Contrived yet unpretentious, predictable yet surprising, this underdog comedy and its title character have considerable charm.
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02/28/07
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Comedies
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... [More]
Starring: David Spade, Dennis Miller, Kid Rock, Christopher Walken
Director: Dennie Gordon
Reviews for Joe Dirt
While the big laughs aren't nearly as numerous as you might hope, chuckles sprout everywhere like weeds in the dirt.
04/07/01
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.
04/12/01
[A] pathetic attempt at moviemaking.
04/16/01
Too long and too stupid.
04/11/01
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.
04/13/01
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.
04/13/01
The movie isn't too good.
01/01/00
There's no mistaking that you'll get anything other than entertainment of the lowest brow.
05/03/01
The juvenile humor, however, is not so much a miscalculation as simple overkill.
12/08/02
Since the script was co-written by Mr. Spade (along with long-time SNL head writer Fred Wolf) he really has only himself to blame for being involved in such a mess.
04/10/01
"not a great movie by any means, (but) an amusing way to pass the time."
05/04/01
Joe Dirt doesn't waste any time letting you know where it stands.
04/11/01
Top CriticKilled by blah characters, lame jokes and clichs you can see coming a mile away.
04/12/01
At one point, Joe gets excrement poured all over his precious mullet, and that, in essence, is what the entire movie does to him.
04/12/01
A comic named David Spade stars in a movie called Joe Dirt, and that's about as funny as things get here.
03/19/02
Unfortunately, the audience is left saying, 'Just shoot me.'
04/10/01
Joe Dirt knows its audience and doesn't stint on the flatulence jokes, poop jokes, leg-humping dogs and moments of homo-panic.
04/11/01
Joe Dirt is not a good movie, but it's so strange it's almost worth seeing anyway.
04/13/01
Spade has sold his golden goose and laid an egg.
04/11/01
Latest News for Joe Dirt
March 28, 2006:
The Return of "Joe Dirt"?
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