Joe La Crasse 2: Un bon gros loser

Bon film !

source: Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser

Yep. This was a loser. At least the original was good for some laughs. This turd just wasted my life. Casting : Mark Mcgrath? Really? Bad choice there. It did have Miller, Walken, and Spade back so I thought it might be worth a look. I was wrong. When I say this is fart joke garbage, I'm not exaggerating. Contrived non-plot, no new characters worth a crap, and the old ones have no physical comedy or decent writing. None. At all. I'm writing a review on this for one reason: I hope to save you from wasting 90 minutes of your life. The first 90 minutes of Hateful 8 blows this out of the water for comedy. Check it out.

As soon as David Spade tweeted he was releasing Joe Dirt 2 a day early I immediately went to Crackle and watched the movie streaming free of charge. The several commercials didn't bother me. They were high quality, delicious looking bacon;-), and not near as numerous as on cable channels. I've been streaming Joe Dirt 2 in the background nonstop since it's release to memorize the many hilarious lines. I am of the type Rolling Stone talked about in it's recent Joe Dirt 2 article: "Since its release in 2001, Joe Dirt has slowly but surely morphed into a cult hit…" I concur with Brittany Daniel, who plays Brandy in both Joe Dirt and Joe Dirt 2, who said, "I tell David Spade I loved the first one but the second script's even better." Brittany said that in the company of KLTV Los Angeles news anchors who were enthralled about her and the pending sequel. After watching Joe Dirt 2 the first time, I tweeted, "Masterful interweave with original Joe Dirt...Must see again...tonight." Not only does Joe Dirt 2 have multiple flashbacks to the original Joe Dirt, but it does a fabulous job of time shifting to alternate dimensions making Joe Dirt 2 not only a comedy but a very unique fantasy movie. David Spade produced a unique, complex formula in Joe Dirt 2. Many of the old cast are back and with some new characters filling roles in the original style, the acting is sensational. There was a rumor David Spade shot Joe Dirt 2 on his mobile phone. In Joe Dirt's way of thinking, why not? I am sure many of the naysayers object to Joe Dirt and Joe Dirt 2 for their moments of 'cruisin and bruising Joe Dirt ain't no queer' gay-straight comedy. But they don't understand, that's just "never have no in my heart...Up Joe Dirt." I pulled out of Joe Dirt 2 a message when Zander Kelly, played by Dennis Miller in both movies, said, "You know what freedom is? Another word for nothing left to lose." Given Miller's political persuasion I take it to mean you end up with nothing under socialism so when you end up with nothing fight for freedom. In the movie there's no harming anyone except Joe Dirt 2. Like Joe Dirt's hitchhiking sign said, "I won't kill you." But judging the Hollywood type politically correct ultra shallow reviews, you'd think Joe Dirt 2 had just killed somebody. And you know David Spade's in big trouble with the powers that be in Hollywood for releasing it on Crackle for free. Hence, the coordinated negative reviews running rampant. Sure the Joe Dirt character is politically incorrect among a host of other non-multicultural undertones in both movies. Technically, Joe Dirt 2 Beautiful Loser is a winner. But more importantly it's a plot development winner as a sequel because this loser gains a beautiful wife, beautiful children and in his trials and tribulations finds his self esteem. The cultural Marxists are gnashing their teeth. What a profoundly independent success story Joe Dirt has become in Joe Dirt 2. Never does Joe Dirt 2 contain a hint of reaching out to government for handouts regardless of how tragic his predicaments become. I can't wait for Joe Dirt 3 to see Joe and Brandy's daughters get married. And that won't be no Focker movie. I could see one of their daughters become the first woman President in Joe Dirt 3 or 4. Whaaaaat? It could happen. Dudley Moore would appreciate both the original Joe Dirt & sequel Joe Dirt 2 Beautiful Loser because David Spade's character style emulates much of Moore.

