Joe, who was abandoned by his parents in 1975, has been living on his own since he was 8, and he has been searching for them ever since. He still hasn't figured out that they left him in that dumpster on purpose. But then Joe has the IQ of a larva. His search has resulted in kooky misadventures. Many involve raw sewage.
None is remotely amusing or worthy of note.
Before you know it, he's drawing adoring crowds, doing talk shows and appearing on the covers of national magazines. Best of all, he winds up with the luscious, leggy girl of his dreams. But in the fantasy world of Spade, Sandler, Schneider et al., no Gump gets dumped. There's just something so sexy about a doofus dunked in excrement. Life is a garden.