Jackass Forever Movie Review

“Jackass Forever” is powerful and moving cinema experience with detailed plotting like Christopher Nolan and acting up to a level equal to Daniel Day Lewis. BWAH-HAA-HA! Fooled Ya! It’s just another great example of the S.O.S. theory. If it worked before, give ’em the Same Old Schlock! At least this movie does prove a point. The point that it proves is that a bunch of Villages are missing a whole bunch of Idiots!

This is by no means a traditional ‘movie’. This is quasi-documentary of how a bunch of stunts, practical jokes, pranks and loony situations can be strung together with no logical meaning. It is basically the same Cavalcade of Crap that has been “Jackass” since its beginning on MTV, back in 2000. Back in those more innocent days, a cable show like this was a popular phenomenon. Nowadays, it is what you see reported on the news or on YouTube.

This is a series of ‘Can You Top This’ type stunts. These are cobbled together segments of anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes long, with nothing but pain holding it together. Pain and personal injury and nudity, that is. The mainstay of the series (and of this movie) is Johnny Knoxville. He has that aura of being the weird uncle that your Mother always told you to stay away from. He and his friends act like a bunch of drunken frat boys on a Saturday night.

Each segment sort of opens up with a title that explains (in a way) what type of dumb thing they are going to do next. Each person (at least in the start of the movie) has a name identified next to them. I guess so you can identify the body at the morgue in case the stunt goes really wrong. Just about every one of these stunts involves some level of self-humiliation, mental anguish or severe physical pain. I guess that would be similar to showing up on the “Jerry Springer Show”…

But, being a ‘Jackass’ movie, this one needs to check off all of the boxes:

• Zero plot development: CHECK!
• Zero character development: CHECK!
• Humiliation and misery on display: CHECK!
• Lowest Common Denominator of Idiocy: CHECK!
• Weird obsession with male genitalia: CHECK!

The opening segment is kind of a parody of the old Godzilla monster movies. But instead of a phony monster roaming down the miniature streets — in ‘Jackass’ they will of course use male genitals covered in a little monster suit. Maybe you should call the creature ‘King Dong’? Oh, and it does not end there. Other segments have a male ‘member’ covered with honey bees.

Not stopping there, some other segments show an amazingly painful-looking ‘paddle’ contraption on a different male protrusion. Then there are two people with the pain-inducing device down attached to the nether regions. They are bouncing a ball and playing Ping Pong with their Ding Dong?

But there are different tastes for different people, I suppose. Some elegant people like chilled Champaign and Caviar. But there are others folks who like lukewarm Pabst Blue Ribbon with Jalapeño Poppers! The people who love this stuff will eat it up. Since ‘Jackass’ has been around for over twenty years, there are some folk who have grown up with these crazy antics and they love it. I understand that when you look up ‘juvenile’ in the dictionary, and there is a picture of ‘Jackass’.  I guess it is OK, as long as these guys have their Medical Insurance paid up. Cause they are sure gonna use it — a lot!

“Jackass Forever” is the only movie that know that stole (excuse me ‘borrowed’) the movie title from the fourth ‘Shrek’ movie (“Shrek Forever After”). Also, there was a movie back in 1974 (called “The Groove Tube” — look it up) that used male genitalia as a prop (and as a character). There is a saying used in weightlifting and bodybuilding. I think this should be adapted for this movie:

“No Pain – No Gain”, here it’s more like “No Pain – No Jackass Movie”.