“Joe Dirt” is essentially a poor man’s version of “Forrest Gump”. It is comedy vehicle for former “Saturday Night Live” star David Spade (“Tommy Boy”) and if other “S.N.L.” cast members such as Adam Sandler (“Happy Gilmore”) have proven anything it is that they make bad comedies as gone are the glory days of the likes of Bill Murray (“Groundhog Day”). The movie is offensive, grotesque and worst of all: not remotely funny.

“Joe Dirt” tells the tale of Joe Dirt (Spade), who is a mentally-challenged guy that lost his parents during a visit to the Grand Canyon when he was 8. Joe embarks on a quest to find as his parents as he goes through his life being picked on because of being white, being dumb and his hair, he’s also numerously accused of being homosexual.

Joe Dirt is simply there for people to pick on as you can’t possibly like a guy that spends his time tying forms of fireworks to cows’ tails and eating off a meteorite that turns out to be faeces. The reasons he’s picked on are just vile and there is no reason for it as it isn’t just a few nasty characters that do this but many throughout the film. Even Joe Don Baker (“Congo”) and Christopher Walken (“Pulp Fiction”) can’t come anywhere close to saving this picture.

“Joe Dirt” is told in a similar manner to “Forrest Gump” and it does share the same subject matter but the film lacks the humanity of that classic, it is a machine and a malfunctioning one. You’ll get to a point where you actually laugh at this movie because it is so pathetic in its attempts to make you laugh as we see a man covered in faeces and a dog that gets its testicles stuck to a porch. David Spade can take a lot of the blame considering he also wrote this appalling picture.