I really adore the original Joe Dirt. It could have just been bad low-brow jokes, but it ended up having a ton of heart. Despite being silly the characters and themes felt genuine and sincere, and the crude jokes never went too low. Joe Dirt was a lovable underdog, a Beautiful Loser if you will (GET IT, GET IT.) This movie however, is a mess. To give it some credit, when Joe Dirt's new life with Brady was shown it was really sweet. He got his happy ending. Regardless of how bad the movie is, it would have been worse if they had broken up after being in love for 15-20 years (a lot of movies do this crap.) The film still has some heart but it's not as well integrated into the movie. Some parts are really nice, other parts are much stupider and cruder than original. Its all very disjointed. The scene where Joe Dirt meets Lynyrd Skynyrd is really great. It's funny, clever, and a tiny bit sad, but then there's a scene where Dirt get farted on for several minutes with no comedic pay off. Some things don't fit. The fact that everything was just a dream can be used as an excuse for some of the technical and storytelling problems, like the fact that people are older and have different hair in the past and the fact that Joe Dirt spends over 20 years in the past and doesn't age into a 70-year-old, but then at the end they claim it was all true? Did the angel magic keep him young or something? This movies throws any kind of logic about time and continuity out the window about half an hour in and ends up being a story told by Dennis Miller about a time Joe Dirt told another person a story about a dream he had that was also true and an angel gave him self confidence, with other dreams and flashbacks throughout. What? Also, the movie relies on references to other films almost as much as a Seltzer-Friedberg parody. They take from Forest Gump, Back to the Future, Cast Away, Silence of the Lambs (again, but that was actually kinda funny both times,) The Wizard of Oz, It's a Wonderful Life, and others I'm sure. It was a bit too much. The performances were okay but not nearly as tight as in the original. This could be blamed on an editor, but most people have at least a few moments that are really off. The only standout performances were by Kevin Farley who had a bit role as a cop in original and plays one of Jimmy's friends this time, and Patrick Warburton, who plays a very crass guardian angel. It would have been nice to get Jaime Pressly back playing a different role, especially after seeing how fantastic she was as Joy on MY NAME IS EARL, the spiritual successor to Joe Dirt. The music in the movie is great an appropriately used. Despite the tighter budget there is still quite a bit of classic rock. The biggest crime this movie commits is not ending on Freebird after that fantastic and well researched Lynyrd Skynyrd scene. It's the best scene of the movie by far. None of things Colt Ford sings about happened in either story. One of the things just rips off the George Jones lawn mower story. The music video ending was out of place. This movie could probably be re-cut into a short film that does justice to original but in the way it's presented on Crackle, it falls short. It's just so uneven. Watching movies like this is not where I want to be when Jesus comes back, but at least there wasn't a Larry the Cable Guy cameo. Thank god for small blessings.

This movie just sucks its got that bad happy madison production vibe all over it

I am a big fan of the original Joe Dirt and could not wait for the sequel. I went to Crackle and watched the movie but could not sit through the lame jokes and disconnected vignettes. So I kept skipping hoping to get a chuckle. Nothing! Even the hilarious Christopher Walken looked embarrassed. Mark McGrath tried to channel Kid Rock but fell flat. Dennis Miller probably filmed his segments in one hour - was not really present in the movie. Just abysmal. Spade is funnier than this.

The Plot. Many of the original actors will be reprising their roles as the Iconic acquaintances to the perpetual underdog of the films Namesake. According to Spade this film will be aired Directly to the website Crackle in the summer of 2015. He also stated his decision to don the Mullet once again was due to fan pressure as the original encroaches on cult status. WOw. In other words there is no plot and this is the first in a series Sandler has t made to fulfill his 5-picture Crackle deal. It's as bad as you could think it would be. No story and absurdly cheaply made. If you think watching a pudgy 50 year old pretend he's 20 as he smells farts for 10 minutes, you might love this film. It's horrible. It's not even really the same character as the first movie. It's a facsimile. It ain't Nebraska anymore.

