Joe Dirt (2001)
Average Rating: 3/10
Reviews Counted: 75
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 67
If you fall within the target audience of Joe Dirt, you may find it funny. Otherwise, the jokes will seem like a tired retread.
Average Rating: 2.7/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 23
If you fall within the target audience of Joe Dirt, you may find it funny. Otherwise, the jokes will seem like a tired retread.
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As the title character of Joe Dirt, David Spade plays a "white trash" janitor at an L.A. radio station, whose mullet hairdo is just one of many personal oddities that make him the object of much ridicule. And the sanitation gig is just the most recent of Joe's many incarnations during a tumultuous life, which got off on the wrong foot when Joe was abandoned at the Grand Canyon by his parents as a young child. After stumbling into the on-air studio, Joe steadily recounts the sad and comical story
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David Spade
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Dennis Miller
Zander Kelly -
Brittany Daniel
Brandy -
Kid Rock
Robby -
Adam Beach
Kicking Wing -
Erik Per Sullivan
Little Joe Dirt -
Jaime Pressly
Jill -
Christopher Walken
Clem -
Megan Taylor Harvey
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Caroline Aaron
Joe's Mother -
Fred Ward
Joe's Dad -
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Kevin Nealon
Greasy Mechanic -
James Tupper
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All Critics (82) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (67) | DVD (16)
Contrived yet unpretentious, predictable yet surprising, this underdog comedy and its title character have considerable charm.
Top CriticA comic named David Spade stars in a movie called Joe Dirt, and that's about as funny as things get here.
In one scene, raw sewage is dumped on Joe. See Joe Dirt and you'll know how that feels.
Were nature to take the course they both seem to want, the movie could end in 15 minutes. And it would still be too long.
To see it is to sit through scene after scene like the one in which a hulking oil rigger spattered with crude takes a leak on some smoldering ashes for no reason at all.
[Miller's] reduced to the guy in the backseat spouting off obscure nerdisms when everyone else just wants to talk dirty and get stupid.
...none of it is funny.
Nothing written here will stop this film from being a huge hit, but don't say you weren't warned.
Sally forth, gentle viewer, and enjoy yourself. En route, you will experience a steady supply of doo-doo jokes, dispensed in seven-minute intervals by the Script-O-Tron 3000TM.
With its quirky characters, silly sight gags, and the tasteless humor that has become a staple among teen comedies of late, this film will not fail to amuse its market.
The juvenile humor, however, is not so much a miscalculation as simple overkill.
Joe is often ridiculous and rather dumb, but there's a sweetness to him.
like watching a talentless stand-up struggling through Open Mike Night, inspiring catcalls instead of laughs and bringing on lethargy instead of levity.
It's not likely to be remembered come Oscar time...but if you find yourself laughing at your own flatulence from time to time, you might find some solid giggles.
While Spade did succeed in winning my sympathy, it wasn't worth sitting through all those bad jokes and weak comedy sketches to get to that point.
Check the pedigree of this film first and you may want to proceed no further.
Audience Reviews for Joe Dirt
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- Clem: [talking to fire extinguisher] You're talking to me all wrong... It's the wrong tone. You do it again and I'll stab you in the face with a soldering iron.
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March 28, 2006:
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