Jackass 2.5 Unrated Review

By Roberto Alvarenga

I guess for what would be to add holiday cheers and gross outs, Johnny Knoxville and the boys give us Jackass Number 2.5 for free online until the end of the year. Very generous of them to give the fans a free nugget and the move also gives viewers a chance to see what didn’t make the theatrical release. Sounds enticing, right? Well, what was promoted to be a gift looks really like a move to purge useless film stock and maybe move what DVD’s are not selling. It seems that showing 2.5 for free online has alternative motives.

It has to be understood that either you love watching these guys or you do not. The Jackass group may not enjoy the same fame they did in the nineties but there is still a fan base for them. Their wild pranks and stunts can always be considered mean spirited, disgusting, and dimwitted but that is where their genius lies because it is always delivered as almost college fraturnity humor that will always get laughs at some point. Their fantastic run culminated in the first theatrical release Jackass The Movie, which turned out to be a surprising hit. Number 2 did not top the first but still enjoyed success at the box office which brings us to 2.5. 2.5 turns out to be the bastard step child of the franchise. The added scenes are nothing more than what didn’t work in the final cut and do nothing to enhance your Jackass experience. As a Jackass fan, you would expect to see added scenes that go beyond the shock value you are accustomed to but what you are treated to is shots of Steve-O, Wee Man, Bam Margera, and friends standing around, laughing between takes on inside jokes of the production, and urinating on each other. As far as the pranks and stunts go, although there are a couple that pretty creative and funny (dizzy boxing is great), most do not help the evolvement of the Jackass antics. The film quickly becomes that joke that is not funny after you have told it more than once.

So how many times can you beat a dead horse? If you’re Knoxville and the Jackass boys, the answer obviously is not enough. Jackass Number 2.5 leaves you with a couple foods for thought: 1) is there anything that won’t find itself in any of these guys’ rectum? And 2) is there anything or anyone that these guys won’t urinate or defecate on? If you have seen both the theatrical releases and the series, feel secure that you are not missing anything here unless you are lucky enough to have absolutely nothing to do for an hour or so. Really, there are only so many times you can stand to watch Bam and Steve-O vomit on themselves, even if it’s for free.

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