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JACKASS:
THE MOVIE (Oct 2002)
Director: Jeff Tremaine.
Writers: Jeff Tremaine, Spike Jonze, Johnny Knoxville.
Starring:
Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Ryan
Dunn, Jason "Wee Man" Acuña.
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Jockstraps
and Beer.
©
Jon Dunmore, 26 Jan 2006.
If
human civilization is to retain any semblance of forward momentum,
never let our children see JACKASS: THE MOVIE. Matter
of fact, once you've seen it yourself, burn your copy and
wash your genitals.
 With
a bravado that most of us relinquish at age twelve, Johnny
Knoxville and his near-equals in brain-deficiency offer innumerable
hideously-filmed vignettes of them being - well, jackasses:
snorting wasabi and vomiting it, electrifying their perinea,
harrying Chinatown dressed as "Night Pandas," golf-cart
demolition derbying...
From hurling themselves into spinning ceiling fans, to taking
a dump in a hardware store display toilet, to presenting their
meat-packed jockstraps for alligators to attack, with the
number of laws that these guys transgress through their fatalistic
stunts, it is truly a wonder that none of them are crippled,
dead or doing life as some perp's byotch.
Though this "movie" has no socially-redeeming value,
its makers obviously know something about our bloodthirsty
proclivities that we who pretend to be civilized do not. Amidst
all the assault, battery, indecent exposure, negligent driving,
willful destruction of property and matchbox car butt-plugging,
hidden in plain view amongst the skull-duggery and dumb-fuckery,
there is most definitely a message - but I'm too busy laughing
to figure out what it is.
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JACKASS:
THE MOVIE (Oct 2002)
Director: Jeff Tremaine.
Writers: Jeff Tremaine, Spike Jonze, Johnny Knoxville.
Starring:
Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Ryan
Dunn, Jason "Wee Man" Acuña.
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