Jackass Forever and all the images you see in this review are owned by Paramount Pictures
Directed by Jeff Tremaine
This was yet another movie pushed WAY back due to the Pandemic, but honestly the kind of thing I want at this point. Even if things are far from over, we’ve been on a hellacious journey the last two years and a nice little nostalgic throwback like this can certainly lift my spirits; assuming of course they manage to pull it off. All the Jackass movies have worked so far, but can the formula work even when the gang is within spitting range of collecting social security checks? Let’s find out!
The dudes who you know and love from the previous film are back once again to do ridiculous stunts and terrifying endurance tests for your amusement. That’s about all there is to it, and that’s about all there’s ever been to this premise. Film a bunch of stuff, put it in a decent order, and save something big for the very end. Despite such a simple formula, is it something that they can pull off for the fourth time? What new wacky ideas did they come up with in the ten years since the last film? Will any of them live through this to see Jackass 5, or is this as far as we should push it?
Action Point and all the images you see in this review are owned by Paramount Pictures
Directed by Tim Kirkby
Johnny Knoxville doesn’t have what you’d call a STERLING FILMOGRAPHY with his most successful films being pseudo-documentary on shoe string budgets, but then again said movies are some serious box office smashes with the four Jackass movies (one through three and the offshoot Bad Grandpa) making totaling over three hundred and fifty MILLION dollars! Hell, despite the guy getting pretty much ZERO credit as a legitimate actor, he’s managed to find his way in some seriously high grossing blockbusters including Men in Black 2, the first reboot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, and even that crappy Dukes of Hazzard movie which raked in eighty freaking million; not to mention Skiptrace which he did with Jackie Chan that made a boat load in China! I’ve always had a soft spot for the guy as a legitimate actor which may be due to my fascination with A Dirty Shame as well as the fact that I seem to be the ONLY person on the planet who sincerely likes Daltry Calhoun. It also helps that I’ve never seen The Ringer which would probably put an indelible stain on my inexplicable appreciation for the guy because even in 2005 that seemed like a really bad call. So much in fact that aside FROM the Jackass films, this is first film with a wide US release that he’s headlined since then (not gonna count the voice he did in the first TMNT movie) and it seems like even the studio is aware of how untested this guy is when he’s the face of something that requires a script and direction rather than a bunch of nut shots and Tasers because of how little marketing this thing got in the lead up to its release. Does this manage to be a diamond in the rough that will finally launch Johnny Knoxville’s film career, or is this another failed start that will eventually lead to him making another Bad Grandpa movie that will in all honestly probably net him another hundred million dollars? Let’s find out!!
Deshawn “DC” Crious (Phillip “Johnny Knoxville” Clapp) is the owner and operator of the absurdly unsafe and therefore absurdly fun amusement park known as Action Point, or at least Mr. DC WAS back in the seventies when things like “safety” and “regulations” were for pansies while breaking your arm was fixed with a fist full of mud and a forty of garbage beer! It’s not the seventies anymore though as we see DC somehow managed to survive not only that decade but Regan, Y2K, and Bush Jr (SPOILER ALERT!) as he’s telling his granddaughter all about the great times he had running that place and the one summer her mother (Susan Yeagley as an adult and Eleanor Worthington-Cox as a teen) came to stay with him. Yes, they’ll never forget that summer where they had stiff competition move nearby that was syphoning off most of their attendance while also being supported by local douchebag Mr. Knoblach (Dan Bakkedahl), but that only motivated them to get even MORE wild with the rides and skirt even MORE laws in the process! Truly an idyllic time of their lives spent with good friends like Uncle Benny (Christ Pontius) and the rag tag group of teenage rascals who helped DC run the place (Bridgette Lundy-Paine, Johnny Pemberton, Conner McViker, Eric Manaka, and a few others who don’t have extensive IMDb credits). Can DC do enough scheming to save the park from the greedy corporate fat cats? Will this long protracted battle against common sense and sensible safety protocols get in the way of DC being a good father to Boogie? Did you know that Johnny Knoxville’s eye almost popped out of his head during the filming of this!? Seriously, what more does he have to do to prove himself to you people!?
“ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!?” “Eh. I’ve seen better.”
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