Toilet humor makes triumphant deuce with Jackass Number Two

Jackass Number 2
Reviewed By: Eric Judd
Lindenwald Ledger
Senior Writer
Monday, October 9, 2006

Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Ryan Dunn
Crew: Director/Writer, Jeff Tremaine

Running time: 1 hr. 35 min.

MPAA Rating: R

Judd's Rating: /7
 

What would the movie industry be like without all of the remakes of remakes? Hopefully more movies like Jackass Number Two  would populate those bitchin IMAX 3Ds.

Not that duplication of this movie is possible, but other movies that inspire that “think like there is no box” mentality are what moviegoers crave.

What makes the Jackass duology so successful is that lack of duplication. The chances of finding another group of guys or girls willing to ignore the potentially fatal side effects of inhaling poo fumes or blindfolding yourself in front of a bull with rope around the junk are next to nothing; and anyone who tries this stuff usually ends up in two pieces on infomercials warning against such stunts.

The same gang from the first movie and the television series hold solid here, with only a few fresh names replacing some familiars.

Regardless of whether or not extreme toilet humor and utterly pointless stunts may lead to the decline of Western civilization, I ask you to ponder one tasty little morsel of trivia: The Grapes of Wrath was banned from schools. Steinbeck and Knoxville may hold strong as absolutes

when poetic license is involved, just know that good art is usually hated at its roots.

I’m not trying to say here that Jackass Number Two deserves a spot in the literary cannon, nor am I suggesting that school teachers allow their students to stick private parts to ice sculptures during show and tell; however, I am saying that the vast majority of people in the U.S.A. should lighten up.

Movies and CDs aren’t the reason behind murders and potato gun deaths, so let art speak for itself, controversy is everywhere. As Chris Rock once said…”What was in Hitler’s CD case?”