The Jackass movies really resinate with people in there thirties and forties and have even made there way into Gen Z and Millennial culture. Jackass Forever was essentially a culmination of the films as a new crew of risk takers stepped in; ones that grew up on Jackass and aspired to be like Johnny Knoxville and Dave England.
Growing up, after you saw the first Jackass, you and your friends definitely thought “We can do that.” At least my buddies and I did and we were completely wrong. After one of you wears some old hockey equipment and you tackle them for the ninth time, your realize you’re going to leave it to the professionals.
Disclaimer, there will be spoilers.
My dad, who showed me the first Jackass movie when I was probably in fifth or sixth grade, and I went to see the motion picture on Wednesday night and thank God we were the only ones in the theatre. From start to finish, we were howling in a massive theatre all by ourselves.
The movie begins with original crew member Chris Pontius sticking his dick through a table. Now it wasn’t just his flesh colored member through the table, it was painted green to look like Godzilla as it attacked a small claymation city. The crew then set up a city set where the “army” led by Knoxville tried to take down this monster that was shooting white cream on them.
Jackass is known for its hysterical opening scenes and holy shit this one didn’t disappoint.
The scene that had my dad and I clutching each other in tears was titled “Silence of the Lambs”. Knoxville told crew members that they were doing a rattle snake stunt, but instead, him and Pontius hid behind a wall and cut the lights on the members two at a time. They removed the snakes from the room and replaced it with rubber snakes and a noise maker.
When the lights went out and the members were locked in the room, Knoxville and Pontius popped out with night vision goggles and began to torment the crew members. Knoxville would hit them with sticks, tase them, and toss rubber snakes on them while playing the hissing noise. For Pontius, he stood in the corner of the room with his penis tucked between his legs like Buffalo Bill dancing back and forth. I was CRYING.
New crew member Zach Holmes was able to find a door to escape what Knoxville called “hell”. As he stumbled through the door, he banged his head on hanging pots and pans and then climbed over a wall that was littered with tacks and mouse traps.
It was awesome.
Another great sequence was when Ehren McGhehey, who got the worst of it in the movie, did the Cup Check Gauntlet. He was punched in the pecker by UFC Heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou, had a softball pitched at his nuts by Arizona pitcher Danielle O’Toole, took a slapper to the schlong from P.K. Subban, and had a pogo stick bounced on his balls.
Ehren also was in a competition with new crew member Jasper Dolphins father, Dark Shark where they wore giant clear helmets that connected and had a spider dropped into it. They then had to blow on it to see which helmet the spider would crawl in. Dark Shark lost, but they then pinned Ehren down and had the spider bite his nipple.
Finally, Ehren was forced to take a lie detector test where he was strapped down with an electric collar on. When he was strapped down, Knoxville covered him in salmon and honey and a massive grizzly bear was released in the room where it almost bit his penis off looking for more salmon.
What was great to see was the new crew member assimilate with the old guard of Jackass members. New addition Rachel Wolfson licked a taser for the Silent Mime challenge and had a scorpion sting her for lip botox.
“Poopies”, another new member also participated in the Silent Mime challenge where he let a snake bite him on the lips not once, but twice.
An old staple returned to Jackass as Knoxville who is currently fifty got in the ring with a bull. This time he played the role of a magician that tried to subdue the large animal, but ultimately failed. He got knocked out, broke his wrist, and fractured a rib in the process.
One weird thing to see was sober Steve O. While I am happy that he’s alive and well, a clean cut Steve O was not what the audience was used to. It’s definitely a selfish thing to think that “Man, I wish he was still this wild man that was drugged out.” but it is what the audience grew up seeing. Hey participated in some stunts including the Silent Mime one, but it just wasn’t the same.
An aspect of the film that I enjoyed was the celebrity cameos. I mentioned prior how Ngannou, O’Toole, and Subban made appearances, but other famous individuals were seen in the movie. Eric Andre got nailed in the face with a blowup while getting coffee, Rob Dyrdek helped host a segment of musical airbags, MGK biked against Steve O, and Tyler the Creator got zapped while playing piano.
On that topic of Tyler the Creator, he led up one of the funniest scenes in the movie. Following him electrocuting Preston and Jasper and actually getting electrocuted himself, he and the entire crew watched as Dave England sat down to what he thought was an interview about the movie series. Instead, he had gallons of pig cum dumped on his head and was stormed by Tyler the Creator and the whole crew. Watching the set up, you were just waiting to see when it happened and his reaction and boy, it didn’t disappoint.
Seeing this with my dad made my ecstatic because he’s the one who introduced me to Jackass and we finally goto sit together in the theatre and watch a brand new movie from these risk taking maniacs. Unreal movie and one I recommend to anyone.