NOT GOOD FOR ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF 21 WATCH THIS (15 sometimes)
Jackass: The Movie
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Is it any good?
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Common Sense says
More idiotic and dangerous than the show. Really.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 16 and Under
What to watch out for
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of Jackass: The Movie was written by Nell Minow
Parents need to know that this movie earns its R rating due to the excessive display of bodily fluids and use of vulgar language. But there's no MPAA rating that would provide any useful guidance about the movie's inappropriateness for audiences of any age. Parents should know that the movie includes very disgusting and visually explicit gags.
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- Families can talk about the difference between innocent slapstick humor and the kind of slapstick found in this film. When do they take it too far? Why would someone put themselves through these stunts? It's also worth discussing the kids who try to duplicate these stunts (despite the warnings) and end up seriously hurt. Are warnings really enough to stop some kids? Do the makers of these films and the MTV show have a responsibility for the safety of others beyond the posted warnings? Why or why not?
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What’s the Story?
JACKASS isn't a movie in the conventional sense of the word. There's no story, and there are no characters. It isn't a documentary, because it features stunts created just for the movie. What is it, then? An extended, more explicit version of the popular MTV show in which a group of idiotic guys performs idiotic stunts that involve such things as running around in their underwear and puking. Like the MTV show, the movie doesn't have a plot. It documents the same group of people from the TV show, led by Johnny Knoxville, performing extremely stupid and often very dangerous stunts.
Is It Any Good?
Jackass is an endurance contest for adolescents (and perpetual adolescents) and a comedy for people so bereft of empathy that they think it's funny to see people hurt themselves. When deciding whether to see Jackass, you should ask yourself one question: How enjoyable would it be to watch people abuse their bodies to perform stunts in the most grotesque manner imaginable? If you answered, "highly enjoyable and extremely amusing," this is your movie. Anyone else, however, should run screaming in the other direction.
To give you a taste of the movie's humor, one of the stunts involves a man snorting wasabi up his nose and then proceeding to vomit it out. Another stunt involves a man eating a snow cone -- except that in this case the man has urinated on the snow, and therefore knows he's eating his own bodily waste. Another involves a man using the demo toilet in a store's plumbing display, even though it's not hooked up to any plumbing. Then there are the stunts involving stuffing objects not intended for that purpose into bodily orifices also not intended for that purpose. The most appropriate commentary on the movie comes from a cameraman, who becomes so disgusted that he throws up, which, of course, gets incorporated into the movie. Even for people who enjoy bathroom humor, Jackass wears thin because its unremitting brand of literally painful bathroom humor just isn't funny.
Movie Details
Studio: Paramount Pictures, Director: Jeff Tremaine
Run time: 80 minutes
Theatrical release: 10/25/2002, DVD release: 3/25/2003
MPAA Rating: R for dangerous, sometimes extremely crude stunts, language and nudity.
Run time: 80 minutes
Theatrical release: 10/25/2002, DVD release: 3/25/2003
MPAA Rating: R for dangerous, sometimes extremely crude stunts, language and nudity.
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I rate this title off for age 7 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Excessive consumerism
TV-14-DS
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I rate this title on for age 13 and give it
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- Negative role models
Great movie, crappy review.
I give the movie a 4 for hilarity. But I give this site's review a 0. Very sexist, and slightly racist. I've reviewed movies where the women act kinky, and this site's reviews meantion the kinky themes but never putdown the women for their actions like they do for the men.
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I rate this title iffy for age 12 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Negative role models
lol !!! Funny !!!
Im 13 and i watched it, i think it was funny, i've seen worse than this, at age 13 you already know about this stuff ...funny : D
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I rate this title iffy for age 17 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Negative role models
Tons of stunts performed that kids may imitate. It's also pretty gross, definitely not for anyone under 14, even then anyone who has a tendency to imitate should not watch this film.
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I rate this title on for age 11 and give it
get over it
in todays world teens and tweens know alot more than you think and most of them find stuff like this hilarious i watch it with my girlfriends, guys and my boyfriend it just stupid funny stuff. language is not that big of a deal your payin more attentoin to the stunt any ways. overall they do stuf like hit each other in the nuts and prank people. in one they sneak on a golf course and hide and blow an air horn when the guy raises his golf club. just buy the censored version( i saw the uncensored) and you'll be fine
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