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Joe Dirt
David Spade made a rather half-hearted attempt to become the next Adam Sandler with a silly 2001 comedy called Joe Dirt that does provide sporadic laughs, but just gets dumber and dumber as it progresses.
The title character is a janitor who has a Billy Ray Cyrus wig attached to his head that was placed there when he was a child because he has a hole on the top of his head. Flashbacks reveal that Joe was left at the Grand Canyon by his parents and after being interviewed on the radio by a shock jock (Dennis Miller), Joe decides to make it his lmission to find his parents and find out why they left him at the grand canyon.
Spade co-wrote this comedy with Fred Wolf where Spade's character reminds a lot of the angry man-child charaacters that Adam Sandler played in films like Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and The Waterboy, but all of those characters are a lot brighter than Joe. The way Miller's shock jock treats him during his first radio interviiew is beyond rough, but for some reason, this guy actually attracts an audience and by the end of the movie, has actually become a folk hero.
The radio interviews with Joe are actually the frame upon which of the story comes to fruition, in the form of vignettes that are more stupid than funny. We actually see this guy ride in an air balloon shaped like a tooth that crashes into an oilfield where he gets a job where he is fired after a week, leading him to a carnival, a hate hate relationship with his girlfriend's father (Joe Don Baker), cnstantly dealing with a childhood bully (Kid Rock), and getting assistance in his mission from an Indian named Kicking Wing (Adam Beach), and a nutty janitor named Clem (Christopher Walken)
The movie had a pretty huge budget, evidenced in a lot of location filming from all over the country, but as we know, pretty scenery does not a movie make. Spade works very hard at providing laughs and gets a little assistance from Miller and Walken. Also loved Fred Ward and Caroline Aaron as Joe's parents, but if the truth be told, Spade is no Adam Sandler. The movie did decent box office, so it's not surprising that there is a sequel, which I am in no rush to see.
David Spade made a rather half-hearted attempt to become the next Adam Sandler with a silly 2001 comedy called Joe Dirt that does provide sporadic laughs, but just gets dumber and dumber as it progresses.
The title character is a janitor who has a Billy Ray Cyrus wig attached to his head that was placed there when he was a child because he has a hole on the top of his head. Flashbacks reveal that Joe was left at the Grand Canyon by his parents and after being interviewed on the radio by a shock jock (Dennis Miller), Joe decides to make it his lmission to find his parents and find out why they left him at the grand canyon.
Spade co-wrote this comedy with Fred Wolf where Spade's character reminds a lot of the angry man-child charaacters that Adam Sandler played in films like Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and The Waterboy, but all of those characters are a lot brighter than Joe. The way Miller's shock jock treats him during his first radio interviiew is beyond rough, but for some reason, this guy actually attracts an audience and by the end of the movie, has actually become a folk hero.
The radio interviews with Joe are actually the frame upon which of the story comes to fruition, in the form of vignettes that are more stupid than funny. We actually see this guy ride in an air balloon shaped like a tooth that crashes into an oilfield where he gets a job where he is fired after a week, leading him to a carnival, a hate hate relationship with his girlfriend's father (Joe Don Baker), cnstantly dealing with a childhood bully (Kid Rock), and getting assistance in his mission from an Indian named Kicking Wing (Adam Beach), and a nutty janitor named Clem (Christopher Walken)
The movie had a pretty huge budget, evidenced in a lot of location filming from all over the country, but as we know, pretty scenery does not a movie make. Spade works very hard at providing laughs and gets a little assistance from Miller and Walken. Also loved Fred Ward and Caroline Aaron as Joe's parents, but if the truth be told, Spade is no Adam Sandler. The movie did decent box office, so it's not surprising that there is a sequel, which I am in no rush to see.