Jackass - The Movie

Starring: Johnny Knoxville, SteveO Director: Jeff Tremaine Original UK Premiere: 2003 Dvd Release: 11th August, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: English

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Jackass is a half-hour television series, originally shown on MTV & first produced in 1999 in which a group of grown men do various humiliating, dangerous and/or ridiculous stunts for fun. Its target audience is mainly boys, especially teens. The show ran for three seasons, the first episode aired on April 12, 2000 & the 25th & final episode aired on February 17, 2002. The Movie, which was essentially an extended, uncensored episode of the TV show. Johnny Knoxville, the nominal presenter of Jackass. Preston Lacey - more often than not chasing Wee Man in the big fat bloke chasing the midget sketches. Jason Acuņa a .k .a. Wee Man - more often than not being chased by Preston Lacy, as above. Phil & April Margera - Bams parents and, more often than not, stunt victims. Plunger Wake Up - Bam silently goes into the room where his father, Phil, is sleeping, carefully places a stereo on Phils bed & turns it on at full blast. When Phil wakes up, startled, Bam bangs on a pot & uses a plunger on Phils face.

Warning from Paramount Home Entertainment : The stunts in this movie were performed by professionals, so neither you nor your dumb buddies should attempt anything from this movie.

Some critics see the success of Jackass: The Movie as the last nail in the coffin of civilisation, & theyre probably right. This compilation of pain-inflicting stunts & embarrassing pranks has no artistic merit whatsoever . Among other things, Johnny Knoxville & 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; & get done up in realistic old age makeup so that they can race each other in motorized wheelchairs, among other goofs. Its a weird mixture of machismo & masochism, adolescent recklessness & frat-boy homoeroticism, & some day someone will write a doctoral thesis about how Jackass relates to our safety-obsessed society; in the meantime, just enjoy.

Steve-O was a member of the cast of MTV s Jackass & is currently seen in the TV show Wildboyz. Steve graduated from Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Clown College in 1997. However, he was not one of the ten chosen to join the circus. The Movie. After Jackass Steve released a number of DVDs showcasing his stunts. The Steve-O Video, was simply a ragtag collection of footage that couldnt be played on TV. The Tour, follows him on his journey aross America performing his live stage show, Dont Try This at Home. Out On Bail, follows Steve & his crew across the globe on the Dont Try This At Home Tour. In August 2002, Steve was arrested for performing his now infamous stunt, The Butterfly, in which he staples his scrotum to his leg. Steve-O has also been arrested for various other crimes, mostly for drug possession Steve-O has the phrase Yeah, dude! I rock! -Steve-O & a larger-than-life portrait of himself with two thumbs up tattooed on his back.

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