How was the critical reception of the movie “Joe Dirt”?
Joe Dirt is a 2001 comedy film starring David Spade, Dennis Miller, Christopher Walken, Brittany Daniel, Jaime Pressly, Erik Per Sullivan, Adam Beach and Kid Rock. The film was written by David Spade and Fred Wolf. The film’s critical reception has been generally negative. The film has an average rating of 3 out of 10 with an 11 percent fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes, and has earned 5 out of 10 stars at IMDB. Ebert and Roeper both gave the movie a thumbs down. Richard Roeper called the comedy for being predictable and strained, and said that the radio station storyline was absurd. Roger Ebert agreed, but praised Spade for taking on a different role than he is normally associated with, and added that Spade’s performance was convincing, despite the film’s other shortcomings. Despite the poor reviews, the film did earn 27 million dollars in the US, surpassing its 16 million dollar budget. On the DVD commentary, Spade states that at the time of recording, Joe Dirt is the number one film i
Joe Dirt is a 2001 comedy film starring David Spade, Dennis Miller, Christopher Walken, Brittany Daniel, Jaime Pressly, Erik Per Sullivan, Adam Beach and Kid Rock. The film was written by David Spade and Fred Wolf. The film opens at a Los Angeles radio station, where Joe Dirt (David Spade) works as a janitor and lives in a boiler room. When a producer at the radio station discovers Joe getting bullied in the hallway, the producer finds Joe’s natural white trashiness too impossible to be believed, and insists he be brought into the studio to talk live on the air with a disc jockey named Zander Kelly (Dennis Miller). The bulk of the movie consists of Joe recounting his life story in flashbacks to Zander who, along with the audience, seeks laughs at Joe’s expense. Joe’s life story begins with him being abandoned at the Grand Canyon at the age of eight. After growing up in a series of bizarre foster homes, Joe, finds himself living in the town of Silvertown, Idaho, where he pursues a love
The film’s critical reception has been generally negative. The film has an average rating of 3 out of 10 with an 11 percent fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes,[2] and has earned 5 out of 10 stars at IMDB. Ebert and Roeper both gave the movie a thumbs down. Richard Roeper called the comedy for being predictable and strained, and said that the radio station storyline was absurd. Roger Ebert agreed, but praised Spade for taking on a different role than he is normally associated with, and added that Spade’s performance was convincing, despite the film’s other shortcomings Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
