Joe Dirt

Joe Dirt (2001)

  • 11% of critics liked it
    (75 reviews)

  • 63% of users liked it
    (304,277 ratings)

As the title character of Joe Dirt, David Spade plays a "white trash" janitor at an L.A. radio station, whose mullet hairdo is just one of many personal oddities that make him the object of much ridicule. And the sanitation gig is just the most recent of Joe's many incarnations during a tumultuous… More

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PG-13, 1 hr. 31 min.
Directed By
Dennie Gordon
Written By
David Spade, Fred Wolf
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Apr 11, 2001 Wide
On DVD
Aug 28, 2001
Columbia Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader

    Contrived yet unpretentious, predictable yet surprising, this underdog comedy and its title character have considerable charm.

  • Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

    A comic named David Spade stars in a movie called Joe Dirt, and that's about as funny as things get here.

  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

    In one scene, raw sewage is dumped on Joe. See Joe Dirt and you'll know how that feels.

  • Mike Clark, USA Today

    Were nature to take the course they both seem to want, the movie could end in 15 minutes. And it would still be too long.

  • Cody Clark, Mr. Showbiz

    To see it is to sit through scene after scene like the one in which a hulking oil rigger spattered with crude takes a leak on some smoldering ashes for no reason at all.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Brad W


    This was too dumb for words. David Spade was perfect for this, seeing as its not much to work with. The plot is interesting in an idiotic way. The movie was overall bad, with a few funny moments.

  • Spencer S


    Funny in a SNL, Spade way, but not a "masterpiece."

  • KJ P


    It was very laughable the first time around, but after that the jokes start becoming failures, and the movie plummets!

  • Conner R


    Aside from a few shining moments from David Spade, this is a pretty weak comedy. The story is just overly corny and predictable and the visual style is mediocre and unmemorable. Without it's abundance of celebrity cameos, it would be nothing at all.

  • Curtis L


    Never seen it all the way through, but I liked what I saw.

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