by Wes Abney
Business Manager

To the guy who brought us “Knocked Up” and “Superbad:” You should have left “Walk Hard” in the trash where it belonged.

Every so often, a parody does an awesome job of making jokes hit. Unfortunately, “Walk Hard- The Dewey Cox Story” is not one of them.

The movie follows the life of late blooming Alabama rock and roll star Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly). From his humble roots as an unprepared father and wannabe rock star, Cox covers every era and musical genre within the last 50 years.

He also covers every available substance he can find.

It is a rough path to walk from playing the guitar in his kitchen to being on the top of the music world, but Cox is determined to walk it as hard as he can. With the theme of rebellious rock, many of Cox’s songs are as basic as “Guilty as Charged,” with lyrics such as “I don’t even care what anyone thinks, I stay up all night and I smoke and I drink.”

The parody works hard to establish Cox as the Forest Gump of rock and roll, but the absence of a plot makes it difficult to establish connections. Beyond the sex, drugs and random connections to historical events, the movie offers nothing to viewers.

As for all the guys who draw the line for entertainment at raunchy low levels, here’s a clincher: There is an excessive amount of male frontal nudity.

Even with all this said, there were a few funny moments that were on the level of “Superbad.” The problem is that sifting through an entire movie for a small amount of quality humor is neither worth the trip to the theater nor the time.

My advice is to steer clear of “Walk Hard” and the B-rated humor that it brings to the big screen.