Jackass Movie Reviews

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MTV Jackass, Vol. 2
Released in DVD by Paramount Home Video (10 December, 2002)
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Starring: Johnny Knoxville
When Andy Warhol made his prophetic comment about fame, he could not possibly have anticipated the lengths some would go to get their 15 minutes. Consider Johnny Knoxville and his posse of merry pranksters. These are America's funniest home videos, a generous and representative sampling of segments from the notorious MTV series Jackass, which capture men behaving very badly, and very stupidly. Knoxville and company are mostly content to do injury to themselves and each other (their poor and battered groins alone must be eligible for combat pay). Other segments have a demented Candid Camera quality. In one, Chris Pontius dons a werewolf suit and runs amok through London. In another, two hockey players continue their "fight" inside a store. Throwaway bits, such as the popping of a blackhead, cleanse the palate between stunts. As one observer notes: "You'd have to be an idiot to try this." Watching this, however, is another matter. And by the way, there is no volume 1; go figure. --Donald Liebenson
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It'd be better if they could use the f word.
Jackass is what it is. Funny stupid stunts where someone always gets hurt. MTV took Bam Margera's CKYs and Big Brother's skate videos and turned it into mainstream chaos. It is great exposure for Bam, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-o, Random Hero and the rest of the gang. The stunts and pranks are all real. And all are really funny. This is a good DVD. The only downer is the censorship. It is the exact same as the TV show. Bleeped curse words and fuzzed out nudity.
All the crazy stuff they don'y show on TV, they don't show on here either. It is still worth it. If you want movies with real crazy funny stuff that will leave you shocked and in stiches check out CKY 1-4. And Big Brother's Poop.

Laugh out loud!
If you liked the movie, you will like this (albeit tuned down) version i asume is clips from the TV show. No cursing or nudity like the movie, but so what. It's funny anyhow. Many awesome scenes. Be warned however, volume 3 stank. Stick to volume 2

Cringe-Tacular!
Finally, Jackass has come out on DVD. Although there is no Vol. 1 right now, (I don't even know if there really is a Vol. 1 or if it's just supposed to be a joke), Vol. 2 is still a great collection of some of the most outrageous, disgusting, shocking, and disturbing moments from the very popular TV show. Join Johnny Knoxville and his gang of misfits as they do some of the most idiotic things ever to be caught on tape. (But it's hilarious!)

With this collection you'll see stuff like this: The cup test, plunger wake up, the worm trick, bucket cars, red wagon, bikini wax, ice blocking, lawn trap, human bulls-eye, punt return, and many, many more wackiness and chaos.

The DVD has very few special features, but that's okay. All I wanted was the show itself. The features included are a trivia game, photo gallery, and cast bios. Yes, the swears and bleeped out and nude people are blurred out. (Funny how they will censor the swearing from the guys themselves when the music playing in the background is uncensored. Interesting.)

You'll laugh, you'll cringe.... you'll want to hurl after seeing some of the things you will witness. (One I couldn't even watch. I had to skip it. Try to figure out which one it is when you watch it.) "Jackass: Volume 2" is Jackass at its best.

Kids, don't try this at home. I'm sick of all the parents and news complaining about the show because some stupid and brainless moron decided to reenact some of the stunts. Watch it, don't live it. Okay? Okay.

MTV Jackass, Vol. 3
Released in DVD by Paramount Home Video (10 December, 2002)
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Starring: Johnny Knoxville
Volume 3 is everything you want in a Jackass compilation, and more: more arrested adolescent behavior, more outrageous stunts and pranks, more "poo." Pogo-stick skateboarding, ice-block downhill skating, and backwards bull-riding are representative of the way-extreme stunts that have made Johnny Knoxville and his posse folk heroes to Generation BMX. But Jackass turns it up to 11 with its fearless forays into public performance art. In one of the more benign segments, Rick Kosick shaves his head and dons a frightful toupee, which he proceeds to drop in front of people. Funnier are the bits with Knoxville convincingly costumed as a 90-year-old man. In a more grisly segment, Knoxville and a partner subject an unsuspecting carpet cleaner to a bloody scene of escalating mayhem. And it wouldn't be Jackass without frontal assaults on the groin. Guaranteed to get the party started, this volume, at 78 minutes, has tremendous shock value. --Donald Liebenson
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Reallity T.V. at its best
I have not seen THIS DVD but I've seen the show on MTV and I nearly split my sides watching it. please get both Vol. 2 & 3 and the movie when ever it comes out.

