it badly . that funny . a i mention before and elvis be the only good one because i could see elvis do the look out man . thing and but even that get ruin by a line that follow it that be basically only two kind of people know it ( refer to karate ) and the chinese and the king . and i be the king . we get it youre elvis presley . a monkey joke and it need repeat and monkey joke die in middle school . the pacing of the movie interrupt scene that could be use for character development and story to give you scene feign what could be consider important story point . it completely negate the scene prior . example and dewey cox be in a hotel room live it up after his first taste of weed and he be on the phone with his wife . she begin to tell him that she feel a distance . now normally and a knock up type comedy would use this moment to bring down the fun for a moment . use it to give u a real insight into the relationship of the character and thus create a more interesting level to any involvement later on . an airplane type comedy would use this moment to do constant sight gag and or create a fake sense of pain increase any sort of visual of audible humor later on . but instead it go a complete different route when there a knock the door . he hang up and there be no development of his relationship with his wife or any really funny sight gag or quick quip . instead we be treat to a story from dewey dad about how dewey music inadvertently kill his mom . oh dear and his mom be dead due to his music . how plausible . that not funny and that epic movie . i shouldn not have expect more from a movie that have a little kid be chop in half and still talk and with his leg just stand there . the whole thing leave me confuse a to what this movie want me to find humorous . i fail to see the humor in this movie and an occasional chuckle and smirk do not make this movie worthy of view . it could have be a lot well . less irony and more funny . airplane . and naked gun and top secret . and that how this movie should have be . an abraham or zucker type movie make fun of bio pic do by apatow and kasdan and that would be magic . but instead we be treat to a movie that suffer from schizophrenia and it back the name behind good comedy like orange county and knock up and it title like a will ferrel insert title represent the story of insert guy name movie with none of the humor and it have the premise of an abraham or zucker film and but be write like a friedberg or seltzer . the whole come off a messy and leave you feel unfulfilled . save your money and rent apatow back catalog and hope and pray that the train of suck that leave dewey cox will derail and apatow will be cool again . i think kasdan might be lose though .