Midway through the new movie Jackass Forever — the first film in the long-running stunts-and-scatology series since 2010’s Jackass 3D — former skateboarder and original Jackass cast member Chris Pontius addresses one of the fandom’s big concerns for the future.“A lot of people ask, what will Jackass be like once we’re older?” he says. He pauses with a wry smile and says, tongue-in-cheek, “Well, it’ll get more mature.” Then he performs yet another stunt involving his groin. If the Jackass crew, headed up as always by director Jeff Tremaine and star Johnny Knoxville, have dedicated themselves to anything, it’s staying young at heart. Their latest film is an uproarious, adolescent, and at times nauseating display of how time won’t affect your ability to have fun if you don’t let it.
Jackass Forever isn’t a sentimental movie, though. Oh no, it begins with a parody Godzilla sequence where Godzilla (played by Pontius’ penis) is destroying a miniature town by ejaculating on it, until it’s attacked by the giant turtle kaiju Gamera, played by an actual turtle. The close-up of the turtle’s sharp beak spearing Pontius’ flesh is just the first of the many genital-related stunts that make up Jackass Forever.
The film’s stunts have obvious things in common with the ones from previous Jackass episodes, movies, and specials, but the team gets to try more elaborate stunts, constructed with a larger budget. The simple stunt from 2002’s Jackass: The Movie, where snowboarder Ehren McGhehey spins really fast on a playground merry-go-round until he pukes, has been reimagined as an elaborate setpiece where several cast members are strapped into a spinning ride in the desert while chugging milk. As they vomit, gunners in camo shoot paintballs
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