The Chaos and Insanity Continues! WOO-HOO!!!
Yes kiddies, if Volume 2 wasn't enough for you, "Jackass: Volume 3" is here to give you more laughs, more cringes, more sickness, and more pain. Some people think the show is utterly stupid and pointless. Yeah.... and the problem is? That's why it's so funny.

This isn't for people with weak stomachs. A lot of the things you're going to see on this DVD are going to make you sick and cringe a lot... but you'll be laughing like hell if you're a sick and twisted S.O.B. like me!

When you purchase Volume 3, expect to see this: Bounty hunter, beard of leeches, full pipe skating, bottle skating, hot dog skate boarding, security guard, nutball, spermathon, fat ---- #2, and much, much more. Once again, nakedness is blurred (not really a bad thing if you ask me) and cuss words are bleeped. Still I do not know why they feel that the actually swearing has to be bleeped out and yet swears in the background music can still be left in. Oh well.

And again, no spectacular special features included, but it's the 77 minutes of hilarity and madness of the actual show that counts. The few features included are things like a trivia game, photo gallery, and cast bios.

So if you think you can take another dose of Jackass, then by all means pick up "Jackass: Volume 3." While it may not be as good as Volume 2, it is still a very worthy purchase. Be prepared to laugh, cringe, and be disgusted. All that fun stuff, right? I thought you'd agree with me.

Kids, don't try this at home. Until you are an actual member of the official show, just stick to watching so I don't have to hear parents and the news complain about how terrible of a show it is. All right? Think you can do that? Great. Thank you.

Don't Try This at Home - The Steve-O Video
Released in DVD by Image Entertainment (27 August, 2002)
MPAA Rating: Unrated
In this uncensored collection of pre-Jackass amateur videos that's not even remotely for the squeamish, Steve-O, one of Johnny Knoxville's more fearless lieutenants, snorts hot curry up his nose, shoots a firecracker out of his behind, becomes a human dartboard, sets his hair on fire, jumps off bridges from atop moving cars, and commits other atrocities we cannot even dare hint at here (a "Career Ender" segment is obscenely graphic). "We don't know how you did that," one impressed, albeit shocked, onlooker states at one point. A more accurate statement might be, "We don't know why you did that," to which Steve-O has a ready answer: "I want to be remembered forever." See? What's to understand? --Donald Liebenson
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Losing My Lunch...and yesterday's Breakfast
The Steve-O DVD was given to me as a joke by a friend when he found out that I was watching "Jackass" on MTV and I had commented that the 'naked guy' (that would be Steve-O, the true exhibitionist of the group; even more so than Chris Pontius' annoyingly unfunny Party Boy) was just a taaad disturbed. He said "If you think Jackass is bad, check this out." After dinner (my first mistake), I put the DVD in and almost immediately my jaw hit the floor and I never retrieved it back. The extent of my thoughtful running commentary was, "Oh my GOD", and "Holy s---!" and the ubiquitous "Eeewww!" My friend wasn't kidding when he warned me that it was worse than Jackass. There's one particularly disturbing video segment titled "Career Ender" that, literally and figuratively, is balls-to-the-wall outrageous and flat-out obscene. If you think Jackass if funny, you'll love this DVD. If you think Jackass of puerile and offensive, then obviously, don't bother watching this. One piece of advice I wish my friend had given me: don't eat anything before clicking on the "Cajun Cooking" segment.

Steve-O Too Hot For TV
Steve-O had loads of footage that he coulden't show on Jackass or anywhere on television so he decided to make his on video. And it turned out to be, "Don't try this at home. The Steve-O Video." The dvd is great. It features the Steve-O Video, Commentary, Behind The Scenes, and the infamous bonus video The Career Ender. This movie proves that Steve-O is the craziest dude on Jackass. Tune in to see hilarious stunts such as, Human Dart Board, Human Urinal, The Fireball, Cujan cooking, jump out of an airplane and great skating by Ryan Simonetti and Steve-O. The movie is hilarious, sick and shocking. If your a die hard Jackass & CKY fan, then this is for you.

THE BEST STUNT MOVIE EVER!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE KACKASS, PAINFUL, ASOME STUNT MOVIE!! I THINK THIS AND THE TOUR VIDEO IS THE BEST EVER!!

P.S. I WAS AT ONE OF THE SHOWS OF THE TOUR HE DOESN'T FAKE ANYTHING!!!

