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| Genre: | Comedy |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Cast: | Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius |
If you snort wasabi, there's an excellent chance you'll vomit. If you watch somebody else snort the Japanese hot stuff and he loses it, chances are you still might toss the cookies. But if you're a fan of Johnny Knoxville and his MTV shock show, Jackass, at least you'll do it laughing. And you won't be alone. Tapping into some primal human delight in the disgusting, Knoxville's self-destructive, politically incorrect, socially unacceptable stunts have a loyal following, one that will not be disappointed at this hilarious first foray into filmdom. It is essentially a 90-minute TV episode juiced with plenty of puke, words they could never say on air, and nudity of the full-frontal kind. Having set the bar for barbarism fairly high on MTV while testing taser guns on themselves or sitting in a filthy port-a-potty turned upside-down, Knoxville and his gross-out gang pull out the stops, and a few unmentionables, with their extra-stupid human tricks. There is no plot or script or actual actors, which is as it should be. A dignified thespian would only get in the way of the inspired insanity. One jackass walks on a tightrope above hungry gators wearing merely a jock and a piece of raw meat. Another jackass wrecks a rental car in a demolition derby, and tries to return it. A store's floor-display toilet gets taken for a test run in another jaw-dropping trousers-down sequence. It's all too much, really, and the rough-video quality complements the frat-prank-gone-awry sensibility. The DVD's riotous "Making Of" segment captures the Zen-like inexplicability of why these twisted progeny of the Three Stooges are so entertaining. And they are. Don't try to fight it. Peter Marchand
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