The Ed cameo in Dewey Cox

aNiMaL wrote:

You know, regardless of Ed, I was really stoked to see it 'cause it is from the same makers of Taledaga Nights and Super Bad - both of which are fucking hysterical!! And, the origianl trailer was really fucking funny.

By the time the movie came out, it was as though they took all the funny out of it. And I was let down. I clearly had way too high of expectations.

There's shitloads of funny shit that was never in the trailer. It's one of those movies where you pick up new shit with every successive viewing.

What makes the movie so funny to me is the "wink-nod" self awareness it has. For instance, none of the actors playing famous musicians look like who they are supposed to look like, so Dewey has to refer to them by their full name (and sometimes affiliation) so the audience gets the joke.

"Great set, Buddy Holly."
"I think you're right, George Harrison of the Beatles."

Nobody talks that way in real life. Which, to me, is part of what makes that movie funny, too.

Also, at the beginning ... when 40-something John C. Reilly is playing a 15-year-old, and he has to keep dropping his age so the audience knows how young he's supposed to be. "I think I'm doing pretty good for a 15-year-old with a wife and a baby."

There are other examples of way-too-self-aware dialogue that I find funny as well: "That was early Dewey ... this is middle Dewey."
"I guess that's the end of another chapter in your life, Dewey Cox."
"This is a dark fucking period!"

I saw this at the cinema, unaware of Ed's cameo appearance. When he came on screen I actually exclaimed "Fuck me its Ed!" and was greeted with a chorus of shut up's and ssshhhh!
For what it's worth, I thought the film was a hoot.

That was a perfect satire of every Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame induction speech cliche'...maybe not "hilarious" but very cleverly written. Ed did a good job delivering the lines too. If he really did that in one take it's pretty damn impressive.

I LOVE that jacket...but really, I do!

It appears he's worn it several times before:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrtKtHfpOOQ

and I saw him walk into Letterman with it on once, too...

TallGuyCM wrote:

I had low expectations going into it, but actually got quite a few chuckles out of it. And Pam from The Office is smokin' as his wife!!!

+1 to that!

Jer1 wrote:

That was a perfect satire of every Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame induction speech cliche'...maybe not "hilarious" but very cleverly written. Ed did a good job delivering the lines too. If he really did that in one take it's pretty damn impressive.

More to the point, it was perfect satire of every ED induction speech ...

High Fidelity 2000 wrote:

I thought the same thing, I saw it in theaters and "Veeeder" was cut out. I think the scene on DVD is longer (haven't seen the DVD yet). There was a whole lot that was filmed for that movie (even made it into the trailers, like the Cox sausages thing) that they didn't put in.

I'm a big fan of Dan Bern. He wrote a bunch of the songs for Walk Hard, and some of the best ones they filmed, but didn't put in the movie (you can see the scenes on youtube, from before the movie even came out, and I assume in the DVD).

Overall I was expecting it to be much funnier, and was let down. It had its moments, but one of those where the preview is funnier than the movie. I do like all the wink-wink obvious references that someone else mentioned.

It seriously is my favorite movie right now. I watch it once every few weeks or so. I don't care if that makes me a cretin.

slightofjeff wrote:

There's shitloads of funny shit that was never in the trailer. It's one of those movies where you pick up new shit with every successive viewing.

What makes the movie so funny to me is the "wink-nod" self awareness it has. For instance, none of the actors playing famous musicians look like who they are supposed to look like, so Dewey has to refer to them by their full name (and sometimes affiliation) so the audience gets the joke.

"Great set, Buddy Holly."
"I think you're right, George Harrison of the Beatles."

Nobody talks that way in real life. Which, to me, is part of what makes that movie funny, too.

Also, at the beginning ... when 40-something John C. Reilly is playing a 15-year-old, and he has to keep dropping his age so the audience knows how young he's supposed to be. "I think I'm doing pretty good for a 15-year-old with a wife and a baby."

There are other examples of way-too-self-aware dialogue that I find funny as well: "That was early Dewey ... this is middle Dewey."
"I guess that's the end of another chapter in your life, Dewey Cox."
"This is a dark fucking period!"

Jack Black was a classic as McCartney. Come the think of the whole Beatles scene was histerical.