Jackass - The Movie (Full Screen Special Edition)
Released in DVD by Paramount Home Video (25 March, 2003)
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, and Chris Pontius
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
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its a disgrace
This is truly the living end ... When trash like this can be released & be the 3rd highest October release of all time ... well it is quite franky disturbing! The gene pool is in dire need of some cleaning up.

If you don't like it, you haven't given it a chance
Oh yes, I used to be a nay-sayer of the Jackass phenomenon. All i could think was, "What idiots! Who in their right mind would want to hurt themselves?" Then I acctually started watching the show and realized, these guys love it. It's just naturally funny to watch people(who want to) hurt themsleves, acctually succeed and with hilarious flair. I saw this movie with two of my friends the day after Halloween and we had honestly never laughed so hard, or been so grossed out and we spent the rest of the day re-accounting scenes from the movie. If you are not a fan of blood (such as my one friend whom i watched it with when it came out on video) certain parts may be too gross for you. But even I was rocking back and forth in my seat screaming "Oh my god!", when the paper-cuts scene came up (blood doesn't bother me too much). Believe me if you give Jackass a chance and just take it for face value, it's great. Even my friend who hated blood admitted that she liked it (and she is definately not the type to like thsi kind of thing). As for the DVD extras i reccommend the extra scenes, (the failed ending was HILARIOUS i didn't understand why they didn't just put it in the movie) and the commentary by both the cast and Johnny with the Directors (both are hilarious, and i never realized how many injuries these guys had until i heard them go "o thats when i broke my ____"). All around GREAT MOVIE...

kick yourself in the head, Wee Man...
Jackass, as most people already know, is one crazy show!!!! and thats keepin it calm!!! Jackass, and its simply mental frontman - Jonny Knoxville, are regulars on MTV, and it basically a tv show, with a bunch of....., lets say mentally challenged, people who do crazy stunts, without so much as padding, ropes, nets or anything else you would expect, or hope to see, these guys are all out lunatics, goin hell for leather on anything that could, and usually does, hurt them in any way possible!!!

So picture the scene if you will, Jackass - a hit show on mtv all over the world, the mtv boffins and executives, decide to approach paramount pictures to talk about a movie deal, stupid guys, crazy stunts, lotsa money to do these stunts, what do you have??? a hit movie!!

The main psycho's, i mean professionally trained actors, include:
Jonny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera ( a pro skate boarder) and Chris Pontius, and a whole heap (literally!!) of other crazy kids.

So, Jackass: the movie, what exactly can you expect???
A WHOLE LOT OF CRINGING!!!!! especially near the beginning, when the crew decides to retro fit, and abuse an electronic ab machine < yeh it makes you cry thats all you need to know!!!!

Some of the stunts arent really that funny, maybe 2 or 3 of the seemingly endless array!!!
some of the funnier ones to pay close attention to though:
the opening credits are hilarious; and no doubt anyone with a 10 man shopping cart would try this stunt:
golf cart demolition derby; id like to see tiger n faldo go at it like this!!!!
The very last 'stunt'; i wont give this one away, its pure genius, a hint for u though, a doctor who cant believe his x-ray!!!!
The Thai Boxin Chic; proof that equal opprtunity, and maybe the chance of rocky # whatever we are on, could happen with a chic as the lead role
Butterbean; for those of you who watched WWF in the past, get ready for a former performers comeback!!! simply hilarious

So about the movie:

those of you hopin for a script??? dont go to see this movie, the only script is to get Bam Margeras mother to express obscenities on tape, oh and the mandatory nr death stunts the cast performs!!
Lenght; not too long actually, they probably ran out of stunts, or bones to break, its around an 1hr 30 mins, so it puts in a while
the dvd also comes equipped with more out takes and 27 minutes of unrealeased stunts.

Jackass - The Movie (Widescreen Special Edition)
Released in DVD by Paramount Home Video (25 March, 2003)
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, and Chris Pontius
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
Average review score:

its a disgrace
This is truly the living end ... When trash like this can be released & be the 3rd highest October release of all time ... well it is quite franky disturbing! The gene pool is in dire need of some cleaning up.

