Joe Dirt Movie Review 2001

Spade plays the hapless, well-meaning personification of every trailer-trash joke you've ever heard or told. He sports a robo-mullet, earns his keep with degrading, sub-minimum wage jobs, drives a beat-up muscle car, and grooves to '70s arena-rock. He's also searching for his parents, who bailed on him during a trip to the Grand Canyon when he was eight. Too bad he isn't funny. Co-writers Spade and Wolf spend too much time on the heart strings and not enough on the funny bone, which results in an unholy hybrid of Jerry Springer and the Lifetime Network. Miller's shock-jock and Walken's crazed janitor add some genuine laughs to the proceedings, but not enough.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 91 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Road Trip, Hard Knock Life, Stupid Is..., Radio, Slob Comedy

Screenplay

David Spade, Fred Wolf

Cast

David Spade, Dennis Miller, Adam Beach, Christopher Walken, Jaime Pressly, Caroline Aaron, Fred Ward, Brittany Daniel, Kid Rock, Erik Per Sullivan, Megan Taylor Harvey

Cinematography

John R. Leonetti

Director

Dennie Gordon

Music

Waddy Wachtel

Other

David M. Kelson, Richard Lightstone, Michael Dilbeck, Peck Prior, Alan Au, Alexandra Welker, Perry Andelin Blake

Producer

Robert Simonds, Happy Madison Productions, Columbia Pictures