There's no mistaking that you'll get anything other than entertainment of the lowest brow.
Joe Dirt (2001)
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Reviews Counted:74
Fresh:8
Rotten:66
Average Rating:3/10
Consensus: If you fall within the target audience of Joe Dirt, you may find it funny. Otherwise, the jokes will seem like a tired retread.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for crude and sex-related humor, and for language
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Apr 11, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $26,964,552
Synopsis: From the producing team of the comedy smash Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo comes a hilarious comedy that says, "Life is a garden - dig it." He's the wrong person, at the wrong place, at the wrong... From the producing team of the comedy smash Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo comes a hilarious comedy that says, "Life is a garden - dig it." He's the wrong person, at the wrong place, at the wrong time. Joe Dirt (David Spade) is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks. As his wandering, misguided search takes him from one hilarious misadventure to another, Joe finds his way to Los Angeles, where a shock-jock(Dennis Miller) brings Joe on his radio show to insult him. But as Joe's life story unfolds, jeers turn to cheers, and an entire captivated city tunes in to hear the adventures of Joe Dirt. -- © 2001 Columbia TriStar Interactive [More]
Starring: David Spade, Dennis Miller, Kid Rock, Christopher Walken
Starring: David Spade, Dennis Miller, Kid Rock, Christopher Walken, Fred Ward, Caroline Aaron, Joe Don Baker, Adam Beach, Brittany Daniel, Tyler Mane, Jaime Pressly, Erik Per Sullivan
Director: Dennie Gordon
Director: Dennie Gordon
Screenwriter: David Spade, Fred Wolf
Studio: Columbia Pictures
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Reviews for Joe Dirt
It seems to be a movie made by people using controlled substances for audiences also under the influence. It cannot be enjoyed any other way.
To shield us from the negative side effects of class mockery, Joe Dirt erects a clumsy edifice of denial and avoidance that entirely dissipates the movie's comedic energy.
In one scene, raw sewage is dumped on Joe. See Joe Dirt and you'll know how that feels.
30 minutes went by and the movie took a sharp left into saps-ville, crashing and burning like a 74 'Cuda wrapped around an oak tree.
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.
Joe Dirt is not a good movie, but it's so strange it's almost worth seeing anyway.
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.
The execution is so slapdash, the story so haphazardly conceived and so amateurishly executed that by the time things pick up a bit in the final third, most of the core audience will probably have split for the sports bar around the corner.
Not only is the story ludicrous, but David Spade's flat-lined, monotone voice bugged me so much, I didn't give a hoot what happened to his character.
This movie is not what you'd expect. I went in looking for a short, disposable film with lots of redneck and gross-out humor, but came out with a long story, laced with a surprising amount of dramatic moments, little laughs and a sweet side.
An astoundingly incompetent debacle of a movie, Joe Dirt is definitive proof that some Hollywood studios will greenlight anything -- anything -- if they think the highly desirable 14-29 male moron demographic will spend money to see it.
Very few movies can make you laugh, cringe and feel dirty, all at the same time.
David Spade is a redneck with heart, but he can't pull a movie out of acid-washed jeans and a mullet.
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