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The first ten minutes of the Judd Apatow produced, Jake Kasdan directed comedy musical-biopic spoof Walk Hard has been made available to see courtesy of Sony and Rotten Tomatoes.

This seems to be the growing trend among movie marketing, allowing consumers a small sample ahead of the theatrical release.  If you like what you see will it entice you into the theater? Well, in the case of New Line’s The Golden Compass, which debuted the first five minutes of the film last week, it wasn’t enough, as the fantasy film essentially turded itself all over the box-office this weekend and may cause Bob Shaye to get fired as head of the studio.

In the case of Walk Hard, it can only help, except the footage is really nothing spectacular.  If you’ve seen all the promotional trailers, television ads, etc. then you’ve seen all this footage before.  I laughed out loud maybe once or twice and felt pretty horrible because one of the times was during the “machette fight” sequence when young Dewey Cox’s older brother gets cut in half.

The footage is mostly PG stuff, but you’ll be asked to enter in your birthday and whatnot.  It was enough of a hassle to almost make me not want to watch the footage.  Maybe the best part about the whole thing is watching John C. Reilly playing 14-year-old Dewey Cox.  It’s a bit strange.

Walk Hard sings its way into theaters on Dec. 21.

Love it, hate it, love it, hate it.  We’re going to finally make our decision and tend to think this movie will be pretty funny.  Everytime I hear the line, “In my dreams you’re blowing me . . . kisses” just kills me.  I could hear it 30 times and still laugh.  Also we finally get to see some Tim Meadows and it’s a welcome return.  Anyone tries to tell me The Ladies Man was no good and I’ll show them my boot.

Gotta love Judd Apatow. This time the pendulum swings in favor of this movie, we weren’t sold after the camping music video, but anytime you can give the middle finger,literally, to Hollywood awards campaigns and pay respects to Johnny Cash, well, we say big kudos.

There really is no point in providing any sort of Oscar push for a low-brow comedy and Apatow basically admits as much with this ad, however, according to Deadline Hollywood, Sony Studios is still going to push for nominations in music, writing and comedy (Golden Globes anyone?). Go figure.