Jackass Forever * * or (*****)

Yep, that's right - two stars or five.  

I saw a two star film. But I've only myself to blame.  More fool me for going to see a film where men in their forties and fifties are playing with their penis's, farting, vomiting and deliberately hurting themselves for our amusement. But for many a boy between the ages of 7 and 14, this would be five stars all the way!

The Jackass Boys were famous twenty years ago for their antics. They retired. Rightly so.  Now they have come back.  God know why.  Money I suppose.  They are more pathetic than ever.  Their  obsession with their own genitalia says it all.  Now that they are ageing they are probably learning  their dicks don't work as well as they used to.  Might as well do something else with them - like smash them up. 

 Self harm is fun!

Interesting thought - There were a few young women in the cinema laughing their heads off, but what if they made a film on women smashing their vaginas, and men were paying to go laugh at it?

How would it be received? What would be the political implications of that?  Would it be declared the ultimate in symbolic misogyny and banned?  

Save that thought for another day.  Maybe it wouldn't happen.  It doesn't seem a girl thing.  Having said that, they do have a new member - and it's a girl.  She does "Scorpion Botox".  Swelling her lips with scorpion stings.

I don't know why, but grown men often like to go back to being silly boys.  Me too, to be honest - for about five minutes.  But even as an occasional idiot, I really don't know how the Jackass Team could build all that equipment, conceive all those situations, and keep the momentum going to make an entire movie!

One of the team paints his penis and turns it into a little Godzilla, they put their testicles through a hole to be punched up, they put a queen bee on a guys penis so the hive will swarm, they have trivial pursuit where the loser gets whacked in the nuts, they put raw meat on a guys penis and let a vulture loose on him.  They drink milk and go on a roundabout until they vomit, they poo their pants, they electrocute themselves, they throw themselves down water slides into cactus, they pour pig semen over each other, they lock a guy in a darkened room with a live rattlesnake, they fart and fart. And there are heaps more situations.  It just goes on and on. At the end of some stunts the participants get carted away in an ambulance.  A few times you see the film crew throw up as they try to record these antics.

Don't try and criticize them from the obvious stand point. There is nothing you can throw at The Jackass Team.  They are one step ahead of you the whole time. Tell them they're stupid, tell them they're immature, tell them they're disgusting, tell them they're pathetic - and every time they'll come back to you with the same proud answer "Yep, we know!"

They show extreme close ups of their penises, which gives  Jackass Forever an MA certificate.  So, unfortunately, the audience that would most appreciate this - boys under fifteen - can't see it without Mum and Dad.  And what kid would want to go see Jackass with their parents?!  I'd have thought that bad marketing..... Unless.... unless they knew all along that the people who most appreciate their antics are adults. Now that's a worry!