There’s probably little I could say to change your opinion of Jackass. Like the equally intellectually stimulating Beavis and Butthead—who, appropriately enough, have a cameo in Jackass 3D—your mind was probably made up about Jackass long ago.
It would be easy to belittle the Jackass gang’s sophomoric self-injuring brand of daredeviling, but let’s take a moment to give the guys due credit. Jackass hit the MTV airwaves in 2000, five years before the birth of YouTube, and though videos of fame-seeking fools injuring themselves are an old hat by this point, the attention-starved skateboard kids of Jackass arguably played a significant role in the movement.
A butt-powered dart gun and why you should give Jackass may be one of the funniest movies of the year after the jump.
It would be easy to belittle the Jackass gang’s sophomoric self-injuring brand of daredeviling, but let’s take a moment to give the guys due credit. Jackass hit the MTV airwaves in 2000, five years before the birth of YouTube, and though videos of fame-seeking fools injuring themselves are an old hat by this point, the attention-starved skateboard kids of Jackass arguably played a significant role in the movement.
A butt-powered dart gun and why you should give Jackass may be one of the funniest movies of the year after the jump.
There’s also something to be said for the honesty of Jackass. Jackass has no pretensions of being a thinking-man’s comedy: it’s lowest-common denominator stuff and it blatantly celebrates it with a symphony of dick and fart jokes. It’s an over-the-top celebration of adolescent behavior on steroids that aspires to do nothing but elicit disgust and laughter from the audience—and it succeeds.
I laughed until I cried at most scenes and left the theater with a sore face from an hour and a half spent mostly nonstop state of ear-to-ear smiling. Some of the stunts have less comedic punch, but the pacing is such that by the time you're getting bored with Knoxville dressed up as an old man dry humping his granddaughter on the sidewalk, someone is getting hit in the groin with fruit propelled from a jet engine.
Even if the humor doesn’t do a thing for you, Jackass 3D is significant in being one of the handful of movies to justify 3D. About half of the film is shot in eye-popping 3D, and a majority of that footage is gross but gorgeous extra slow-mo shots of men being shot in the face with sex toys or slingshot into the air in a Porta-Potty filled to the brim with waste. It really adds to the carnage and makes the movie serve as more than an unrated version of the show.
I don’t want to spoil to much by detailing some of the more creative bits, but here are some of the things you can expect from Jackass 3D’s stunts:
--Eric Puslifer
I laughed until I cried at most scenes and left the theater with a sore face from an hour and a half spent mostly nonstop state of ear-to-ear smiling. Some of the stunts have less comedic punch, but the pacing is such that by the time you're getting bored with Knoxville dressed up as an old man dry humping his granddaughter on the sidewalk, someone is getting hit in the groin with fruit propelled from a jet engine.
Even if the humor doesn’t do a thing for you, Jackass 3D is significant in being one of the handful of movies to justify 3D. About half of the film is shot in eye-popping 3D, and a majority of that footage is gross but gorgeous extra slow-mo shots of men being shot in the face with sex toys or slingshot into the air in a Porta-Potty filled to the brim with waste. It really adds to the carnage and makes the movie serve as more than an unrated version of the show.
I don’t want to spoil to much by detailing some of the more creative bits, but here are some of the things you can expect from Jackass 3D’s stunts:
- Little people in police officer uniforms
- A butt-powered dart gun
- Superglue and body hair
- A Lamborghini and a crooked tooth
- The dildo bazooka
- Cameos by director Spike Jonze, singer-songwriter Will Oldham and Minnesota Viking Jared Allen
--Eric Puslifer
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