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Sadly, you can look
at
Jackass
in a historical
context. It’s true!
Think about
YouTube,
FailBlog,
reality TV,
Facebook,
MySpace,
Twitter,
and everything else
that comes from the
new media and
internet generation…
It all comes from
people wanting other
people to be
interested in them
and being famous for
nothing doesn’t it?
Maybe, that’s going
a little bit
overboard with
‘historical’ and ‘Jackass’
in the same
sentence, but you
can’t help but look
at
Jackass
as being famous
early on in the
reality TV game, and
then the movies
becoming hugely
popular due in large
part to the internet
generation being
infatuated with
stupid things caught
on camera.
Jackass 3
is like
Jackass
and
Jackass 2
before it… the same
dumb guys do gross
and dumb things on
camera and everybody
laughs. That’s the
general idea with
Jackass.
That was the idea
with the TV show and
that’s the idea with
the movies. The best
way to look at this
movie; How do the
stunts compare to
the two previous
efforts? On the
gross scale,
Jackass 2
wins;
Jackass 3
comes in at second.
There are several
gross stunts,
usually with Steve-O
involved and if
you’ve got a strong
stomach you’ll laugh
incessantly at these
skits. They’re
cringe-worthy sure,
but there’s also a
steady amount of
laughs that are
accompanied by
‘why?!?!’. On the
danger scale of
stunts,
Jackass 3
doesn’t really have
as many as
Jackass 2
did either. Don’t
get me wrong,
everything looks
like it hurts, but
it seems like they
were doing stupider
things in
Jackass 2
and they took out a
large chunk of the
action sports
dynamic that
Jackass
and
Jackass 2
had incorporated.
There were some
things, but Bam
spent a lot more
time at the skate
park in the previous
two movies. And to
some extent… that
stuff is missed
here.
As
far as the extras go
on
Jackass 3
there’s an abundant
amount of outtakes,
which aren’t like
run of the mill
outtakes either.
There’s 27 minutes
worth of stunts that
didn’t look good
enough on camera and
things that were too
gross or too weird
to include. There
are also some
deleted
scenes/stunts from
the movie included
on the Blu-ray. The
outtakes are funny
if you’re into some
gross stuff, but the
deleted scenes were
probably cut for a
reason.
Jackass 3
has a decent amount
of extras but it
would have been
cooler to get some
interviews with the
guys and director
Jeff Tremaine. They
could have done
better, but this is
good enough.
Jackass 3
isn’t better or
worse than
Jackass 2
or plain-old
Jackass.
It’s another
installment with
several funny and
gross stunts that
will make you laugh
until your sides
hurt. It’s true that
it’s not for
everybody… really
most people over 45
should just ignore
this altogether, but
like me… several
people will find
this hilarious.
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