| 63 |
Charlotte Observer
Spade, who almost invariably plays smug or smarmy characters, proves he really can act.
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| 50 |
New York Post
Little more than a series of sketches, tied together by Joe's on-air interrogation by a nasty shock jock played by Dennis Miller.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
This underdog comedy and its title character have considerable charm.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
Ends up blowing its own joke. Instead of making Joe blissfully arrogant in his Southern rock dude myopia, it turns him into a shuffling masochistic loser.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stuart
If you are in touch with your inner 14-year-old child, you could do worse.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
This sentimental comedy is generally sweet natured.
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| 43 |
Mr. Showbiz
A full-throated shout-out to the lowest common denominator.
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| 40 |
Film.com
It's only when you see the movie that you discover how completely the film misses opportunities to develop these ideas into anything like movie comedy.
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| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Joe Dirt is so obviously a construction that it is impossible to find anything human about him; he is a concept, not a person.
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| 38 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Just a big chunk of waste flushed from a Hollywood studio.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
Rich with comic potential that goes unfulfilled, time after stupefying time.
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| 30 |
Salon.com
What makes it so disappointing is that the movie is just another sub-Farrelly-brothers collection of miscellaneous gags.
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| 25 |
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
For all its promise of lively trailer-park humor, Joe Dirt digs, then lies in its own grave, killed by blah characters, lame jokes and cliches you can see coming a mile away.
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| 25 |
Boston Globe
Joanna Weiss
We have to endure 93 minutes of this torture, with only a few high points.
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| 25 |
USA Today
Structured loosely enough to work in all the excrement and incest jokes necessary to seem hip these days.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Knows its audience and doesn't stint on the flatulence jokes, poop jokes, leg-humping dogs and moments of homo-panic.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
Relentlessly softheaded and softhearted.
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| 12 |
Baltimore Sun
Athima Chansanchai
Even with help from a pathetic Kid Rock and a boost from always-on Christopher Walken, Spade can't pull this off.
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| 10 |
Rolling Stone
In one scene, raw sewage is dumped on Joe. See Joe Dirt and you'll know how that feels.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
All failed concept and misfired comedy.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
We should be asking ourselves why so noble a nation would produce swill like Joe Dirt.
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| 10 |
Wall Street Journal
Redefines the notion of a feature film another notch downward.
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| 10 |
Variety
Takes a prominent place along with "Tomcats," "Say It Isn't So," "Saving Silverman" and "Get Over It" on the list of reasons why raucous teen farce is headed six feet under.
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| 0 |
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
There's an oddball quality to the ensemble that might even be lovable if the movie weren't so glib and perfunctory.
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| 0 |
New Times (L.A.)
Sandler and Spade continue their avid quest to dumb down America.
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| 0 |
New York Daily News
Talk about waste products; think of the time, effort and money that went into this movie.
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