DVD Movie Rating for: Joe Dirt

4 out of 5

Movie Plot of: Joe Dirt

Joe Dirt (DAVID SPADE) is a mullet-topped redneck who's been picked on his entire life not only because of his looks, demeanor and name, but also because his parents abandoned him at the Grand Canyon back in 1975 when he was just eight-years-old. Now working as a janitor at radio station KXLA, Joe is suddenly put on the air with talk show host Zander Kelly (DENNIS MILLER). Mesmerized by Joe's appearance and demeanor, Zander decides to interview Joe who proceeds to tell his life story.

As Joe tells his tale of his never ending search for his parents, various flashbacks shows Joe's efforts as well as his encounters with various people around the country. They include Brandy (BRITTANY DANIEL), a young woman who befriends Joe despite him being the target of ridicule by local boy Robby (KID ROCK) and her own father (JOE DON BAKER).

Then there's Kicking Wing (ADAM BEACH), an American Indian Joe wants to hire as a tracker, but is more interested in supporting his dream of becoming a veterinarian through selling fireworks. Jill (JAIME PRESSLY) is a woman he meets at a carnival, falls for, and then worries may be his long lost sister. In New Orleans, Joe briefly works for Clem (CHRISTOPHER WALKEN), a school custodian with a checkered past, and then later meets Charlene (ROSANNA ARQUETTE) who runs a gator farm.

As Joe continues telling his story to Zander over the radio and recounts meeting others and holding down a variety of odd jobs, he soon becomes something of a celebrity, all while still trying to find his parents and figure out why they left him so many years ago

DVD Production Details of: Joe Dirt

Cast of the movie: Joe Dirt

• 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 .... Bullying Man #1
• Bean Miller .... Bullying Man #2
• Lee Walker (II) .... Zeke

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Reviews of the movie: Joe Dirt

Another of those cut-and-paste comedies from Adam Sandler's production company starring one of Sandler's erstwhile Saturday Night Live colleagues, The Adventures of Joe Dirt finds the magnificently caustic David Spade emasculated by a sentimental script and shapeless, haphazard cutting. Spade plays the title character, a white-trash orphan in search of the parents who abandoned him at the Grand Canyon. The humor is supposed to come from Joe's misadventures, his redneck gullibility, and his encounters with such figures as a serial killer, a wacked-out janitor (Christopher Walken), and a lovable gal (Jamie Pressly) who may, unfortunately, turn out to be his sister. But the squishier requirements of the story, requiring the audience to feel deeply for the pain of Spade's caricature, are an irritant and force Spade to veer from the nastier stuff he does so well. With Kid Rock, Dennis Miller

"I choked Linda Lovelace." <Joe Dirt's T-shirt>
"Joe Dirt" was a free rental from my local library and I was prepared, even anxious to totally dislike it, while passing a cold and rainy winter day inside. While it is no masterpiece by any stretch, and uses jokes focused on every kind of possible emission of bodily gases, fluids, and solids, there is something about David Spade's earnest if simple portrayal of "Joe Dirt" that adds up to a rather fun and enjoyable film. Stir in pretty, sweet, and stacked Brittany Daniel as Brandy, Joe's unlikely best friend and future mate, and you have an enjoyable movie of almost no consequence. About the same lasting impression as watching an episode of Saturday Night Live on TV.

About 2/3 into the film there is a scene in front of the abandoned home in Baton Rouge where Joe's parents used to live, and an old Cajun says to Joe in an almost unintelligble manner, "Home is where you think it is." He says it three times, and Joe never does understand it, but that in fact becomes the whole moral of the story. Joe eventually finds his parents, finds out they left him on purpose 25 years earlier in the Grand Canyon while he was playing in a garbage can, and returns to Brandy in Silvertown, the "postcard town" that Joe had discovered years earlier.

There is a lot in the way "Joe Dirt" is done that reminds me of "Forrest Gump." He is telling his story to a stranger, in this case Dennis Miller playing a radio talk show host. Joe, much like Forrest, bumbles from one seeming random place to another, and each time has a great influence on those he encounters. In each story there a beautiful girl he admires and secretly wants but doesn't think he is good enough.

The scene I found funniest was the night Joe met Brandy. He was stealing hubcaps to get money for food, when the dog on the porch started barking. As he started to run off, Joe noticed that the dog couldn't move. It's testicles had frozen to the porch. (They used a stretchy prostetic similar to Jeff Daniel's tongue frozen to the ski lift in Dumb and Dumber.) Brandy came out onto the porch, Joe says to get some warm water and a spatula ("No, not a fork, oooh..."), they free the dog, Joe and Brandy are fast friends.