6.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
Overview
Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Negative
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
6.8
Overview
Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Traditional
Primary
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is a broad parody of the musical biopic genre, primarily focused on comedic exaggeration of celebrity tropes and human foibles rather than explicit political or social commentary. Its critiques are aimed at narrative clichés and individual behavior, resulting in a neutral political stance.
The movie features a predominantly traditional cast, focusing on a white male protagonist within a parody of music biopics. Its narrative critiques genre tropes and character flaws for comedic purposes, without explicitly addressing or critiquing traditional identities or making DEI themes central to its story.
Secondary
The film features a flamboyant bass player whose character relies on effeminate stereotypes for comedic effect. While not explicitly identified as LGBTQ+, the portrayal uses exaggerated mannerisms for humor, which can be interpreted as problematic and contributing to negative stereotypes rather than affirming or neutral representation.
The film consistently portrays Christianity through the lens of Dewey's judgmental, oppressive father and his well-meaning but misguided mother. It satirizes the hypocrisy and bigotry associated with certain fundamentalist interpretations, presenting these aspects as harmful to Dewey's development without offering any significant counterbalancing positive or nuanced portrayals of the faith.
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative is entirely focused on the satirical portrayal of a fictional musician's life and career, with no elements related to transgender identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film features original characters created for this specific parody biopic. There are no characters who were previously established in source material, history, or prior installments with a different gender.
The film is a parody featuring original characters and comedic portrayals of real historical musicians. All historical figures depicted maintain their established race, and the original characters do not have prior canonical racial definitions to be altered.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.8
6.6
Critic Ratings
7.5
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