jackass forever

I know you just looked down at my rating before you read this review and noticed I gave jackass forever four stars. Four stars?! Am I insane? No, I am exactly sane. Seriously, though, I love Jackass. I just do. Who doesn’t love a good dick punch? I mean, really. Especially, if the punchee doesn’t know it’s coming. Boy, do I love a good sucker punch. My favorite gag from the Jackass series is the Giant Hand. You know the one; the unsuspecting dude walking down the hallway, Johnny Knoxville around the corner, Giant Hand pulled back on a spring, the dude gets in range, Knoxville lets it go, and KAPOW! The dude goes flying back. Gets me every time.

Every.

Single.

Time.

Many of the old gang are back. Along with Knoxville, you’ll see Steve-O, Danger Ehren, Wee-Man, and Chris Pontius. There is some new blood along for the ride, including Zach Holms, Jasper Dolphin, and Rachel Wolfson. I must give a special salute to Danger Ehren because, wow, does that guy go through some shit in this movie. Bless him for it.

You can’t rate these Jackass movies like a regular movie because, I mean, they aren’t regular movies. There’s no plot, it’s just a series of sketches. It’s just one longass episode of the television show. So, do you get to see a lot of dicks being punished (in a stunt kinda way, of course)? Yes, you do. Do you see some new gags as well as some of the old favorites? Yep. In a Jackass movie, what more can you ask for? You could, of course, ask for more scrotum action. Wish granted, friends.

I don’t say this lightly, but I think jackass forever is exactly what we need right now. “But, Sarah Jane, do we really need a movie that just has a bunch of dudes showing their wangs and doing dumb stuff?” you might just be asking me. Yes, friend. Yes, we do. Sitting there laughing for 96 minutes can do a wonder of good. For that hour and a half, I wasn’t thinking about the impending ice storm coming to town. I wasn’t wondering whether my husband made sure our kiddo had finished his math homework (they had, thankfully for them). jackass forever is so fucking funny. All I did for the run time was laugh my ass off.