If you don't like it, you haven't given it a chance
Oh yes, I used to be a nay-sayer of the Jackass phenomenon. All i could think was, "What idiots! Who in their right mind would want to hurt themselves?" Then I acctually started watching the show and realized, these guys love it. It's just naturally funny to watch people(who want to) hurt themsleves, acctually succeed and with hilarious flair. I saw this movie with two of my friends the day after Halloween and we had honestly never laughed so hard, or been so grossed out and we spent the rest of the day re-accounting scenes from the movie. If you are not a fan of blood (such as my one friend whom i watched it with when it came out on video) certain parts may be too gross for you. But even I was rocking back and forth in my seat screaming "Oh my god!", when the paper-cuts scene came up (blood doesn't bother me too much). Believe me if you give Jackass a chance and just take it for face value, it's great. Even my friend who hated blood admitted that she liked it (and she is definately not the type to like thsi kind of thing). As for the DVD extras i reccommend the extra scenes, (the failed ending was HILARIOUS i didn't understand why they didn't just put it in the movie) and the commentary by both the cast and Johnny with the Directors (both are hilarious, and i never realized how many injuries these guys had until i heard them go "o thats when i broke my ____"). All around GREAT MOVIE...

kick yourself in the head, Wee Man...
Jackass, as most people already know, is one crazy show!!!! and thats keepin it calm!!! Jackass, and its simply mental frontman - Jonny Knoxville, are regulars on MTV, and it basically a tv show, with a bunch of....., lets say mentally challenged, people who do crazy stunts, without so much as padding, ropes, nets or anything else you would expect, or hope to see, these guys are all out lunatics, goin hell for leather on anything that could, and usually does, hurt them in any way possible!!!

So picture the scene if you will, Jackass - a hit show on mtv all over the world, the mtv boffins and executives, decide to approach paramount pictures to talk about a movie deal, stupid guys, crazy stunts, lotsa money to do these stunts, what do you have??? a hit movie!!

The main psycho's, i mean professionally trained actors, include:
Jonny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera ( a pro skate boarder) and Chris Pontius, and a whole heap (literally!!) of other crazy kids.

So, Jackass: the movie, what exactly can you expect???
A WHOLE LOT OF CRINGING!!!!! especially near the beginning, when the crew decides to retro fit, and abuse an electronic ab machine < yeh it makes you cry thats all you need to know!!!!

Some of the stunts arent really that funny, maybe 2 or 3 of the seemingly endless array!!!
some of the funnier ones to pay close attention to though:
the opening credits are hilarious; and no doubt anyone with a 10 man shopping cart would try this stunt:
golf cart demolition derby; id like to see tiger n faldo go at it like this!!!!
The very last 'stunt'; i wont give this one away, its pure genius, a hint for u though, a doctor who cant believe his x-ray!!!!
The Thai Boxin Chic; proof that equal opprtunity, and maybe the chance of rocky # whatever we are on, could happen with a chic as the lead role
Butterbean; for those of you who watched WWF in the past, get ready for a former performers comeback!!! simply hilarious

So about the movie:

those of you hopin for a script??? dont go to see this movie, the only script is to get Bam Margeras mother to express obscenities on tape, oh and the mandatory nr death stunts the cast performs!!
Lenght; not too long actually, they probably ran out of stunts, or bones to break, its around an 1hr 30 mins, so it puts in a while
the dvd also comes equipped with more out takes and 27 minutes of unrealeased stunts.

MTV Jackass (Volumes 2 & 3)
Released in DVD by Paramount Home Video (10 December, 2002)
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Starring: Johnny Knoxville
When Andy Warhol made his prophetic comment about fame, he could not possibly have anticipated the lengths some would go to get their 15 minutes. Consider Johnny Knoxville and his posse of merry pranksters. These are America's funniest home videos, a generous and representative sampling of segments from the notorious MTV series Jackass, which capture men behaving very badly, and very stupidly. Knoxville and company are mostly content to do injury to themselves and each other (their poor and battered groins alone must be eligible for combat pay). Other segments have a demented Candid Camera quality. In one, Chris Pontius dons a werewolf suit and runs amok through London. In another, two hockey players continue their "fight" inside a store. Throwaway bits, such as the popping of a blackhead, cleanse the palate between stunts. As one observer notes: "You'd have to be an idiot to try this." Watching this, however, is another matter. And by the way, there is no volume 1; go figure.

