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Director: Jake Kasdan
Starring: John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, Raymond J. Barry, Margo Martindale, Kristen Wigg, David Krumholtz,
Comedy hit master, Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, 40 Year Old Virgin, etc) is back at is as producer/co-writer of this send up of musical bio pics. Co-writer/Director, Jake Kasdan (Lawrence Kasdan’s son) gets a crack at the big time, here and with the help of a great performance by John C. Reilly in the title role, of a very good screenplay, Kasdan comes out looking good. Things get silly, from time to time, as you would expect, and the surprising amount of male nudity comes off like a joke on the audience (Ha Ha, we got you to pay to look at more dicks than ladies night). This is a funny film, however.
John C. Reilly is Dewey Cox, a country boy who makes it big in the music biz, fast. And I mean really fast! His first single is at #1, 35 minutes after he recorded it. He manages all this with no sense of smell and painful memories of killing his brother with a machete, as a child. Yup, there are lots of spoofs of scenes and situations from Walk The Line and Ray. Along the way, he takes a child bride (You know, like Dennis Quaid did as Jerry Lee Lewis in Great Balls of Fire), played by Kristen Wiggwho is actually 34. That’s ok, though, because Reilly is 42 and plays himself as a 14 yr old, so it all works. This is all in the first half hour, so it’s safe to say that this film moves along pretty fast.
This is a good comedy that will send the Apatow fan brigade into spasms of laughter. Those who enjoyed Walk The Line and Ray, and feel like a good laugh, will probably enjoy it, as well. I also want to say that it is about damn time that the Partridge Family theme found its way into a major motion picture.
