Jackass - TheMovie
Johnny Knoxville and his team of crazy people take the concept of the MTV show 'Jackass' (a group of guys doing really dangerous and stupid stunts just to see what happens) and produce a movie version, doing even more dangerous stunts that would not be permissible to show on TV.
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Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) Jackass - TheMovie [2003]
Warning from Paramount Home Entertainment (UK): The stunts in this movie were performed by professionals, so neither you nor your dumb buddies should attempt anything from this movie.<p> Some critics see the success of <I>Jackass: The Movie</I> as the last nail in the coffin of civilisation--and they're probably right. This compilation of pain-inflicting stunts and embarrassing pranks has no artistic merit whatsoever (which doesn't keep it from being freakishly entertaining). Among other things, Johnny Knoxville and his posse get beaten up by a female kick-boxing champion; shoot bottle rockets out of their rectums; run amok in Japan wearing giant panda bear costumes; swim with whale sharks while holding pounds of brine shrimp in their swimsuits; and get done up in realistic old age makeup so that they can race each other in motorized wheelchairs, among other goofs. It's a weird mixture of machismo and masochism, adolescent recklessness and frat-boy homoeroticism, and some day someone will write a doctoral thesis about how <I>Jackass</I> relates to our safety-obsessed society; in the meantime, just enjoy. <I>--Bret Fetzer</I>
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