“No doubt, a loser film.”
David Spade is back with his goofy and moron-like persona in
Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser. Co-written
and directed by Fred Wolf, this sequel to the 2001 sleeper hit features Joe in
what should have been the most dramatic moment of his life.
Sitting on a bench, Joe Dirt begins recounting to a woman
stranger how he lost his wife Brandy (Britanny Daniel) and their three
daughters. Realizing his own clumsiness and scanty intelligence, Joe has some
sort of self-esteem issues. He fears that his kids will inherit his stupidity or
that he may embarrass them. Sadly, his worst fear comes to reality when his
family see him being farted upon by his fellow loggers.
A chance for redemption comes to Joe when a twister sends
him back in time to 1965, enabling him to meet his younger wife. It is not that
easy as Joe must also face insurmountable challenges like encountering his
rival Jimmy (Mark McGrath), becoming victim of an organ theft, making out with
dogs (“man’s best friend with benefits” as he puts it), being stranded on a
desert island, and undergoing an operation to return to normalcy his testicles
which have been elongated by the airplane’s vacuum-suction toilet. As the song
“Love Hurts” hums in the background, Joe will eventually take back the missing
pieces of his life.
Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful
Loser is unique, unpredictable and wild in the bad sense. With its unusual
and incoherently-woven history, it has a difficult plot filled with nonsense
and cluelessness. It feels like there is not much thought put into the movie. It
looks so messy, lazy and sloppy. It has plenty of movie references like Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, The
Wizard of Oz, The Silence of the
Lambs, Cast Away, and It’s a Wonderful Life. While this may
sound fun, the film fails to deliver enjoyable parodies of them. They end up
looking unimaginative and pitiable.
Humor in the film is inconsistently good. Just when you feel
like laughing, the sequence suddenly becomes whiny and excessive. The joke on
Joe’s elongated ball, running for roughly fifteen minutes, is quite draggy and
frustrating. With this type of film, an abundance of physical humor can be
expected and Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser
is not one to be exempted. While Jimmy’s
penis-on-the-bottom-of-the-popcorn-bucket joke is hilarious, the
fart-on-Joe’s-face joke is quite cheap and offensive. The film is not also devoid with racy humor
like homophobic jokes (inserting vodka-soaked tampons into one’s ass and
feeling the sensation), slut jokes, and jokes about Southerners.
Being a co-writer as well, Spade has obvious dedication to
this sequel. It is apparent that he generously put his heart into each moment,
whether humor is too bad or things just don’t make sense. However, there is no
other interesting persona opposite him, or even just alongside him. With the
exception of McGrath, others just look bland and dull, as if they are only
playing along and waiting until the film wraps up.
Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser is
like-but-not-actually-like-its-title; it’s a loser but not a beautiful one.
With its bad acting, nonsensical plot and boring atmosphere, it is a
disappointing sequel.
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