Jackass - The Movie (Widescreen Special Edition)

SPECIAL FEATURES
Commentary by director, cinematographer, and Johnny Knoxville
Jackass cast group commentary
MTV's "Making Of Jackass The Movie"
Outtakes
27 minutes of additional footage
Jackass The Movie promo spots
Music video: "If you're gonna be dumb" by Roger Alan Wade
Music video: "We want fun" by Andrew W.K.
Theatrical Trailer
Cast & crew biographies
Photo gallery
English subtitles

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Some critics see the success of Jackass: The Movie as the last nail in the coffin of civilization, 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 someday someone will write a doctoral thesis about how Jackass relates to our safety-obsessed society. In the meantime, just enjoy. --Bret Fetzer