Joe Dirt (2001): Dir: Dennie Gordon / Cast: David Spade, Dennis Miller, Christopher Walken, Rosanna Arquette, Kid Rock: Joe Dirt proudly wheels a meteor down the street on a wagon. While eating his lunch on top of it, he makes ownership promises unaware that his suppose discovery is a large chunk of toilet waste. He is a white trash janitor abandoned by his parents and tells his story via radio. Director Dennie Gordon shows little promise as one idiotic scene follows another. Joe eventually finds his parents and discovers that they knew what viewers were aware of from the get go. David Spade is totally unsympathetic. Joe Dirt is even dumber than the poop scooping moron he played in Lost and Found. As a radio personality Dennis Miller appears anxious for Spade to say something remotely intelligent. Christopher Walken has the thankless role as a janitor in hiding. He should go into hiding after agreeing to be part of this junk. Rosanna Arquette appears at an alligator farm. Crude moments include dog testicles frozen to a patio. Kid Rock puts down his guitar to give us perhaps his biggest career blunder in appearing in what comes off as a really bad joke at his expense. Spade gets drenched in sewage, which is exactly where the film should be. Finally we are given a sex scene where he screams out, "Sister!" While locations are innovative, the witless screenplay lurks in the gutter. Better yet, dirt. Score: 1 / 10

I must say when I watched Joe Dirt On Crackle, I expected to not like it at all. But to be honest, this movie isn't all that bad. I'm very mixed on Happy Madison's filmography, but I must say this is one of the better films.The movie is about a Loser named Joe Dirt, whose parents put a wig on him at birth because his top part of his brain was showing. The story follows Dirt and he talks about his journey to find his parents, the people he meets and the crazy stuff that happens to him which makes him an overnight star.I noticed something about this film that made me really think back to another film I absolutely despised which I called the worst movie of all time. Freddy Got Fingered. For some reason, I started wondering why I thought about that movie while watching Joe Dirt, but then I realized something. This movie is what Freddy should have been.The problem with Freddy Got Fingered was the whole thing was supposed to be a gross out comedy. Grossing out it succeeds, but there was no substance to it. Joe Dirt has all the substance for a gross out comedy. Joe gets crap dumped on him, the film makes incestuous jokes, has a scene where they have to unfreeze a dog's testicles from a porch, you get the point.Joe Dirt's gross out humor works because of it's character. The character is likable but is sort of lame and has a reason why the gross out stuff happens to him and also, the story even though it's a cut and paste type situation, there is an actual story unlike Freddy where Freddy was just a bunch of sketches. The characters are quite cool. Kicking Wing and Clem being the most interesting played by Adam Beach and Christopher Walken. Walken's Clem is one of his most intriguing roles in the way he acts. Kicking Wing is also a fun character who we first meet as this fireworks store owner out in the middle of nowhere.The movie is quite enjoyable, but it made me yell out in frustration in some parts due to the stupidity of the plot. But that was actually quite fun to do. The Sequel is coming in July on Crackle and I will be definitely tuning in to see the film. Overall, Joe Dirt is an enjoyable gross out comedy film and is worth finding in a bargain bin.68/100 C+

I just thought that it was amusing reading the reviews all the way from 2001 to the present. This movie received almost entirely negative reviews when it first came out, but now there is nothing but positive reviews.It seems that most people that saw this when it first came out were expecting something closer to Tommyboy or Blacksheep, with David Spade portraying a sarcastic sidekick with little more to offer than the occasional zinger. Instead we have a great tale of an average Joe that makes keeps a positive attitude even though he is constantly thrown into hilarious (for us) situations.Whats the deal? It's a great film, maybe it was ahead of its time.

I remember during my high school years, which ended just a few years ago, there was a classroom in the school with several movie posters up on the wall for some reason, and one of them was a "Joe Dirt" poster. That was how I first knew of this 2001 comedy's existence, a couple years after its release, but it would be years before I would actually see it. "Weird Al" Yankovic's song, "Close but No Cigar" was released in 2006, on his "Straight Outta Lynwood" album. The song is sung at the point of view of a guy who has been through three romantic relationships, all of which ended when he found the slightest excuse to break up with each of these women, and he dumped one of them when he discovered she owned a copy of "Joe Dirt" on DVD. However, even that reference didn't make me really want to check the movie out right away. It's been nearly four years since the release of that song, and about seven and a half years since I first saw that poster, but I've finally seen the movie. I saw "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star", another comedy starring David Spade, earlier this year, and unlike that film, I did find some laughs in this one, but still didn't think it was very good.Joe Dirt is a hapless idiot who currently works as a janitor for a Los Angeles radio station and lives in a studio boiler room. Dirt is the surname his father gave him, and he cannot remember what his real surname was. His mullet is a wig that is stuck on his head, and the mullet haircut has long since gone out of style, but he can't get rid of his. Zander Kelly is a shock jock who has a show on this L.A. station, and Joe is sent in to talk on this show so people can laugh at his expense. On this radio show, Joe begins to tell his life story to Zander and all the listeners tuned in to the station, and viewers of the movie see it in flashback. When Joe was eight years old, he went on a tour of the Grand Canyon with his parents and was somehow separated from them. He hasn't seen his parents since losing them on that trip, and still doesn't know what happened to them. After being raised in several different strange foster homes, he came to the town of Silvertown, Idaho as a young man, where he met a young woman named Brandy and fell in love. Unfortunately, he also had to face a bully there named Robby, who was also intent on winning Brandy's heart, and did not appreciate Joe's presence. After Brandy's dog was shot and killed by her drunk father, Joe felt the need to leave Silvertown and search for his long lost parents. Even though Zander continues to make fun of him, Joe tells the story of his search for his parents and his adventures along the way.When it comes to the gags here, there certainly are some highlights, such as Joe Dirt finding out what the "meteor" he found actually is, and the lead character using what he thinks is an atomic bomb to scare the Grand Canyon tour bus company into giving him the list of passengers from the day he lost his parents. There were times when I laughed thoroughly and other times when I laughed very lightly or maybe just smiled. However, there are also some memorably unfunny parts, such as certain scenes showing Joe being bullied. These include more than one scene with Robby, played by musician Kid Rock, and also the way Zander Kelly, played by Dennis Miller, picks on Joe while on the air. I also found the part where Joe finds the dog with his testicles frozen to the porch a little uncomfortable, even if I didn't keep a straight face throughout that sequence. I didn't care much for the part where what Joe thinks is an atomic bomb turns out to be a septic tank and pours sewage all over him, though I did find the fact that the police didn't arrest him because they thought that was punishment enough fairly amusing. Other parts I didn't find very funny include the Buffalo Bob/skin lotion one and Joe getting food thrown at him in a school cafeteria. So, there are a number of funny parts in the movie, probably more than I originally expected, but there are also some fairly lame ones, and the humour is just mediocre for much of the film's ninety minute run. There were times when I felt like I would be giving this 2001 Happy Madison production a 6/10, but by the end, I decided I couldn't do that. Yes, there are some funny parts and likable characters, plus there certainly are fairly touching moments towards the end, but if they had done a much better job with the humour, "Joe Dirt" would have turned out to be a much more entertaining movie.