Joe Dirt

As a modern-day Candide with a mullet, David Spade trades his trademark smarm for grubby charm in this picaresque tour through white-trash America, as imagined by real cool cats whose desks are no doubt accessorized with nodding-head chihuahuas and lava lamps. The good news is that this sentimental comedy is generally sweet natured — Joe Dirt may sport an "I Choked Linda Lovelace" T-shirt, but he doesn't mean anything by it. He's a rough-hewn gentleman through and through, so guileless that the whole world realizes a certain fine girl called Brandy (Brittany Daniel) is hot for Joe before he does. The bad news (or perhaps this is the good news, if you're a 10-yea...