Joe Dirt
| Year: | 2001 |
| Director: | Dennie Gordon |
| Producer: | Adam Sandler |
| Writer: | David Spade |
| Cast: | David Spade, Christopher Walken, Fred Ward |
Some movies that come out the Saturday Night Livecamp are surprisingly good (not too many, but some - usually an SNL star will develop a more accessible style as their career progresses).
Most SNL movies are pretty substandard - the characters and skits that grow out of the show are fifteen minute, one-joke fixtures that fail dismally fleshed out into a 90 minute film dealing with so many more facets to that characters life.
And some SNL movies aren't just substandard, they're woeful, like this one. The lead's shtick is lost in a mish mash of unrelated situations, the pace and direction changes from one scene to the next, the characters are strange (but not in a funny way), and even Joe's motivation, personality and attitude seems to change in every sequence.
It tells the story of a trailer trash dirtbag looking for a family he's never known, and that's it.
David Spade was a brilliant sarcastic lynchpin to Chris Farley's bumbling idiot in Tommy Boy, but this image change falls flat. The other characters are badly drawn and the story is mostly pointless.
Most SNL movies are pretty substandard - the characters and skits that grow out of the show are fifteen minute, one-joke fixtures that fail dismally fleshed out into a 90 minute film dealing with so many more facets to that characters life.
And some SNL movies aren't just substandard, they're woeful, like this one. The lead's shtick is lost in a mish mash of unrelated situations, the pace and direction changes from one scene to the next, the characters are strange (but not in a funny way), and even Joe's motivation, personality and attitude seems to change in every sequence.
It tells the story of a trailer trash dirtbag looking for a family he's never known, and that's it.
David Spade was a brilliant sarcastic lynchpin to Chris Farley's bumbling idiot in Tommy Boy, but this image change falls flat. The other characters are badly drawn and the story is mostly pointless.