The wife and I saw this last night and we just about died laughing. She had never seen Jackass before until I Tivo’ed the first movie last week and showed it to her. She had a lukewarm reaction to that but loved this one.
There is definitely more of a focus on comedy and pranks this time, and some of the stunts are just over the top.
The opening scene was amazing. The guys come running out of a big cloud of smoke at full speed, looking scared to death. This of course begs the question, what are they running from? Bulls, of course!
Next we’re treated to Chris Pontius dressing his dick up like a mouse and letting a snake bite it. It gets worse - no, better - from there. Steve-O puts a hook through his cheek and is used as shark bait in the Gulf of Mexico, Bam gets locked in a cage with a king cobra, and Johnny Knoxville is bit repeatedly by a rather large green anaconda.
The old man balls might just be the hardest I’ve ever laughed in a movie theatre.
These guys have a wild, carefree lifestyle that will be envied by many, hated by most, but should be seen by all.
Oh my god. I had been lurking but had to post because of this most amazing movie.
I saw the first, it was okay. But this blew my mind. What did I love? The John Waters magician making wee man “disappear.” The old ladys hanging breasts. Medicine ball tag. Johnny Knoxville is my new hero.
I really hope everyone involved with this dreck dies during the making of Jackass 3. The average intelligence of the planet would take a measurable tic upwards.
For some reason I found the boxing glove gag hysterically funny every single time. Maybe it was the simplicity of, maybe it was the way that each succeeding victim would immediately and enthusiastically join in with trying to get somebody else to fall for it. When Wee man got drilled off the chair I was gasping for breath.
I also liked the bit where Bam was showing his mom the mutiple, cock-shaped cattle brands on his ass.
“Oh my God, that looks horrible!”
“How do you think I felt? He’s my friend and I was burning him with a branding iron.”
WHY were you burning him with a branding iron?"
“Cuz it’s funny.”
In a weird way I found it kind of admrable that Johnny Knoxville is always willing to do the stuff that even the others are afraid to try (like the rocket). He doesn’t ask the others to do anything he won’t do himself. Like with the rubber ball bomb that scared the shit out of the others – he was the only one willing to do it at first (“dude, it’s just loud…and it’ll hurt really bad…but it’ll be ok”). When it comes to stupidity and heedless, idiotic, dangerous and needless self-destruction, he leads by example. I like that for some reason.
silenus, Chefguy: How are these guys harming society, or bringing down our average intelligence? How are these people who make us laugh so hard our stomachs hurt the next day worse for society than, say, 99% of our elected officials?
Have you even seen the movie to say these awful things about it?
If not, why comment?
If you just felt like shitting in the thread, why?
If you thought you were being funny, why? You both made essentially the same “joke” so it obviously wasn’t original and it wasn’t funny.
I believe anybody who can make us laugh so hard has great social value, and anyone who puts that much heart and soul (and in this case, body) into their work is an artist.
I can see how Chefuy’s comment could be interpreted as lighthearted but silenus, what the fuck?
My least favorite genre of movie is the Stupid White Guy movie (e.g., any David Spade movie, most Adam Sandler movies, etc.). Stupid White Guy TV tends to be even worse (Tom Green, Jackass and its spinoffs, etc.).
This movie makes me wish we had an official censor, who could just step in and officially declare that all copies of a movie should be destroyed and all participants should be jailed.
Because this forum (and most of this board) is about eliciting comment and opinion, such as the following from you:
For example, I thought Little Miss Sunshine was a hilarious movie and commented on such in another thread. Several people took issue with that, but I didn’t feel I needed to whine about it. If you don’t want opinions, then you might want to refrain from posting to a message board that actively encourages them.
Right, but I was hoping to elicit intelligent, analytical, or at least partially constructive comments. I didn’t start the thread hoping for someone to come in and wish death on the entire cast of the movie.
And lissener - :rolleyes: on your Stupid White Guy comments, even if everyone in the movie was white, which they’re not. Do you hate those damn Savage Black Man movies, too?
Cisco, the fact that you, along with a number of other people, find a bunch of guys intentionally hurting themselves to make you “laugh so hard our stomachs hurt the next day” makes me despair for our society. The fact that studios pay them money to make movies like this pains me even more. No, I haven’t seen it, nor will I. I have no need to see it to know that it is stupid, vapid and totally without any redemption. One does not have to see garbage to know it when the smell is everywhere around it. You asked for opinions…you got mine.
Really now. Despair for society? As someone who has never seen a Jackass film, what’s the problem with movies that make fun of absurd situations and human reactions to physical pain as compared to movies that make fun of sexual repression (countless romantic comedies) or enshrine or make fun of patriarchal, machismo views of manhood (countless action and war films)?
Also, I don’t know for sure, but I doubt I’ll see you verbally shat on the stateroom scene from A Night at the Opera anytime soon, and really, that’s what Jackass is: Slapstick humor taken to the current maximum logical extreme.
The humor isn’t to your taste. Relax. It doesn’t point to the breakdown of society, it just means people’s interests differ.
If this stuff makes you despair, you either didn’t grow up anywhere in the rural Midwest or you were raised rich.
There was this one legendary guy from a local school, Jimmy Peavis, who car-surfed I-270 all the way around Columbus on the hood of a brown soft-top Laguna. Seriously, when I was a kid, we heard about guys like these doing jackass stunts and getting away with it. The only thing is none of them was rich enough to have any kind of video camera.
Jackass is a soft option, a skosh more hard-core and voyeuristic than America’s Funniest Home Videos; it’s like a romance of stupidity, and Johnny Knoxville had me at “Greg Pooganis.”
I must admit that I was never ever going to watch something as moronic as *Jackass *and felt about the same as **Chefguy **and **silenus **until I inadvertently saw part of the *Jackass *movie. I found myself laughing at a bunch of guys skateboarding around Japan dressed up like pandas. And, laughing again at them hiding in the bushes on a golf course blowing airhorns when golfers would try to tee off. I was pleasantly surprised (and quite sore from laughing) to find out those kind of “get a reaction from the average Joe” stunts were the majority of the movie (I have since seen quite a few of the shows and it holds true there, too).
But the dangerous stunts are what get all the publicity. The morons imitate the human barbeque never the BMX Joust or the bread suit. And, I think that’s where the controversy lies. I know it did for my part. Why in the world would I want to watch a bunch of guys trying to kill or maim themselves? What could possibly be funny about that? Until you watch and find out it’s *not *about that at all.
So, don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. It may still not be your cup of tea, but at least you will know for sure. Yes, some of it is completely moronic, and some of it is downright gross, and Johnny Knoxville must either be the bravest man on the planet or have more than one screw loose for trying some of the things he does on the show, but there’s a lot, the stuff that will never make the news because it’s not dangerous or sensational, that are complete gems and can make you laugh every single time you watch.
overeasy4: the only part I had to turn away for was the horse semen and the leech on the eyeball, but that’s because I have an eye aversion.
My favorite part, I think (until I see it again) was the air bag on the door bell and poor Dave England. That and the card-throwing part. Poor wee-man.
“There’s a card throwing machine in here” Will be something that’s repeated many times by my hubby and I.
