Joe Dirt

Posted to Adventure, Romance on January 20th, 2007 by Chad Everett

Joe Dirt (David Spade) is perhaps your average janitor, if you consider your average janitor to have a mullet wig that was put on him as a boy to cover a hole in his head, and now it’s been fused into the skull when the bones finally grew together, and a life so bad that he can do little about it but look at the bright side of life. If he didn’t, he would probably have given up long ago.

So one day when his employer, Zander Kelly (Dennis Miller) comes across him cleaning the lobby and decides to put him on the show, the whole world gets to hear about the adventures of Joe Dirt and just how he got to where he is today. Perhaps the strangest thing of all is that by the end of the story, what started as poking some fun at the guy who didn’t fit turns into a story of triumph.

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Red Eye

Posted to Thriller on October 8th, 2006 by Chad Everett

When Lisa (Rachel McAdams) heads to the airport to return to Miami, she gets a call from her hotel. It turns out that night clerk Cynthia has an emergency on her hands – a regular couple seems to be there and she can’t find her reservation. Luckily, Lisa is one of those rare souls who can handle emergencies like this, and even though she’s late for her flight and in a cab on a cell phone, she walks Cynthia through handling things without a hitch.

Unfortunately when she gets to the airport, she finds out that her flights has been delayed, and it looks like she’ll be on the red eye back to Miami. That’s when a rather boisterous passenger gets upset about having to wait in line while others (who are about to miss their flights) get to go ahead of him. That’s host most of us would act – but Lisa takes it in stride and tries to help out the overwhelmed customer service people. She’s just that kind of person.

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American Wedding

Posted to Comedy on April 2nd, 2006 by Chad Everett

This is probably my least favorite movie of the series, but it’s growing on me. Probably because I’ve caught bits and pieces of it this weekend on some station or another (USA, I think), and those bits and pieces remind me of the parts of the series I like, without force-feeding me the whole thing, which reminds me why I don’t like the whole thing.

In this third go-round, Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) are, as you may imagine by the title, getting married. As you may also surmise, simply because you’ve been paying attention previously, things probably aren’t going to go quite as expected along the way, and you’d be right, even if you hadn’t seen a single preview of the actual movie.

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About Celluloid Heroes

Welcome to Celluloid Heroes! Here you will find movie reviews of all shapes and sizes. No stone is left unturned, and that is meant quite literally. In fact, you are probably quite unlikely to find the best of the best, as that's something that you can find elsewhere. Here you're more likely to find the dregs of the movie world than anything else.

As to the name? It's actually from a song by The Kinks, and while it may or may not have anything to do directly with the movies, it does mention quite a few movie stars, and things that make you think about movies, and well, it just seemed appropriate. Hopefully you'll agree, and if not, I suspect it won't get in the way too much.

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