An average movie

Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot Judd Apatow’s comedies, I thought I might as well give it a try. Indeed, even though this movie was directed by Jake Kasdan, it was produced and written by Apatow but I think it was more or less a flop when it was released. Personally, I thought it was pretty neat to see John C. Reilly, one of the most underrated actors at work nowadays, finally playing the lead for once and he did a pretty good job here but it wasn’t enough, I’m afraid. Indeed, basically, the whole thing is a spoof of the many music biopics we have seen lately like ‘Walk the Line’ or ‘Ray’ but, even though the jokes came non-stop, most of them were pretty stupid and, above all, not really funny. The point is that everything must have sound great on paper but, on the screen, it was seriously underwhelming. Take for the example the scene when Dewey Cox meets the Beatles in India, you have 4 actors providing a cameo (Jack Black, Justin Long, Paul Rudd, Jason Schwartzman) and it should have been hilarious. Well, in fact, this scene was just really tedious as the 4 actors all try to give a supposedly funny English accent. To conclude, even though the whole thing had some potential, I thought it was rather disappointing and I don’t think it is really worth a look. 

5/10