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Jackass: The Movie
Paramount Pictures


8.2

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Jackass: Number 2

MPAA RATING: R for dangerous, sometimes extremely crude stunts, language and nudity

Starring Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, Steve-O, Dave England, Ryan Dunn, Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña, and Tony Hawk

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.

GENRE(S):	Comedy
WRITTEN BY:	Jeff Tremaine (television series) Spike Jonze (television series) Johnny Knoxville (television series)
DIRECTED BY:	Jeff Tremaine
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: March 25, 2003 Video: March 25, 2003 Theatrical: October 25, 2002
RUNNING TIME:	80 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

LA Weekly Paul Malcolm

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.

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

One of the funniest films I’ve seen all year.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Provokes a suspense halfway between comedy and horror. I'm not sure if I enjoyed myself, exactly, but I could hardly wait to see what I'd be appalled by next.

Village Voice Ed Halter

Shrewdly, the Jackass gang didn't mess with their established formula in the transition to the big screen.

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

All told, either you get it or you don't. Film critics and senators with election prospects don't. Kids in the mood to laugh at stupid shit for 87 minutes do. I'll toss my hat in the latter ring with glee.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

As much as I laughed throughout the movie, I cannot mount a cogent defense of the film as entertainment, or even performance art, although the movie does leave you marveling at these guys' superhuman capacity to withstand pain. Compared to these jackasses, Vin Diesel is a big, overpaid wuss.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

Unfortunately I can't give this a thumbs-up or thumbs-down; I haven't yet developed an aesthetic that will accommodate a guy firing a bottle rocket from his ass.

Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis

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.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

Like a documentary version of "Fight Club," shorn of social insight, intellectual pretension and cinematic interest. It also offers a supremely literal-minded version of slapstick.

Variety Joe Leydon

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.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter

Essentially a slapstick movie with no plot or -- as my boyfriend called it after recovering from 1½ hours of side-splitting laughter -- "the ultimate big-screen TV experience."

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson

Audience members are likely to feel like they're right there in the picture, suffering for no reason and trying to pretend it's funny.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

To call Jackass: The Movie the worst movie of the year is practically a compliment. This plotless, crudely videotaped collection of moronic stunts is a movie in the same sense that those hideous, velvet depictions of Elvis are paintings.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

This is the biggest lowdown, rotten, disgusting, depraved sideshow in the megaplex. Check your brains, your taste and your self-respect right over there with the bearded ticket taker.

The average user rating for this movie is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 81 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Pat C. gave it a2:
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.

Joe P. gave it a9:
One of the funniest movies of all time. Don't listen to the critics. They are morons. I almost fell over watching this.

Chris D. gave it a10:
Awesome... num 2 is due out in sep 22 o6 the filming starts in jan 06 all the boys are back.

Rico B. gave it a 10:
Greatest movie ever.

Squat gave it a 0:
If having a bowel movement is your favorite thing in life then you might like this "movie".

Mini Jackass gave it a 10:
Pretty damn good.

Jessica C. gave it a 10:
This movie is awesome!! I laughed and cried through the whole thing! Its the best movie ever!!!!

Jackass: The Movie Paramount Pictures

Jackass: The Movie
Paramount Pictures