Dirty Deeds (2005)

 Originally Reviewed

Tuesday September 5, 2006

This is another rare occasion where straight forward and concise review is all I can muster up, as this film hardly warrants the time and effort to try and make up something to give a false impression it's any good at all. Dirty Deeds is your typical teen comedy, which for the most part I rarely ever find funny, completely low budget (even for a teen comedy), below average acting, and completely and utterly... stupid.

The basis of the film is the completion of what is called "The Dirty Deeds", which consists of a list of ridiculous pranks, misdemeanor crimes and a couple felonies. Zach steps in to do these deeds in order to protect a young freshman friend who carelessly challenged the school's jock and all American pain in the butt. Zach also has a major crush on the kid's sister, played by Lacey Chabert, and hopes that by being one of the few to complete these dastardly deeds he might finally gain some respect from his peers, the of course score some points with Chabert.

The film is mildly entertaining at times, but for the most part it's either completely stupid or insulting and an overall waste of time; luckily it's a relatively short waste of time. The only reason at all I bothered watching this film was the fact that Lacey Chabert was in it, and probably right away I should have known that if her name is the only name in the film I recognize I'm probably in for a major disaster. While Lacey is incredibly hot, she hasn't been in anything worth noting, except for Mean Girls, and how do you go from that to some terrible low budget disaster!?! The fact of the matter is, and I hate to say this, Chabert is a second rate Jessica Love Hewitt, being stunningly beautiful yet not being able to get a descent role to save her life, and when your getting worse roles than Hewitt... well you know something is wrong.

In the end, Chabert is in the film for probably less than 15 minutes, so your one reason to watch this is now quite non-existent. The only aspect this film succeeds in is perfectly achieving a straight zero percentage rates from the critics and viewers, so in short everyone thought this film was a total piece of crap. I happened to check out one of the bonus features on the DVD that had some short interviews on the casting of the film and found it hilarious when the director stated that in casting the major roles they weren't looking for any "big names" they were just looking for good actors. Well, I question his definition of good, as I saw nothing close to it. That statement is more of a lame excuse for the fact that there was no way they could have gotten any big names to do this film anyway. 

2/10