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Jackass: The Movie (2002)

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Reviews Counted:8

Fresh:5

Rotten:3

Average Rating:6/10

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.

Runtime: 88 mins 16 secs

Genre: Comedies

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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So what's all the fuss about? If people want to staple paper to their inner thighs, let them. The question is whether you're prepared to pay to watch them do it.

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06/24/06
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
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Outrageously obscene and unflinchingly funny.

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08/01/03
Chris Hewitt (UK)
Chris Hewitt (UK)
Empire Magazine
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There's no denying that it's pretty vicious humour, and pretty puerile too, but like previously successful purveyors of such past-the-U-bend comedy, its fresh-faced enthusiasm makes it invulnerable to... tired accusations.

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03/25/03
Andrew Pulver
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Guardian [UK]
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As brainless as the movie incarnations of both South Park and Beavis and Butt-head, Jackass is just as funny as both -- and better than many of the so-called comedies Hollywood produces.

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01/21/03
Martyn Glanville
Martyn Glanville
BBC
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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.

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10/30/02
Michael Rechtshaffen
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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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.

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10/29/02
Joe Leydon
Joe Leydon
Variety
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Like a documentary version of Fight Club, shorn of social insight, intellectual pretension and cinematic interest.

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10/26/02
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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Every bit as disreputable and often as embarrassingly funny as the MTV program, only longer.

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10/26/02
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
Los Angeles Times
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