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...those of you that find mullets funny, then you are guaranteed at least one laugh in David Spade’s newest comedy, Joe Dirt. Unfortunately, one laugh may be all you get, since it’s all downhill from there for this ridiculous tale of a hero arising from the depths of trailer trash...
...feature film debut, director Dennie Gordon has Spade (Tommy Boy, Lost & Found) playing Joe Dirt, a “wig wearin’, acid wash jean lovin’, rock concert T-shirt sportin’ hero.” Lost by his parents at the Grand Canyon, Dirt and his mullet have been on their own since he was eight. Never abandoning his lifelong goal of finding his family, the adult Dirt fends for himself by working as a janitor in a Los Angeles radio station. Constantly derided for his blatant white trashiness, the station’s producers...
Ironically, Joe’s pathetic tale endears him to Kelly’s radio audience, and as the mockery turns to empathy, Joe’s down-to-earth goodness makes him a sort of a national champion, a tragic hero of the trailer class. His newfound fame quickly propels him into a variety of adventures, as he continues to search for his parents (oddly, Dirt never thinks to search for his sister, who has also been separated from him since he was eight...
Although extremely funny as the sidekick of the late Chris Farley in Tommy Boy and Black Sheep, Spade’s post-Farley attempts to step in the lead have exposed his limited acting capacities. Joe Dirt is no exception. Spade simply cannot pull off the lovable, upbeat, misfortunate hero; his deadpan acting style fails to elicit any sympathy or emotional involvement whatsoever. The audience is more mystified by how Brandy could possibly be attracted to this dope than to whether or not he actually gets the girl. Furthermore, a romantic theme involving the moon is directly copied from...
...amusing twist of intertextuality, Colin Firth, known simply as a wet T-shirt to American Austen princesses, is delicious as Darcy. Firth, having previously played Austen’s Darcy in the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice television miniseries, returns to romantic hero-dom after playing the discarded husband in both The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love. He silently observes Bridget’s liaisons with the deceptive “Cleave,” slowly revealing his growing tenderness for the girl, until he can take no more. Granted, it’s a role that...