jake kasdan's WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY (2007)

Walk Hard has a pretty impressive pedigree in front of and behind the camera, which makes it that much more disappointing that it very, very rarely scales the walls of standard parody; it's a much more graceful, intelligent animal than most other genre entries from the past decade, sure, and picks at an enormously deserving target in the Oscar-Bait Music Biopic, but it plays so broadly with its conceit that it squanders the audience's connection to it. the performers are all terrific, the look is appropriately self-impressed, and, lest i forget to mention it, the film is funny throughout, but it respects its audience and itself a little less than it could have, opting instead to merely please.