Released: 2001
Directed By: Dennie Gordon
Written By: David Spade, Dennie Gordon, Adam Sandler
Starring: David Spade, Kid Rock, Dennis Miller
Rating: PG-13
Rent or Buy?: RENT
Synopsis
Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Lynard Skynard in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks. As his wandering, misguided search takes him from one comedic adventure to another, Joe finds his way to Los Angeles, where a shock-jock brings Joe on his radio show to insult him. But as Joe's life story unfolds, jeers turn to cheers, and an entire captivated city tunes in to hear the adventures of Joe Dirt.
Justin Whittaker's Review
This was a fairly decent movie, not your average David Spade film but not too shabby. I believe that Spade in the absence of Chris Farley is trying to fill the void but not having a very sarcastic character, but rather having a dim-witted idiot with lots of physical humour. Many memorable scenes such as Joe falling asleep in a fumigation tent which he thought was an abandoned circus tent and when he finds a ceptic tank which he thinks is a nuclear bomb.
Memorable Quotes
Oil Rig Worker: Yeah I saw your bumper sticker, queer. "Cowboys Butts Drive Me Nuts."
Joe: Yeah, you think this is queer? (pats arm) Think this is queer right here? (pats other arm) Well they are large and incharge!
Joe: I took the beating pretty hard. Luckily my neck broke my fall.
Joe: The problem was I fell asleep in what I thought was an abandoned circus tent, but it was actually a fumigating one. Anyways, my sketches didn't come out too good 'cause I couldn't remember what my parents looked like and my father came out looking like father time and my mother looked too butch and like that Richard Ramirez guy you know the "Night Stalker"?
Robby: Hey, why dont you go have some french-cries or a wahn-burger..YEAH! DEF LEPPARD SUCKS you lil sissy boy!
Joe: Man, if your gonna insult me all day, I could just go back to mopping.
Joe: (holding up bus station with "nuclear bomb" and ball peen hammer) One strike of this ball peen hammer and we all die, now you find me those records of the date I told you about when me and my parents were at the Grand Canyon..and uh you, show me your boobies.