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DVD Review: Jackass 2.5

Written by David L. Miller
Published December 18, 2007

Those Jackass boys have an impeccable sense of timing. On December 26, after you have filled your stomach to capacity with leftovers, Knoxville and his dumb little buddies will top off all that Christmas cheer with a healthy serving of Jackass 2.5.

Why 2.5?, you might be wondering. Well, this straight-to-DVD release is a culmination of all the juvenile shenanigans that hit the floor in the editing process of Jackass Number Two, resulting in roughly an additional hour of footage.

I guess the boys figured they could, perhaps, cash in on a separate release instead of including this footage as bonus material on the Jackass Number Two DVD, but I digress.

The film opens via another staged intro with Knoxville as a drill sergeant in front of a ridiculously large American flag announcing his men to an unseen audience. The rest of the Jackass crew comes out in nothing but military-style shirts and thong underwear. At Knoxville's command of "at ease," they all relax and then hit each other in the testicles. It's not as funny/entertaining as the intros to the first two films, plus it's funnier if someone gets hit between the legs when they're not expecting it. Overall, not as much effort was put into this intro as in the past.

The first skit depicts Preston Lacey as King Kong, but he has a fear of heights. The latter is what makes the skit humorous. To see an overweight man painted to look like a gorilla on top of a port-a-potty while having a panic attack is pretty damn funny. I know it's wrong to laugh at the misfortunes of others, so I guess I'm a terrible person because I laughed pretty hard, especially when he fell.

What follows are several brief, random skits such as Bam flying a kite out of his anus, Wee-Man as a bullfighter, and dizzy boxing, but the first skit to make you cringe (at least those of the male persuasion) comes when Knoxville gets a prostate exam at a sex museum in Russia.

Male nudity and homoeroticism abound in this film like never before, and I'm sure many fetishists will be pleased as well.

As mentioned above, Bam does his kite flying trick, we get extended looks at the penises of Wee-Man, Knoxville, and Bam, there's a segment devoted to Dave England's ability to defecate on command (We get a demonstration, but the concept doesn't make sense. Either you have to go, or you don't), and Preston Lacey's testicles get some screen time due to a close-up shot of him getting shot in his posterior with a phallic-shaped projectile.

Even Beavis & Butthead creator Mike Judge got in on the "nether region" activities. In an effort to induce a fart, he pumps air into Lacey's anus by penetrating him with a fireplace bellows. When the bellows idea doesn't work, Steve-O completes the mission with a standard drinking straw.

The special features include the making of Jackass 2.5, the making of the Jackass video game, additional footage and interviews, jackassworld.com, and a photo gallery.

Although the excitement of the Jackass phenomenon wore off long ago, it's still highly entertaining to witness the "jackassery" in which these fellows indulge. Embrace the inner-deviant that is in all of us and be sure to check out Jackass 2.5.

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David Miller was born in Lawton, Oklahoma and now lives in Norman, Oklahoma. He is pursuing a professional writing degree at the University of Oklahoma.

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DVD Review: Jackass 2.5
Published: December 18, 2007
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Section: Video
Filed Under: Video: Comedy
Writer: David L. Miller
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