Joe Dirt

This David Spade vehicle about an inbred, mullet-haired, 98-pound nitwit has no structure to speak of other than the main character narrating four-minute vignettes about meeting road movie oddballs and fantasy sexpots while crisscrossing the country on a quest to find his white trash parents. Tying these episodes together is a pathetically contrived set piece in which this grating dullard tells his life story to a DJ (Dennis Miller, propped up and caffeinated) over the course of three days of broadcasts. An astoundingly incompetent debacle of a movie, Joe Dirt is definitive proof that some Hollywood studios will green-light anything--anything--if they think the highly desirable 14-29 male moron demographic will spend money to see it. Not recommended. (R. Blackwelder)[Blu-ray Review—July 14, 2015—Sony, 91 min., PG-13, Blu-ray: $19.99—Making its first appearance on Blu-ray, 2001's Joe Dirt features a fine transfer and a DTS-HD 5.1 soundtrack. Extras new to this Blu-ray release include a “making-of” for the sequel Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser (5 min.) and “The Return” retrospective featurette (4 min.). Carried over from the previous DVD release are audio commentaries (the first with director Dennie Gordon; the second with star David Spade), deleted scenes (6 min.), outtakes and bloopers (3 min.), and trailers. Bottom line: an unnecessary Blu-ray edition of an unnecessary movie.]