2/10

A word of advice to my readers; there are some straight to DVD films that are great that not a lot of people know about. There are ZERO straight to internet films that are any good. To call ‘Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser’ a film is perhaps granting the biggest pass i ever have in life. The movie picks up 14 years after the first film, with Joe Dirt (David Spade) returning as the mullet-wearing, classic rock and roll loving, down on his luck white trash hero who embarks on another epic journey. This time, he travels back to the past in a soul searching effort to get back to Brandy (Brittany Daniel) and their loving family. The original ‘Joe Dirt’ had some charm to it whether you enjoyed it or not. There was a deeper story beneath the Happy Madison exterior that intrigued it’s audience to get behind this lovable loser. The bad news with the sequel is that it completely steps on and ruins anything from the first film that you enjoyed. Comedy sequels are often never good, especially a decade and a half after the previous effort. Far too often, this film and sequels in general rely on the common formula of cruder dialogue, animated characters, and repeated jokes that were told in the original film. For anyone who watched ‘A Christmas Story 2’ and thought all of the repeated jokes gave the movie a lack or original inspiration, you will hate everything about this movie. Even when the jokes are repeated, they aren’t even told line for line correctly as they were in the first movie. It’s like the cast had an idea to make a sequel, but didn’t care to revisit the original to study for their characters. And why should they? This torrentially putrid offering from Director Fred Wolf clearly thinks it’s audience is as dumb as the characters being represented in the film. It was nice to bring back actors from the first film like Kickin Wayne, Buffalo Bob, or Clem (Christopher Walken), but it’s the film’s supporting cast where i noticed some huge errors in casting. A couple of the actors from the first movie who only had a line or two are re-cast as totally different characters with different names and backgrounds. Is this a movie you really want to suspend your disbelief for? With the exception of one brief pity laugh, i remained silent throughout ‘Joe Dirt 2’. In an effort to make this 101 minutes go by even quicker, i tried to take as little of breaks as possible, but i had to stop three times. With the movie being presented on the internet website known as Crackle, it’s hard to feel like you have to sit through the movie like you would in a movie theater without missing some important dialogue or character build. The hardest part for me was the lack of structure in the story’s one dimensional plot. The movie feels like a collection of Youtube scenes shot for fans still aching for Joe Dirt’s tired schtick. The plot lacks any kind of imagination while ripping off better movies like ‘Cast Away’, ‘Forrest Gump’, and ‘There’s Something About Mary’. All of these films came out before the first Joe Dirt, so why are these tired jokes being used now? I’ll tell you why, because they weren’t good enough to make the first film. I personally enjoyed a lot about the first movie, and while it’s not a film that ages very well with time, it’s always the perfect lazy Sunday afternoon brain-on-mute kind of entertainment. I am just upset that the sequel will leave a bad taste in my mouth with that first offering that i will never be able to forget. The first movie ends so positively for these characters and the finalizing of their stories that there really is no need for this pointless wreck. I recommend that nobody watch this movie. Even if you are somehow dying to see it after watching the trailers, TAKE MY WORD FOR IT. To receive this movie for free VIA internet website, is paying too much. I knew this movie would be bad, but to be in contention for the worst film of 2015 not only disappoints me emotionally, but it also makes me want to give an apology to Kevin James for his awful effort in ‘Paul Blart 2’. You know what?…………….I’m not going that far.