On the night of Sat, Oct. 23, a couple friends and I headed up to Sunchase 8 Cinema to see the most recent installment of the Jackass trilogy.
I have always been a Jackass fan, contrary to its blatant immature humor, as have my two friends who I brought along with me. I hadn't had much skepticism about "Jackass 3-D" (minus the "D" in our case); I expected the same "poop and puke" humor that we have always seen. I mean, you can only have so many expectations of a movie with the word "jackass" in the title.
The same crew was back: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Steve-O, Jason "Wee Man" Acuña, Preston Lacy, Christ Pontius, Ehren McGhehey, Dave England, and Loomis Fall.
The usual brief involvement of Margera's parents, April and Phil Margera, was included as well. Considering it's been about four years since they're subjected themselves to being in a Jackass movie, I was glad they were being good sports about it again.
There were also some celebrity cameos, such as Spike Jonze and Tony Hawk, who were also seen in "Jackass Number Two." Seann William Scott and Edward Barbanell (who played Billy in "The Ringer") were also briefly seen in "Jackass 3." There's also a whole 'nother handful of "jackasses," who are friends of the crew that participated and been in the past movies.
As far as content goes, there was nothing especially out of the ordinary. They had their usual stunts that included something involving bodily waste, such as strapping Steve-O into a Porta Potty and shooting it 100 feet in the air, which would in turn make the rest of the cast and crew vomit as an array of that Porta Potty's user's excrement came raining down on them. There wasn't a surplus of these sort of stunts, but enough to make me have to look away a few times.
Along with the few "icky" stunts, there were several simple "he-got-hurt-and-it's-funny" stunts involving crashing, falling down, or having a tooth or hair ripped off. At one point Wee Man even "super tacky glued" himself to Preston Lacy. Some of the funniest stunts of the movie were of this painful variety, but I won't ruin it for you.
As seen in the past two movies, there were a few scenes involving rams and bulls charging at an unlucky member of the cast. Although, let it be noted the animals used weren't harmed.
There were a couple stunts involving things being tied to a cast member's sex organ that I thought took it a little too far. It's nothing the viewer hasn't seen in any other movie involving nakedness, but I thought it was somewhat superfluous.
Though the whole movie kept you laughing, it had a very somber, nostalgic conclusion as the credits rolled. Weezer's "Memories" played as they showed a montage of early stunts, images of the cast members with their families, and photos from when they were kids. This ending communicated how much fun they have had together over the years and that, more than likely, this was the third and final chapter of the Jackass series.
Several reviews said this movie had no point. Needless to say, you don't buy a ticket to "Jackass" expecting it to be the next "Good Will Hunting." But for me, this was just the movie I expected and enjoyed: a bunch of jackasses having fun with their friends.
Knoxville performs one of the many dangerous stunts seen in the new movie.
