Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks.

After proving themselves to be the best players of a video game by the name of Cyberkidz, four children are given headsets that enable them to enter the virtual reality of Cyberland, and are tasked with saving it from the dictatorial and violent rule of Zorak (Heinrich James) and his powerful, large-chinned lackey Zeist (Robert Z'Dar). In Cyberland, the children are provided with gloves that give them unbelievable powers, powers that Zorak believes he could use to invade Earth.