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By Kylee Dawson
4.5 out of 5
Release Date: Friday, September 22
Rating: R
Paramount Pictures, MTV Films, Dickhouse Productions
Could there possibly be anything funnier than watching grown men intentionally hurt themselves on camera? Of course not! Unless they’re also unsuspectingly being hurt by their own comrades. Such a display of sadistic and masochistic behavior has provided the boys of MTV’s Jackass enough new material to make Jackass Number 2, the mack daddy of all documentarian sequels.
After 2002’s Jackass: The Movie, it was only a matter of time before Johnny Knoxville, the show’s co-creator and star, came to his senses and decided to make another Jackass movie instead of trying to nurse his pitiful career as an actor. And Number 2 is probably the man’s best work to date, considering he sustains the brunt of the injuries.
And, though many have gone on to do their own MTV spin-offs, most of the gang is also back: Steve-O and Chris Pontius of Wildboyz, Bam Margera of Viva la Bam, Ryan Dunn of Homewrecker, and original jackasses, Dave England, Ehren McGhehey, Preston Lacy, and, the most beloved dwarf since Mini Me, Wee-Man.
The whole purpose of making a second Jackass movie is to trump the previous with more dangerous, sicker and much funnier material. In Number 2, they don’t just push the envelope. They push the entire post office with plenty more vomit, feces (human and animal), pubic hair, a little urine and a whole lot of horse semen.
“What’s special about Jackass Number 2 is that every single one of us has a moment to be truly ashamed of ourselves,” Steve-O said while introducing the film at a MySpace Black Carpet screening in Hollywood on Wednesday, Sept. 13.
Steve-O, not to be outdone by any other jackass in the grossness department, attempts getting a beer colonic during the segment “Beer Chug.” He also places a leech on his eyeball in India.
Not to be outdone in the pain and stupidity categories either, Steve-O also acts as a human worm during the shark fishing segment by driving a hook through his left cheek. His facial cheek.
 Attribute their presence to the influence of filming animals all over the world for Wildboyz, but bulls dominate in the opening credits and during the segment “Toro Totter,” in which Knoxville gets completely annihilated by one particularly angry bovine once the game is actually over. It’s no spoiler… the bull wins.
Spike Jonze, who played that senile old man on the Powerchair in the first Jackass movie, does full-on old lady boob prosthetics for a number of gags on the public.
Because most, if not all the jackasses are easily recognized by much of the country, it’s become increasingly more difficult to prank the public as they once did. To compensate, they simply prank each other. They even prank within pranks. And it’s brilliant!
Just about everyone is equally picked on (with the exception of Eheren, as you’ll see in the finale), but no one takes it harder than Bam, proving once and for all: Bam Margera is a complete wuss. He cries. On camera. Twice!
It’s easy for Bam to get a kick out of torturing his poor, passive parents and lapdog friends on his show, but when the tables are turned on him and he’s forced to face his ultimate fear (snakes), he totally cracks, acting like the petulant child he is. And it’s freakin’ hysterical.
Besides Jonze, other regulars – animal expert Manny Puig, BMXers Mat Hoffman, and Tony Hawk – make appearances, but none too memorable. Other appearances are made by Three 6 Mafia, John Waters (for the only semi-pornographic scene), and a very, very confused-looking Luke Wilson in the closing credits. The best cameo, in a terrorism fueled finale, is with Super Trooper Jay Chandrasekhar, who directed Knoxville in last year’s, The Dukes of Hazzard.
Knoxville made a number of appearances on Wildboyz when they filmed in Indonesia and parts of the U.S. But, while filming the show in Russia, Jackass director Jeff Tremaine suggested Knoxville make another movie. After six months of filming, which wrapped in June, Number 2, containing the funniest Jackass material on record, is the result.
Now that Knoxville has been bitten by the Jackass bug again, we can probably expect Number 3 by next year. And, possibly, even a resurgence of the television series.
Just imagine all the stuff that didn't make the final cut of Number 2. Then pray that the Unrated DVD comes out before Christmas.
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