Joe Dirt (2001)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Dennie Gordon

Writers (WGA):

David Spade (written by) &
Fred Wolf (written by)

Release Date:

11 April 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy | Mystery | Romance

Tagline:

Keep on Moppin' in the Free world.

Plot:

David Spade stars as Joe Dirt, an idiot who works as an oil weller who is on the search for his parents who abandoned him when he was a baby at the grand canyon.

Plot Keywords:

Grand Canyon | Janitor | Father Child Reunion | Wig | School

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

David Spade	...	Joe Dirt
Brittany Daniel	...	Brandy
Dennis Miller	...	Zander Kelly
Adam Beach	...	Kicking Wing
Christopher Walken	...	Clem
Jaime Pressly	...	Jill
Kid Rock	...	Robby
Erik Per Sullivan	...	Little Joe Dirt
Megan Taylor Harvey	...	Joe's Little Sister
Caroline Aaron	...	Joe's Mom
Fred Ward	...	Joe's Dad
John Farley	...	Security Guard
Bob Zany	...	Man
Bean Miller	...	Man
Lee Walker	...	Zeke

Also Known As:

The Adventures of Joe Dirt (Canada: English title) (TV title) (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for crude and sex-related humor, and for language.

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Singapore:NC-16 | Iceland:L | New Zealand:M | Argentina:Atp | Australia:M | Canada:PG | Finland:K-11 | France:U | Germany:12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:7 | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #37628)

Filming Locations:

Dead Horse Point State Park - State Highway 313, Moab, Utah, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Each time Robby (Kid Rock) gets dust in Joe's face with his car, the song "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" is playing. This happens 3 times.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Buffalo Bob gives Joe an auto-trader he hands him the red copy of an auto-trader which is cars priced $5000 or less he then gives mention to a car priced at $14,000 which would have not been printed in that version.

Quotes:

Joe Dirt: Things are gonna happen for me, I'm Joe Dirt.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Alec Baldwin/Coldplay (#26.16)" (2001)

Soundtrack:

Jailbreak

Surprise surprise

I'm no huge fan of David Spade and I tend to find the whole ex-SNL-star feature film genre lame and unfunny, but I happened to catch JOE DIRT while flipping through the channels yesterday afternoon and was intrigued enough to watch. And oddly enough I stayed intrigued for the next 90 minutes. The humor was crude, but rarely so much so as to turn me off, and the cast was very good (sure Dennis Miller was obnoxious, but isn't that his shtick?) but what surprised me the most was how caught up in the story I became. Sure it's farcical and impossible to take seriously, but for some reason I couldn't turn it off --- I kept hanging in there to see what would happen next. Even the slightly lame-ass ending didn't ruin things for me. I'd have to say JOE DIRT beats the crap out of similar, more favorably received movies like TOMMY BOY (which I found simply unbearable). Give it a chance.