I left the La Paloma Theater, after seeing Jackass: The Movie, with two very conflicting feelings. I wasn’t sure whether I should reminisce, and laugh my pants off, or go throw up in the bushes on the side of the road. I can honestly say this is the most disturbingly gross, yet unbelievably funny movie I have ever seen, and probably will be for some time. The cast of MTV’s “Jackass” took a great comedic idea, and turned it into a lewd, hour and a half showing of immature men prancing around naked, eating their own pee just for laughs. Just thinking about it makes me shiver.

     In case you haven’t seen the controversial television show “Jackass,” I will introduce you to this obscenely gross material. Appearing in the film, is a cast of about a dozen grown men who are paid thousands of dollars to do stunts that are embarrassing, painful, and even dangerous some of the time. All of which are just flat out disgusting.  Most of these stunts are, indeed, very funny to watch. Example: Ryan Dunn gets his butt kicked by a professional woman kick-boxer. Some make you want to puke, though. Example: Ryan Dunn also shoves a toy car up his ass. Unless you count the displeasing facial expressions coming from Bam, as he inserts the car into his anus, as acting, he is a terrible performance. Every member of the cast is crudely inane.

     For the first half hour, I will admit that I was having a great time. The entire theater was filled with laughter as Johnny Knoxville and the gang performed all sorts of crazy and embarrassing stunts. It seemed as though it was going to be better than I expected. You’d be surprised at how hard people laugh at crazy jerks packed into a shopping cart, flying down a gigantic hill! But, please, don’t ask me to go into detail about what happens in some of the other stunts. The sickly procedures that these dorks perform is better left up to your imagination.   

     There are some scenes that just leave us puzzled. They are supposed to be funny, but turn out to be downright confusing. For example, in one skit, the crew invites professional skater boarder Tony Hawk, and professional biker Matt Hoffman to accompany them in a stunt. They want these two to come skating and biking with them in a closed skate park, while wearing extremely large fat-suits. For five minutes, I watched nuts, wearing fat-suits, skateboarding and BMXing. I don’t understand how this is supposed to be amusing. They barley even fell of their bikes and boards in these oversized pieces of clothing! Material that isn’t comical, or sickly, drags this film down; it is the worst it could possibly be.

     The 1 ½ bucket rating I did give Jackass: The Movie is actually quite generous. During the film, I saw several walk out of the theatre with an overblown look on their face. I’m glad that I didn’t take in any popcorn before the show, because if I had, bad news would’ve ensued. I, myself, wanted to leave the theater. Not only because it was gross, but because the cast is so dumb and immature. I strongly urge you to not see this film. There are the only three reasons why anyone would want to see it:

1. They somehow find a copy of the film, with all the disturbing stunts edited out. Only the few comically pleasing scenes remain (which means it would only be about 45 minutes).

2. They read this review, and their curiosity is just overwhelming them. They feel that they must put their self through the torture of watching the disturbing occurrences in the movie.

3. They are being paid millions (literally millions; not thousands, not hundred-thousands, but millions) to see how much toilet humor and dancing naked men they can endure before vomiting.

-Daniel, Bucket Reviews