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Hilariously funny!

Jackass is one of my favs! It’s great entertainment! I’ve never laughed so much! Thank you for this great product! I’ve watched it a few times already and it never fails to entertain me!! 5 stars all the way!!Read full review...

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Jackass The Movie

I consider myself more open minded than most critics when it comes to gutter humor. Always one to enjoy watching idiots get hurt, I had high hopes for Jackass: The Movie, a feature length version of the MTV show that highlights dangerous folly. The opening was promising enough, with Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, and the rest of the cast punching each other in the face as they careened down a hill in a giant shopping cart. But I quickly learned the disappointing reality that Jackass was not all mortal danger and laughs at the expense of others--some of it was just bogus and unfunny.

Each of the scenes fall into one of two categories: prank or stunt.

The pranks are the lamest moments, feeling utterly staged and artificial. These practical jokes present themselves as spontaneous hidden camera gags, but they seem like nothing more than planned shots with hired actors. In one scene, the Jackass crew rents a car, trashes it to hell, then tries to return it. Not only is this routine boring, but it smacks of phoniness: even if it were real, are we supposed to believe Knoxville and Company never let the victims in on the joke? Hell, the production studio probably paid for the car when all was said and done.

In another prank, one of the Jackasses strips down to a g-string and gets his dance on in the streets of Japan. He definitely makes a clown out of himself, but again, it feels too staged. The way the scene is shot implies the camera is in full view and the victims know they are being filmed. Seeing the guys consistently use clunky 1950s-looking equipment elsewhere doesn't help the hidden camera argument.

But then there are the stunts. These are the best parts of Jackass, hilarious because they feature severe lapses of good judgement and morons getting hurt. It's as if someone crawled into the little brains of these dumbasses and shut down their basic survival instincts. Two examples of this lack of self-preservation include Steve-O getting fed to the alligators and a subsequent swim with hungry sharks.

Stunts gone wrong, such as a dimwit falling out of a tree while trying to give himself a "bungee wedgie," are among the funnier scenes, as are the ones with painful consequences: Johnny Knoxville gets shot with a bean bag gun, then later gets clocked so hard by rotund boxer Butterbean that he has to get his fool head stitched up. An electric razor that sneaks up on unsuspecting chumps throughout the movie is also worth a few recurring laughs.

Some stunts are good at making audiences cringe, like the Jackasses using heavy manila envelopes to give themselves papercuts between their fingers and toes, and in the corners of their mouths. Others excel at the straightforward gross-out, like a freak pissing on a snowcone and eating the goddam thing (if that's not enough, his colleagues also kick him in the stones until he vomits). Still others are just odd: what can you say about getting a tattoo in an off-road Hummer while Henry Rollins yells vulgarities, or about a dumbf*** who sets off fireworks in his ass? And speaking of ass, would it be so hard to properly clothe these sick bastards? This flick has far too much male nudity for its own good.

No one should expect cinematic brilliance when going into something like Jackass: The Movie. Its sole purpose is to deliver big laughs powered by crass comedy, and it often succeeds. But the bits that don't work misfire badly, leaving stupidity without the entertainment value. AnRead full review...

Jackass - The Movie (DVD 2003)

The dawn of man: a Neanderthal wallops the guy in the cave next door for no reason at all. Underdeveloped humans laugh for the first time. Yep, that's how slapstick was invented.

Jump forward a couple of million years and you'll think hardly anything's changed when you see "Jackass: The Movie".

Men stupidly hurt each other for the amusement of their peers. And it's filthy, hilarious stuff that keeps going one better in both laughs and stunts.

Johnny Knoxville's gang of sado-masochists move from the TV to the movies, wisely dispensing with a narrative. Instead, like the hit MTV show it's based on, you get a series of OTT set-pieces that are now bleep-free but only marginally more violent and extreme.

Bizarrely, they succeed in being entertaining - if you're of a certain mindset. Clamping baby alligators to your nipples or trampolining into ceiling fans isn't for everyone, but the gleeful egging-on the performers give each other - together with their giggling winces as each new disgrace is perpetrated - eventually becomes infectious.

The purile comedy is particularly fine when the team creep onto a golf course and sound an air-horn just as wealthy WASP-types are tee-ing off. To see the golfers' rage at being (gasp!) put off their game becomes even funnier when they drive the ball straight at Knoxville and co., completely missing the point that such a response is the object of the stunt.

It's sure to be lambasted as irresponsible and perverse, but you'll see nothing here that's worse than in the acclaimed documentary "Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist" of a few years ago. Sadly, it's likely "Jackass" will get it in the neck because it's about having a laugh.

As brainless as the movie incarnations of both South Park and Beavis and Butt-head, "Jackass" is just as funny as both - and better than many of the so-called comedies Hollywood produces.

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JACKASS :THE MOVIE.

HAVING WATCHED SNIPPETS OF THE BOYS ON TV A FEW YEARS BACK
I DECIDED TO GIVE THE MOVIE A GO AS MOST OF THE PRANKS/
STUNTS THEY GOT UP TO,I HAD NEVER SEEN.JOIN JOHNNY,BAM
AND THE BOYS AND MARVEL AT THERE HILARIOUS,SOMETIMES
PAINFUL STUNTS/PRANKS.IM PRETTY EASY GOING AND CAN WATCH
ALMOST ANYTHING,BUT THESE GUYS GOT UP TO SOME STUFF THAT
MADE MADE ME TURN AWAY ON NUMEROUS OCCASSIONS,STRICTLY ADULTS
THIS ONE,JACKASS FANS WILL LOVE IT,OTHERS IM NOT SO SURE,
PRANKS WERE BEST FOR ME WITH SOME BORDERING ON THE DOWNRIGHT
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jackass the movie

jackass the movie its so funny but u have to have the right sense of homour its amazing to what stage people will go to just to be famous and on the tv brought as i like jackass

Jackass the Movie

This is a brilliant film, it is about a large group of people , mostly skaters, that are performing stupid/funny acts, it is an '18 film' but it does generally appeal to people from about 14-35, it isnt really meant for older people because they would tend to find it immature. This is like the Jackass TV series but most people would say that it is better. Jackass 2 the movie has also been released which is better than this movie but it is very similar. Overall i would say that this is a brilliant film.Read full review...

Enjoyable movie, if you like crazy things.

Some critics see the success of Jackass: The Movie as the last nail in the coffin of civilisation--and they're probably right. This compilation of pain-inflicting stunts and embarrassing pranks has no artistic merit whatsoever (which doesn't keep it from being freakishly entertaining). Among other things, Johnny Knoxville and his posse get beaten up by a female kick-boxing champion; shoot bottle rockets out of their rectums; run amok in Japan wearing giant panda bear costumes; swim with whale sharks while holding pounds of brine shrimp in their swimsuits; and get done up in realistic old age makeup so that they can race each other in motorized wheelchairs, among other goofs. It's a weird mixture of machismo and masochism, adolescent recklessness and frat-boy homoeroticism, and some day someone will write a doctoral thesis about how Jackass relates to our safety-obsessed society; in the meantime, just enjoy.Read full review...