If you're ever considered whether a port-a-potty would make a good catapult, this is for you. Ps it does.
Is this the future of cinema? Let’s hope not. But the concept of grown men debasing themselves for your viewing pleasure is proves worthy of one more go-around. Thank God it’s not in smell-o-vision…
The problem with this Jackass, as always, is that it lacks any kind of narrative. It’s just one stunt after another.
I think posterity will set him alongside French surrealist Benjamin Péret, famously photographed in the street shouting insults at an astonished and outraged priest – for the sheer, anarchic hell of it.
You either enjoy the Jackass brand of humour or you don’t. Fans will find much to chortle at here; others might like to join the ranks of health and safety inspectors everywhere and stay well clear.
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It showcases the most pointless use of 3D in movies.
It made me ashamed to be male.
It's every bit as anarchic as the last three movies with the guys egging each other on before collapsing in laughter at the results.
This is cinema as circus freak-show entertainment and it succeeds gloriously on those terms.
Is this just the equivalent of movie stunt artists having macho fun at one of their annual summer gatherings? Or is it something more sinister, but with moralistic undertones?
Relentlessly juvenile, unapologetically crude, and indecently funny
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