It's not exactly stupid. Cynical might be a better word.
Jackass: The Movie (2002)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:6
Rotten:11
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: There's a good chance you'll be laughing hysterically at one stunt, but getting grossed out by the next one in this big screen version of the controversial MTV show.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for dangerous, sometimes extremely crude stunts, language and nudity
Runtime: 88 mins 16 secs
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Oct 25, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $64,209,101
Synopsis: In what may go down in history as the most irresponsible, outrageous footage ever to be released by a major Hollywood studio, Paramount Pictures presents JACKASS: THE MOVIE. Based on the MTV show... In what may go down in history as the most irresponsible, outrageous footage ever to be released by a major Hollywood studio, Paramount Pictures presents JACKASS: THE MOVIE. Based on the MTV show of the same name, creators and coproducers Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville, and Spike Jonze stretch their surprisingly successful concept into a feature-length film. Watch cast regulars Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Bam Margera, Dave England, Ryan Dunn, Jason "Wee Man" Acuna, Preston Lacy, Ehren McGehey, and Brandon Dicamillo as they perform a series of ridiculously dangerous and dangerously stupid stunts. Entering a rental car in a crash-up derby, snorting wasabi, eating a urine-soaked snow-cone, self-inflicting paper cuts, and using a store's display toilet are just a few of the increasingly obscene antics that unfurl at a relentless pace. A large portion of the footage finds the pranksters in Japan, dressing up in outlandish outfits and wreaking havoc on the unsuspecting locals. Whether or not this is a hysterical romp or a waste of eighty minutes is for the viewer to decide, but the fact can't be argued, JACKASS: THE MOVIE is slapstick entertainment for the 21st century, incorporating the modern world's fascination with reality television and obsession with disaster into a raucous, electrifying spectacle. [More]
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, Steve-O
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, Steve-O, Dave England, Ryan Dunn, Jason "Wee Man" Acuna, Preston Lacy, Ehren McGhehey, Brandon Dicamillo
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Producer: Spike Jonze, Johnny Knoxville, Jeff Tremaine
Studio: Paramount Pictures
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Reviews for Jackass: The Movie
While there is no scientific proof, chances are good your teenagers will leak brain cells by the thousands while watching Jackass. And you might even want to see it with them.
Jackass: The Movie is a disgusting, repulsive, grotesque spectacle, but it's also hilarious and provocative. God help me, thumbs up.
Maybe the best way to look at Jackass: The Movie is as a piece of conceptual art. How far and low will these guys go? What's the pinnacle of pointlessness?
Critics need a good laugh, too, and this too-extreme-for-TV rendition of the notorious MTV show delivers the outrageous, sickening, sidesplitting goods in steaming, visceral heaps.
Compared with Jackass, professional wrestling is scripted by Moliere.
It's plotless, shapeless -- and yet, it must be admitted, not entirely humorless. Indeed, the more outrageous bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost Dadaist proportions.
An inflated and excruciating 85 minutes with barely enough laughs to sustain 10.
Belongs in the too-hot-for-TV direct-to-video/DVD category, and this is why I have given it a one-star rating.
Like a documentary version of Fight Club, shorn of social insight, intellectual pretension and cinematic interest.
I'm not sure which will take longer to heal: the welt on Johnny Knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche.
Every bit as disreputable and often as embarrassingly funny as the MTV program, only longer.
I'm not sure if I enjoyed myself, exactly, but I could hardly wait to see what I'd be appalled by next.
Plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst movie of the year.
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