Jack-Ass 3D has Johnny Knoxville Retuning to Madness

It has been 10 years since the first episode of the popular television show “Jackass” was aired on MTV, and eight years since “Jackass: The Movie” was released worldwide, earning $64.2 million at the box office and grossing out audience around the world.

Now, Johnny Knoxville and gang are back for the third installment in the “Jackass” series and are bringing it to a new dimension with “Jackass 3D.”

The movie is filled with everything you have come to know and either love, or despise, from the Jackass crew. As Chris Pontius said in the movie, “It has danger, it has feces, and it has puke. That’s what this show is all about.” The film contains plenty or all.

Steve-O, who at one point in the film asked “Why do I have to be Steve-O?” performs a stunt called the “Poo Cocktail Supreme,” in which he is strapped into a portable toilet full of feces that shot into the air time and time again by bungee cords.
Although the movie delivers laughs from beginning to end, the third installment of the series isn’t as funny as the first two and may have revealed that Knoxville and gang have finally pushed the stunts to their limits.

The show is at its best with the more simple pranks the crew plays on each other. There is a skit called “High Five,” in which a giant hand attached to a garage door spring is used to knock people to the floor unexpectedly, delivers laughs every time. One guy is even carrying bowls of soup when he gets hit.

A skit that has Johnny Knoxville dressed up as old man and making out with a 19-year-old, who he claims to passers-by is his granddaughter, is a great scene in the movie, if only for the reactions of those witnessing the prank.

The movie ends with baby photos of all the cast and crew of Jackass and a sort of best-of-reel, as well. This seems to be the guys saying goodbye and hanging up the towel. Although I have loved the show and the movies over the past 10 years, as have many, I believe it is finally time for “Jackass” to say farewell.