"It's not 2015, it's 1965." Joe Dirt (Spade) has the perfect life. Beautiful wife, great kids and is happy, but still doesn't think he's good enough. After a tornado rips through his town Joe finds himself in the past. Trying to figure out how to get back home Joe realizes that this is his chance to change who he is and become the person he thinks his wife Brandy (Daniel) really wants. The more he tries to change the worse things get. This is a sequel that I'm not sure many people were asking for. That said it wasn't that bad. There was some funny stuff in this and was about the same type of humor, maybe a little more sappy, than the original. I do really like David Spade though. The movie was a mix of Forrest Gump, Wizard of Oz and It's A Wonderful Life all mixed with a redneck spin, and to me that actually helped it and was very fun to watch. This is nothing that will become a classic, and it would have bombed bad in theaters, but as far as a rental and watch at home movie you could do worse. I liked it and was entertained enough by it. Overall, if you liked the first one you will like this one too. I give it a B.

Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser is a seriously pathetic comedy, desperate to have its viewers recall the "nostalgia" from the original film by recycling jokes from not only its screenplay but other David Spade films such as Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star. Combine this with a two minute long session of construction workers and a bimbo farting on Joe Dirt, pixelated glasses appearing over Dirt's eyes in one scene with the caption "THUG LIFE" as if it's an internet meme, cinematography you'd swear was out of a low-rent TV commercial, and a release on the seldom-mentioned, widely dismissed video service Crackle, and you have a sorry excuse for a sequel and a film. David Spade reprises his titular role, the mulleted simpleton who somehow managed to marry the gorgeous Brandy (Brittany Daniel) and prove himself worthy to his townfolk. He returns here to watch his wife give birth to triplets and subsequently be sucked into a tornado that makes him travel through time, back to 1965. Here, Dirt gets run out of town and chased by a biker gang helmed by Patrick Warburton and realizes that his actions in the past will tarnish his life and his friends in the present. You know a sequel is doomed when it immediately goes for the time-travel plot, but Joe Dirt 2 doesn't even seem to be trying when it comes to its writing or its execution. Most of the actors in this film don't appear to be taking anything about this project seriously, even Spade, who lumbers through his character in a more stereotypical, stumblebum fashion than he did in the first film. It also doesn't help that Joe Dirt isn't a very interesting character to begin with; in my review of the original film, I referred to him and his film as an "anti-character study," a film that profiles a character you probably don't care about and isn't worth profiling at all. The other part of Joe Dirt 2 is you're, again, laughing at Joe Dirt's misery instead of with his misery. This creates an ugly environment for the film, which is less about finding a fun joke or setpiece to exploit, but instead, a situation where the character can be exploited. This kind of humor is most common in Adam Sandler films, so, considering both this film and its predecessor hail from Happy Madison Productions, this style of humor shouldn't be a surprise. Yet, the real tragedy here is watching numerous jokes and situational humor completely fall flat, with the film reeking of a bad parody. This is an unbelievably tone deaf comedy, throwing every asinine idea it has into a pot, and frankly, not caring if you think it's funny or not. Joe Dirt is a character so hungry for attention that he'll go to great lengths to get it, in situations that aren't logical nor are they funny, and the screenwriters seem to do the exact same thing. It's like everyone behind this film made it as one big joke on the audience, laughing between takes and simply speechless at the fact people could've wanted another outing with a character as insufferable as Joe Dirt. On a final note, in an effort to analyze and recap this film's pathetic path to existence, Sony claimed to express interest in a Joe Dirt sequel when they noticed that, during Comedy Central's dozens of showings of the original film, the film would become a trending topic on Twitter. This prompted Sony to get the ball rolling on a sequel, but not in the conventional manner. Joe Dirt 2 wasn't going to be the theatrically released comedy sequel to a fourteen-year-old, low-key hit; it was going to be the debut sequel to premiere on Crackle, the video-streaming service owned by Sony. If we're supposed to look at Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser as the kickstarter for a video-streaming service, then this is one of the saddest and most pathetic exclusives to any website I, personally, have yet to see. Starring: David Spade, Brittany Daniel, Patrick Warburton, Dennis Miller, Adam Beach, Mark McGrath, Christopher Walken, and Colt Ford. Directed by: Fred Wolf.