Dirty Deeds (2005)

8% of critics liked it
(13 reviews)
51% of users liked it
(12,577 ratings)

A guy is forced to do a lot of stupid stuff to protect the girl of his dreams in this teen comedy. Zach Harper (Milo Ventimiglia) is a senior at a high school with a strange tradition in which upcoming graduates are challenged to perform a series of pranks known as "the Dirty Deeds" if they want to… More A guy is forced to do a lot of stupid stuff to protect the girl of his dreams in this teen comedy. Zach Harper (Milo Ventimiglia) is a senior at a high school with a strange tradition in which upcoming graduates are challenged to perform a series of pranks known as "the Dirty Deeds" if they want to avoid a humiliating encounter with the football team. In Zach's case, Dan Lawton (Matthew Carey) is a jock who has always had it in for him and has made it clear that if Zach can't complete the "Dirty Deeds," he won't be the only one in trouble -- he'll also go after Meg (Lacey Chabert), the girl Zach's sweet on, as well as Meg's little brother. Dirty Deeds also stars Charles Durning, Tom Amandes, and Mark Derwin. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: PG-13, 1 hr. 27 min.
Directed By: David Kendall
Genres: Comedy

In Theaters: Aug 26, 2005 Wide
On DVD: Dec 20, 2005
Studio: Diva

Critic Reviews

Michael Senft, Arizona Republic
Not so much a coherent story as a string of clichés.
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
As feeble as a teen comedy can get.
Justin Chang, Variety
Even viewers who can still laugh at jokes about accidental urine consumption will be hard pressed to crack a smile -- or, for that matter, a wallet.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Movies like Dirty Deeds are supposed to be in bad taste -- but that's only excusable if they're funny, which isn't the case here.
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times
Recycling is alive but not well in the outmoded teen comedy Dirty Deeds, with a result that is more toxic than intoxicating.
Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly
Dirty Deeds is too mild to be dirty, yet too dirty to be charming, and altogether too generic to be much of anything.
Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com
There isn't one decent performance to be had from a cast of amateur actors (adult actors included) that couldn't make dialing a phone look believable or funny.
Scott Weinberg, DVDTalk.com
This low-end and agressively unpleasant entry into the teen movie canon will vanish from your frontal lobes in about the same time it took to watch the thing.
Mark Keizer, Boxoffice Magazine
The film's biggest (and, truthfully, only) laugh comes from seeing ex-major leaguer Todd Zeile and current steroidal slugger Jason Giambi credited as executive producers.
Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly
[An] unfunny raunch-fest.
Andy Klein, Los Angeles CityBeat
The fact that the whole setup is idiotic wouldn't make a difference if the damned thing were funny.

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Melvin W

Zach Harper: I.A.B... It's All Bullshit ! "10 Dares. 12 Hours. One Wild Night." This review is for the Unrated version. I haven't had the pleasure of seeing the PG-13 version and probably never will. Well, I guess Dirty Deeds was a little better than I… More
Zach Harper: I.A.B... It's All Bullshit ! "10 Dares. 12 Hours. One Wild Night." This review is for the Unrated version. I haven't had the pleasure of seeing the PG-13 version and probably never will. Well, I guess Dirty Deeds was a little better than I expected; but it still sucked. Nothing about it is really that funny and most of it is just carried over comedy from different teenager/high school comedies. The movie couldn't even make it 15 minutes without using it's first fart joke(but, boy was it funny... not). The characters are cutouts of every stereotypical high schooler. You got your jocks, emos, nerds, gangsters, wannabe gangsters and of course the kid who fits into no one special group. He is our hero, Zach Harper. Zach is trying to complete the ten dirty deeds, which are so creative. I mean the writer must of really thought hard and long about these "deeds." How could he come up with a deed as clever as "Drink a beer in front of a cop." Pure genius at work. Somehow the predictable plot and stereotypical characters was still slightly entertaining though. I was never bored while watching the movie. But that's more because it was funny seeing just how stupid this movie could get and not because it was a quality film. When put into the genre of Late Night Comedy, which this is, it's definitely not the worst thing that could have been made. There's been a lot of movies, similar to this one, that are a lot worse. That's the sole reason why I'm giving the rating I am(2 stars)and not the one I should(1 star).
Cassandra M

It's end of High School year time and it's prank night!! Mix in porkys and all the other modern day high school movies and this is what you get. It's about a guy who takes on the 10 dirty deeds, it hasn't been done for years and the last person to complete them… More
It's end of High School year time and it's prank night!! Mix in porkys and all the other modern day high school movies and this is what you get. It's about a guy who takes on the 10 dirty deeds, it hasn't been done for years and the last person to complete them all was about 13yrs ago and for the last bunch of years no one has tried and before that some only managed to do a few. Has everything you expect, dorks, jocks, pot heads, white guys pretending to be black, house party thrown by a freshman trying to get in with the seniors, thick cops, boob shots, ditsy cheerleader types. and 10 pranks to be done by one guy All been done before and been done better, but still it's quite watchable.
Leigh R

FUNNY!!! Very entertaining.
Deb S

Zach Harper (Milo Ventimiglia) is the school prankster who defy the school rules and have fun doing it. He also has a crush on Meg Cummings (Lacey Chabert), who is overprotective of her younger brother Kyle (Wes Robinson). Kyle wants to do the notorious 'dirty deeds' (a… More
Zach Harper (Milo Ventimiglia) is the school prankster who defy the school rules and have fun doing it. He also has a crush on Meg Cummings (Lacey Chabert), who is overprotective of her younger brother Kyle (Wes Robinson). Kyle wants to do the notorious 'dirty deeds' (a hazing ritual where the contestant has to do ten nasty and mostly illegal things) to earn the respect of the school's jocks, who are constantly bullying him. The concerned Meg insists that Zach stop him from trying to do something so foolish. This results in Zach stepping in to sub for Kyle as a senior has precedence over a freshman. The dirty deeds each one more difficult, outrageous and unlawful than the last has to be completed in just 12 hours range from drinking a beer in front of a policeman to stealing a valuable car. This movie has everything from teen nudity to nerds, jocks and Goths. If you like high school teen comedies then you will love this one. <a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=av5sas" target="_blank"><img src="http://i54.tinypic.com/av5sas.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a> <a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=2mer1gz" target="_blank"><img src="http://i53.tinypic.com/2mer1gz.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a> <a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=106xy01" target="_blank"><img src="http://i56.tinypic.com/106xy01.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a>
Donna D

Awesome movie! Love the idea of this 10 Dirty Deeds that need to be fulfilled within 12 hours on a Friday night with a challenging Senior in High School. Funny and charming, I already loved it the first 20 minutes. :) Great movie to watch for a weekend.