Volume 3 is everything you want in a Jackass compilation, and more: more arrested adolescent behavior, more outrageous stunts and pranks, more "poo." Pogo-stick skateboarding, ice-block downhill skating, and backwards bull-riding are representative of the way-extreme stunts that have made Johnny Knoxville and his posse folk heroes to Generation BMX. But Jackass turns it up to 11 with its fearless forays into public performance art. In one of the more benign segments, Rick Kosick shaves his head and dons a frightful toupee, which he proceeds to drop in front of people. Funnier are the bits with Knoxville convincingly costumed as a 90-year-old man. In a more grisly segment, Knoxville and a partner subject an unsuspecting carpet cleaner to a bloody scene of escalating mayhem. And it wouldn't be Jackass without frontal assaults on the groin. Guaranteed to get the party started, this volume, at 78 minutes, has tremendous shock value. --Donald Liebenson

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they're censored!!!
THESE DVD'S ARE CENSORED!!!(thats why i gave them 4 stars)Now i love the show and the movie was awesome, so when i found out these dvd's were coming out, i pre-ordered them first chance i got...later i saw the covers for them, which have a parental advisory on them, so naturally i thought, "FINALLY some uncut jackass!"(excluding the movie). Well now i find out that they are still bleeped! theres nothing i can do now, they're bought and paid for, and im still glad i have them but it should have been stated somewhere that they would still be censored. Also, there is NO added or unaired footage. Everything on here was on tv. If you don't mind the beeps, then they are still awesome! and a final comment for the 2 who say otherwise, volume one will NOT be released next year or anytime for that matter, INSTEAD there are supposed to be full UNCENSORED seasons coming to dvd once the legal situation is solved, key word there "SUPPOSED".

HAHAHAHAHA!!!
I watched the very first episode of Jackass a few years ago and really enjoyed the show, but unfortunately, i myself didn't have cable...so i hadn't watched the show since. but recently i saw the movie. i laughed so hard my stomach ached. so i bought volumes 2 and 3 of the show as soon as i could. they were hilarious. i would have rated them 5 stars only they're edited, so i docked a star. the censors really took away from the whole shock value, and it was disappointing to say the least. but once you get past that it's awesome... plus, steve-o is damn sexy!

hmmmmmmm....
This is a cool wee set of Jackass Seasons 2 and 3, but there is just one problem. And it's quite a bad problem. They are CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That sucks so bad that they're censored, but this is still a cool set for Jackass lovers. If Paramount & MTV won't come out with Uncensored complete Jackass seasons on DVD, then I guess this will have to do. Oh well. It does manage to keep you laughing long and hard though. Damn censors!

Don't Try This At Home - The Steve-O Video Vol. 2
Released in DVD by Red Distribution, In (10 December, 2002)
MPAA Rating:
Average review score:

Waste of time and money
I bought this DVD thinking it would be funny, it's not, it lacks stunts, it's mostly behind the scenes stuff which to be honest is boring. It lacks the comedy of Jackass and what stunts it does have are just not funny. In one scene Steve-o sets a girls chest on fire, I don't find that funny, it's kind of weird.

Am a big fan of the jackass series and I bought this thinking it would be just as good, but it's a poor mans attempt at humour. Mostly Steve-o is out of his head on drugs and it shows alot. I hope the first in the series is better, this was just a waste of money.

1 Star

Shocking! But Somewhat Funny!
Some of the material on this DVD was funny, but not as funny as Don't Try This At Home The Steve-O Video Vol. 1. This one sonded more shocking so I bought it and I was a little creeped out about how Steve-O sets a girl's [chest] on fire(That wasn't funny at all). It still gives me the creeps. And how a guy gets the [stuff] beatin out of him with a skateboard. They show a warning before viewing it and That was not funny what so ever as well as this guy taking the most nastiest [pooh] ever. It goes all over the bathroom stalls. It's not really something to look forward to. I did however like 3/4 of it though. So if you like shocking/supposedly funny stuff then check this one out! Some of the stuff was stupid I had to laugh, but if Steve-O comes out with a Vol. 3 I would most certainly buy that too because it seems he puts the nastiest material on Vol.2 and it just makes since that if a Vol.3 came out. It would be even worse! But I do give him credit!

Better than the first!
The second Steve-O Video. This video is about Steve-O and his crazy tour around America. Performing crazy, shocking and hilarious stunts. Featuring Jackasses Wee Man, Ryan Dunn, Bam Margera, Preston Lacey and skaters like Ryan Simonetti and Preston Acuff. This has more stunts than the first and is guaranteed to shock you. This video also has tons of behind the scenes footage and more girls. Tune in to see: Ti*s on fire, Trash Cans, Steve-O's eviction party, more skating, rental vans being destroyed, lighting nuts on fire, breaking mircrowaves, the fireball stunt, and many more. If you liked the first, then you'll love the second. I never get sick of watching it.

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