MOVIE REVIEW: Jackass Forever

Well the cross promotion worked, but what Johnny Knoxville suffered during the night of the Royal Rumble was G-rated in comparison to the brutality that is “Jackass Forever”.
The last time I saw a Jackass film, I really didn’t. I was young , in my teens making out with some girl who happened to be my first girlfriend’s younger sister. She had Jackass 2 and 3 on DVD, but there was no way I was paying attention to the jokes filled with dicks when her lips were right in front of my face. Well, this time on the big screen, front row, with no blonde babe to distract me, there was absolutely no escaping the Jackass crew’s mangled manhood.

I’ve seen some pretty gruesome things in my life growing up where this film had been shot in the sunniest spots of L.A., but never have I seen what I saw at the theater today. A majority of the original crew is there, serving as familiar faces with the only difference to themselves seemingly over the years is that they now sport peppered hair and are more prone to concuss and bleed from the hard hits they have taken over the years in comparison to how they handled the torture earlier in their years as evidenced during the credits montage.

The stunts are evened out, with some softer stunts like surfing a water slide filled with anal lubrication or the opening salvo with one of the casts manhood being used to stomp around like Godzilla through a makeshift city. Points like this are needed as the guys take pogo sticks and MMA hits to their manhood, taser shocks, and insects, bears and buzzards making meals on top of these men’s meat. I can never trust a genital cup or any form of protective gear after seeing this film, where as it waned on every time the host in Knoxville popped up on screen he seemed less and less like an inviting ringmaster and more like an antagonist straight out of “Dante’s Inferno”. With the amount of pornography one can consume with today’s technology, with murders being broadcast live on social media streams, and unfiltered autopsy pictures a click away on your favorite search engine it absolutely confounds me how Jackass Forever is possibly the most vulgar piece of film I have ever seen in my life.

Usually with legacy acts, I tend to go back and retroactively watch a film’s predecessors, but with Jackass Forever I feel comfortable in leaving it at this as I was absolutely enthralled at how much empathy I could feel for the cast and crew who have endured the torture of Tremaine’s brainchild over the years all for the applause that no matter how crude they are, they deserve.

Score : 5/5

Director: Jeff Tremaine

Starring: Johnny Knoxville; Steve-O; Chris Pontius; Dave England; Wee Man; Danger Ehren; Preston Lacy