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Jackass 3D reviews are out and they're not looking so great. Out in theaters today, Oct. 15, Jackass 3D doesn't set the bar very high. Here's one review, an opinion that actually mirrors many others' opinions about the movie.
It isn't high art. Jackass 3D Review: Movie is "Painful to Watch". It's not smart comedy. And it can be a bit difficult -- even painfully so -- to watch.
This is base comedy, lowbrow on a scale all its own. You can create a legitimate list of reasons why "Jackass" is almost too embarrassing to sit through. Some of us may even buy a ticket with shades on and look both ways as before entering the theater, hoping no one will see us.
There is a definite audience for “Jackass 3D.”
Unfortunately for the makers of “Jackass 3D,” he’s 12 — and I’m not taking him, even if he does clean up his room.
Still, for people who only act as if they’re 12 — the smelliest, stupidest, most idiotically id part of 12, that is — “Jackass 3D” is just about perfect. Particularly if you measure cinematic perfection by how many times a guy gets hit in the groin.
The franchise — which turns 10 this year — began with home videos of skateboard stunts gone wrong, before migrating to MTV.
The concept was absurdly simple: A loose group of friends thinks of dangerous or disgusting things to do. Then someone does them.
A photographer films it all. The subject winces in pain or vomits. Everyone else stands around and laughs.
There’s actually a lot of vomit in “Jackass 3D” and, as you can tell from the title, now it has an extra dimension. As in the first film, things get so disgusting, even the cinematographer gets sick.
This time, though, he throws up in his camera.
“Jackass 3D,” needless to say, is the result.
Believe it or not, there are things to like here. Instigator Johnny Knoxville — who changed his name from Phil Clapp, and wouldn’t you? — has a sort of trailer-park, con-man charm. It’s very clear the rest of the crew — Bam Margera, Steve-O — are genuine friends.
There is a definite audience for “Jackass 3D.”
Unfortunately for the makers of “Jackass 3D,” he’s 12 — and I’m not taking him, even if he does clean up his room.
Still, for people who only act as if they’re 12 — the smelliest, stupidest, most idiotically id part of 12, that is — “Jackass 3D” is just about perfect. Particularly if you measure cinematic perfection by how many times a guy gets hit in the groin.
The franchise — which turns 10 this year — began with home videos of skateboard stunts gone wrong, before migrating to MTV.
The concept was absurdly simple: A loose group of friends thinks of dangerous or disgusting things to do. Then someone does them.
A photographer films it all. The subject winces in pain or vomits. Everyone else stands around and laughs.
There’s actually a lot of vomit in “Jackass 3D” and, as you can tell from the title, now it has an extra dimension. As in the first film, things get so disgusting, even the cinematographer gets sick.
This time, though, he throws up in his camera.
“Jackass 3D,” needless to say, is the result.
Believe it or not, there are things to like here. Instigator Johnny Knoxville — who changed his name from Phil Clapp, and wouldn’t you? — has a sort of trailer-park, con-man charm. It’s very clear the rest of the crew — Bam Margera, Steve-O — are genuine friends.
Here’s a look at what the critics for jackass are saying:
* “While “Jackass 3D” can never be accused of stinting on its spring-loaded arsenal of projectile bodily fluids, neither does it approach that sublime, laugh-until-it-hurts level of gross-out nirvana that made the first two installments so darned irresistible. Sure, there are moments of vintage inspiration — and you’ve never truly seen a ripe outhouse explode if you haven’t experienced it in slo-mo real 3D — but this time around the bits miss a lot more than they hit. Although those aging frat boys once again fearlessly lay their various body parts on the line, this time their hearts just don’t seem to be in it.” [Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter via ABC News]
* “But those Jackasses from “Jackass” aren’t getting better, they’re getting older. Their teeth have all been fixed. Their growing paunches just mean more territory to cover with tattoos. A lot of what was cute when they were comic losers willing to try anything for a laugh a decade ago can seem a little desperate now. The peals of laughter by Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera & Co. motley crew can feel forced, like the sidekicks on a radio “Morning Zoo,” cackling at the boss’s limp jokes.” [Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel]
* “”Jackass 3D” — and the group’s entire oeuvre, if you will — is at its best when it’s about these guys playing well-orchestrated tricks on each other and the world at large. The “High Five” gag off the top — a giant hand on garage-door springs that whaps people to the floor as they’re walking around a corner — is funny every time, especially when Margera gets it with big bags of flour attached. Getting reactions out of strangers always works: In the most effective example, Knoxville — wearing old-man makeup that makes him look like Ted Turner — makes out in public with a much younger girl who’s supposed to be his 19-year-old granddaughter.”
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