I really love this movie. Definatly not for people with weak stomachs or very easyily molded people. Very gross in some parts but always great and hilarious
Hilarious movie, not for very conservative people. Most likely a movie a teenager or some-one who likes to laugh would watch. Great movie to laugh at. But not really for kids i guess.
Jackass - The Movie is a film version of Knoxville's daredevil cable television show. this wasn`t going to be what i expected it to be but still it was ok. the T.V show was better. one thing the Jackass boys were right about was that in this movie they wouldn`t show this on T.V.
i wouldn`t call Jackass - The Movie an 18, i would call it an 15 becasue i didn`t think it was that bad. still really funny. Jackass 2 is better. one of the funniest films i have ever seen.
When it was first broadcast on MTV in 2000, Jackass quickly established a reputation as a Candid Camera for the gross-out generation. Like many practical-joke shows, Jackass honed in on unsuspecting members of the public, making them the butt of elaborate pranks. But it was the humiliating and painful degrees to which the Jackass gang themselves went for the sake of a laugh that made the series such a cult hit. Memorable skits included Johnny Knoxville, the show's affable host, wearing a swarm of wasps as underpants thanks to some strategically placed honey; swimming excursions in vats of sewage; and dropping croquet balls from great heights on to barely protected body parts. Aside from a genuinely bizarre prologue shot on film involving an oversized shopping trolley (which bares the surreal imprint of producer Spike Jonze), the movie makes little virtue of its big-screen canvas: this is, essentially, a 90-minute version of the TV show, a scattershot collection of short skits mostly shot on handheld DV cameras.
And like the series, the film plays as if it were the work of unruly frat house members let loose on the world after a rowdy keg party. It's an impression, one supposes, that the film-makers wouldn't necessarily disavow. Part of the appeal here is the unfazed, laidback attitude that the various Jackass collaborators apply to their stunts. Despite the Don't-Try-This-At-Home warning, Knoxville and co trade on a kind of baggy DIY amateurism when approaching even the most dangerous of set-ups. When Steve-O, for instance, gingerly begins a tightrope walk across a pool full of snapping alligators (showing no balancing-act dexterity), his Jackass cohorts excitedly egg on the reptiles. This very lack of contrivance is, of course, as much a stylistic front as any other, and it's worth noting that Jackass grew out of the West Coast skateboarding scene, where attention-grabbing acts of agility - on evidence throughout - have always been couched in a certain stoner haze.
This said, there's an unmistakeable edge of pain and physical danger to some of the knockabout, which is perhaps why much of it is so compelling. The stitches that Knoxville sustains, shown in excruciating close-up, having recklessly challenged a heavyweight boxer to a scrap certainly don't look fake, nor does his pain on being shot in the stomach with an anti-riot bullet. Given mainstream action movies' preference for clean, CG-assisted stunt work, there's something satisfyingly old-fashioned about the robust, low-tech bodyslamming on display here.
It goes without saying that much of this is pathologically puerile, relentlessly unedifying and in dubious taste, but there are more than enough compensating laugh-out-loud moments (for this viewer, at least). Like most hidden-camera shows, Jackass flatters us by letting us in on the joke. At one point, Knoxville and his camera crew hide in the bushes of a posh golf course, blowing a klaxon to throw the players off guard just as they are about to swing their clubs. The gag hardly scores points for originality, but it works thanks to the giggly sense of complicity we have with Knoxville and his unsteady camera operator. It helps that the victims react to each sting with good humour (one golfer, for instance, ends up shooting balls in the direction of the pranksters, while, in another skit, a shopkeeper manages an adroit putdown after one of the Jackass gang attempts to make off with an armful of stolen goods). The sequence that earned the biggest laughs from the audience I saw the film with was perhaps the simplest: Knoxville screaming in pain as his friends delightedly apply paper cuts to his feet and his hands. What this says about the lengths he'll go to get a reaction is almost as disturbing as what it says about those of us who laughed.
I dont know how anyone can make a movie like this and it come out good, but they did it. Its not even a real movie, but its so funny. Its so retarded what they do and its somthings noones would ever do if they were normal, but it was just so funny to watch and was just different. Funny stuff.
First of all, the stunts in this movie were completly different to what i expected them to be like. The Jackass team who make the T.V series make a film more extreme than the T.V series. This film was funny as the stunts were painfull. I never thought that Tony Hawk (skateboarding) and Matt Hoffman (BMXing) would make a special apperence in this film. Better than the T.V series.
Why the hell is Jackass listed in the documentary section of Flixster? This movie is so sick, and the stunts are unwatchable. The actors are all strung out on booze and painkillers. Get a life.
I didn't even get to the end of this, from the very beginning I could tell this was going to be utter rubbish. I don't know how people find it funny. You may aswell watch you've been framed, it's funnier and less stupid
Six years on and Jackass does seem aged and tame comparfed to what we all thought when it first came on the scene. Although there are still several scenes in Jackass - The Movie that make me laugh, it comes accross as a bunch of mates having a laugh more than anything. I do enjoy the opening scene also.
That is, if you enjoy watching a bunch of twats getting naked, inflicting pain upon one another and giggling like prats about it- that's right, you'll see people falling off skateboards, you'll see a man piss on an ice cream, you'll see men in thongs, you'll see paper-cuts between both fingers AND toes, and if that's not brilliant enough for you, there's also a really hilarious scene where someone shaves small amounts of hair from his friends' heads, and another where they plant an alligator in Bam Margera's mother's house and she squeals about it for a while. Really this is quality stuff...
The greatest stunt movie of the modern age, Jackass tells the story of a troup of total skater stuntmen dudes who just want to party and hurt themselves, and laugh their butts silly. One of the funniest comedieis of the decade. Based directly on the MTV hit series, Jackass. Johnny Knockville, Steve O, Pontius and the gang leap onto the big screen and break it.
I really liked the original Jackass movie when it first came out, but after watching Jackass 2 it made me see that it wasn't nearly as good. I really liked the golf-course airhorns.
Full of grossness and dangerous slapstick humour, Jackass the movie has to be seen at least once. At least. Just to experience the complete and utter disregard for human safety.
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