Joe Dirt
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Director: | Dennie Gordon | Actors: | David Spade (as Joe Dirt), Brittany Daniel (as Brandy), Dennis Miller (I) (as Zander Kelly), Adam Beach (as Kicking Wing), Christopher Walken (as Clem), Jaime Pressly (as Jill), Kid Rock (as Robby), Erik Per Sullivan (as Little Joe Dirt), Megan Taylor Harvey (as Joe's Little Sister), Caroline Aaron (as Joe's Mom), Fred Ward (as Joe's Dad), Hamilton Camp (as Meteor Bert), Tyler Mane (as Bondi), Gordon Michaels (as Oil Rig Boss), Fred Wolf (II) (as Freddy the Producer) | Country: | USA | Category: | Comedy | Year: | 2001 |
| Description: | 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. | Comments: | Many films have an unpleasant taste; this one has an ENTIRELY NEW unpleasant taste - it's like biting into Scandinavian liquorice for the first time, wondering what the vile substance reminds you of, then realising it's a nasty flavour unto itself and doesn't remind you of anything. I suspect the film's vileness has something to do with the way it alternates between nastily insulting and fawning over its hero - the nastiness and the fawning are in themselves embarrassing, but taken together, they're disgusting. It's as if the film can't decide whether it more desperately wants to feel superior to its characters, or its audience. So it does both. It casts us in the role of schoolyard bully's hangers-on, jollying us into sort of feeling a hollow ho-ho merriment as we watch the unpopular kid get made fun of (secretly relieved that it's him and not us, salving our consciences by telling ourselves that he's too dumb to realise what's going on, so it's okay) - then, suddenly, we're rapped over the knuckles for being so mean. Why? To the extent that we played along with all the lame and offensive "white trash" jokes (not a very great extent), we were only doing what we HAD to do if we were to stay in our seats and weather the movie. The only alternative was walking out. And yet, as with "Scary Movie", it's quite possible that the writers feel they're better than us because WE watched the worthless, manipulative and pointless movie which THEY merely wrote. |
Languages: | English | Subtitles: | Length: | 91 | Video format: | DivX 3.11 Low Motion | Audio format: | MPEG Layer 3 (MP3) | Resolution: | 640x352 | Files sizes: | 668 |