Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Episode 20: Walk Hard – The Dewey Cox Story (2007)

Theme: Movies About Music
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis take a long, hard walk into Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story — the only music biopic brave enough to parody Walk the Line, Ray, The Doors, Behind the Music, and about 27 movies that hadn’t even been made yet.

Join your two favorite wrong kids as they dissect:

• John C. Reilly’s god-tier performance, proving once and for all that he can sing, act, destroy bathrooms, and play a 14-year-old using only the power of commitment and forehead wrinkles.

• Why Dewey Cox’s life story is 92% tragedy, 7% drugs introduced by Tim Meadows, and 1% being cut in half by a machete.

• How every single bandmate somehow becomes a prophet, able to predict Dewey’s rise, fall, rehab stint, and eventual TV variety show.

• The musical versatility of a man who reinvented himself as Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, and a man on PCP flipping cars in his underwear.

• And why the single most important lesson in music history is:
  Never, ever walk into a bathroom where Tim Meadows is standing.

From “wrong kid died” to “you don’t want no part of this,” from sensual ice-cream licking to 93 broken sinks, Oz and Curtis celebrate the greatest fake musician to ever live, die, and perform a final song three minutes before dying again.

Final Verdict:

Oz — 10 Lifetime Achievement Awards
Curtis — 93 Destroyed Sinks
Both — Smell blind, but still loving it.