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  • Starring: Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville
  • Summary: Johnny Knoxville and his crew of crazies take the concept of the MTV show "Jackass" - a bunch of guys doing dangerous and disturbing stunts just to see what happens - and turn it into a movie.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 14
  2. Negative: 5 out of 14
  1. Reviewed by: Pete Vonder Haar
    80
    One of the funniest films I’ve seen all year.
  2. 80
    The Jackass boys achieve true genius, however, when they take their penance public. Before stunned, inert onlookers, these skate-punk Situationists transform official zones of work and leisure -- office parks, golf courses, bowling alleys -- into arenas of dangerous stupidity to remind us that, in the end, we’re all just meat.
  3. At their best, they're closer to the Three Stooges; at their most banal, they're as original as the Red Hot Chili Peppers performing nude with socks on their penises -- It's a hoot.
  4. Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    30
    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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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 57 out of 67
  2. Negative: 8 out of 67
  1. ChrisD.
    10
    Awesome... num 2 is due out in sep 22 o6 the filming starts in jan 06 all the boys are back.
  2. 9
    Jackass might not be the most intelligent movie but there something of genius about it. It takes some of the dumbest things we can do and turns them into something that will make you fall over in laughter. Expand
  3. 8
    The most shocking, gross, hilarious, original and simple movie of the 2000's. You have to admire that these guys made a living doing this, if I had the chance I would totally do most of the sh*t to get money, wouldn't you? Expand
  4. PatC.
    2
    Generally horrible, but with some outrageously original cinematic moments. Everyone will be blindsided by the humor in at least one of the skits. Told almost as a documentary about the hapless, it purports to claim the dumb must be tough, but its underlying message is that there is no limit to the dumbness of the tough. It is clever and inventive, but I don't consider it a movie of critical consequence just because it was released on film stock. The fact that it's generally offensive is completely besides trhe point. It's an assemblage of video clips, period. Expand

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