nash
I love this movie for multiple reasons. The way it was filmed reminds me of something me and my friends would film, as it is very DIY and low budget. The camera appears to be a home video camcorder, and everything they do in the movie for the most part doesn't cost anything. They break many laws, harm themselves quite a bit, and document all of this into an hour long movie in a documentary type format. I looked up to Bam Margera a lot as a skateboarder when i was young and just started skating for whatever reason. So that's another reason why I like this movie a lot. And over all it gives off a pretty cool vibe, almost like you're there just hanging out with your friends.
SnoopyStyle
Johnny Knoxville and his band of idiots bring their crazy stunts, ridiculous pranks, and homoerotic dares to the big screen. It is a crime against humanity and crass beyond grotesque. It's also gut-busting hilarity at times. First it's a demolition derby, human bowling, and then it goes downhill from there. It is insanely stupid and undeniably joyous. There is chaos at an empty golf course. Then the idiots spread their idiocy overseas to Japan. The scariest and the most brainless has to be the alligator pit. One can get on a high horse and denounce this movie. I choose to accept its anarchic nature and enjoy its charming stupidity.
Prismark10
Jackass the Movie is a spin off from the television series and is more explicit.The film would be popular with teenagers and stoners but for others it is an acquired taste as group of men take part in bizarre stunts, sometimes injuring themselves and with Candid Camera type antics which might be genuine or a set up with all the participants being in on the joke.Some of the physical stunts include tropical pole vaulting, stunt cycling/skateboarding, tightrope walking under alligators. You have stunts such as stock car racing with a rental car, setting fireworks off from your backside, getting beaten up by a boxer or kick boxer and some of the weird ones includes a man going to a hardware store and defecating in the display toilet and that is after he seemingly crapped in his pants getting there.The film will horrify some, sicken others, a few will find it hilarious. A couple of the sketches are genuinely funny such as the golfers getting disturbed by an air horn but mainly the feature film format is just overlong and you try to figure out which of the hidden camera parts are real and which are a fake.
wes-connors
Appropriately labeled "dickhouse production," this is a movie version of the MTV show. "Jackass" had been in the news for encouraging viewers to try the stunts they see on television, resulting in injuries. The film version features even more dangerous stunts. The opening advises, "do not attempt any of the stunts you're about to see," but everyone knows someone who did this stuff anyway. We begin with Johnny Knoxville smashing up a rental and trying to return it to the dealer; something similar was done by Bob Barker on "Truth or Consequences". Jeff Tremaine takes Steve-O, Ban Margera, Chris Pontius and the rest to Japan for many of the stunts. The men shed their clothing and put their balls on the chopping block. Some of the skits are entertaining, but they venture into repulsive. The end result leaves a stench.** Jackass the Movie (10/21/02) Jeff Tremaine ~ Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius