My Movie Review: Jackass 3-D

My Movie Review: Jackass 3-D
3.5/5

Opening Statement: The middle aged degenerates are back, this time in THREE DIMENSIONS! Knoxville, Wee-Man, Steve-O, Pontious, Lacy, Bam Margera, Dave England, Danger Ehren, and the rest of the crew document there social interacting through homoerotic activity, painful stunts, insensitive pranks, and overall hilarity.


What's Good: I'll get straight to the point for the Jackass fans, such as myself. I gagged in three skits, borderline vomiting. I laughed at nearly every skit, one particular skit caused tears to roll down my face from laughter. Wether or not you agree with what this crew is doing, it is IMPOSSIBLE not to laugh. When we really dive into what humor is and what it is about, Jackass contains all the elements. Calling it simply Shock Value as an insult will not cut it for a proper critique. This is one of the kind comedy you cannot find anywhere else, with some very odd male behavior and bonding. If you are somehow to uptight or pompous for Jackass, you can at least admire it as a documentary of this bizarre friendship between this group of men.


What's Bad: Jackass does a good job usually of balancing hilarious with gross with painful. It seemed they tilted a little further toward the gross aspect, the hilarity is what I enjoy, the pranks, and I always love a good stunt gone wrong. Gross is fine, but it kind of hurt after awhile. That's more of a personal opinion thing, that I don't believe many other people to agree with. In the end I found it better than the first Jackass, but not as good as the second. It is also sad to see that they are starting to get too old for the more hardcore stuff.


The Rant: I was too young to see the first Jackass when it was released, and I had to sneak in to see the second. I'm glad I finally got to see this one legally. On a side note, I brought up the debate of how there aren't any females in jackass, and how if you put them in the positions of these men, it would be porn. No doubt in my mind NC17 rated porn. Also probably a lot less funny. Being a complete idiot is a very manly thing to do, so I guess it's not a sexist thing that there are no women. It's more against men, which I am not offended whatsoever. Not really a rant just something to think about I guess.


Oscar Possibilities: I want to live in a world that one day will accept Jackass as a Documentary possibility, much better than half the documentaries that do get nominated.


Consensus: Knoxville and friends prove people wrong by not being too old. They are still being trampled, getting hit in the nuts, and having a damned good time going through all these bizarre adventures. A very hilarious documentary about friendship.