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Jackass Number Two
- Directed by: Jeff Tremaine
- Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O
- Release Date: 26 March 2007
Knoxville and co swap tomfoolery for psychological bullying with disturbing results
What has happened to Johnny Knoxville? In the four years since the first Jackass movie he seems to have turned from cheeky skater to dead-eyed psycho. I'm blaming rumoured extra-marital squeeze, Jessica Simpson. Where once Jackass was about pissing around with skateboards and human fluids it seems to have morphed into a real-life Room 101. Why not lock people in a car and then fill it with bees? How about putting a crying Bam Margera and a cobra in a cage together to see who survives? And then, for the encore, lets make someone think they are about to be executed by an irate taxi driver. The japes.
Then there's the hidden-camera stunts. Anyone who has seen Three Non Blondes will testify that it is very difficult to do this kind of thing well and so setting loose a bunch a of skaters in prosthetics on the streets of LA is a gamble. The finished article makes you nostalgic for the days of Beadle digging up someone's garden.
However, for all the evident horror, this film still has some priceless
moments. You can spend all the time you want crafting a joke or sketch but
will it really ever be as funny as someone rodeo-riding a fire hose, jetting
off a pier in a shopping trolley or using a see-saw to escape a charging
bull? Probably not.
Josh Widdicombe
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