Jackass: the movie

“Jackass Number Two” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Things you can’t even imagine.

Just about the only thing that could make this movie any gayer would be cameos from John Waters and Rip Taylor and a closing Busby Berkley-style musical production number. Oh wait, it's got those too.

When Waters gazes over the American landscape and sees what his revolution in bad taste has wrought—vast armies of suburban teens lining up to see grown men drink horse sperm, do sadistic things with dildos, and vomit profusely—he must feel awfully proud.

Homoeroticism does have a long history in suburban skateboarder culture(where all these guys come from). hell, my best friend from high school would talk about the weird shit at skateboard camp.

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we saw the first flick in the theater. As my buddy said, "best eight bucks I spent all year"

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John Waters, Johnny Knoxville and "Steve-O" Stephen Glover in Paramount's Jackass: Number Two - 2006

1. Not enough Johnny Knoxville. Bam and Steve-O get more screentime, and the other players get even more than them. I don't mind Steve-O and a couple of the bit-players, but Bam is a bitch for the most part.

2. The Spike Jonze bits suck.

3. Much more mean-spirited and sadistic than the first movie or the TV show. The first one was defensible as physical comedy, pure and simple - I could recommend it to my parents and they loved the movie. This one, not so much, it's got a much harder edge, more gross-outs, and you have to get off (to some degree) on watching people be miserable.

4. Bodily fluids AHOY

and there seemed to be a normal amount of johnny knoxville, unless you are in love with him or something.

and i didn't think it was mean-spirited at all. i mean comparatively.

i think this tops the list of movies i would never want to see while eating...

steve-o gives up the animal stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY_oGot_T4M

best 10-second bit of the first movie

I'd also gladly make Bam my bitch IF I could tape his mouth shut (or otherwise plug it).

seriously? I thought knoxville did way more this time.

two words: TOO SHORT. otherwise, fantastic.

Actually, I'm not sure I really believe this but I kinda do like saying it for the buzzkill.

One key difference between what happens in Jackass and things like cutting is that people who self-mutilate tend to do it in private.

OK, the thing about gay men approving of Jackass is also something of a broad generalization but it's one played out in my small cirlce of friends and...other places.

Dave orders chicken in some deep south restaurant. The man says he knew that's what Dave was going to order. "How did you know that?" Dave asks, surprised. "Because everybody knows black people and chicken go together." Dave says, "I was very upset. I was not ready to hear that. Here I was, thinking I liked chicken because it tasted delicious. Turns out it's because I'm genetically disposed to like chicken. Now I'm afraid to eat it in public. 'Look at him. He sure loves that chicken'"

and well bams uncle?

Just saw this for the first time...at the Museum of Modern Art. (There were old folks who sat through the whole thing, tottered out on their canes.)

I laughed plenty, but it didn't necessarily seem funnier than the MTV eps.

(also flinched most at the paper cuts scene)

Yeah, it was just a good, long episode of the tv show.

why was this at the moma

Jackass 1 = funny prank movie
Jackass 2 = pinnacle of art, Matthew Barney on his best day wishes he could make a movie like this