Jackass Forever Review: As Good As A Film About People Getting Punched In The Nuts Can Be
A shaky camera, frenetic cuts, whip pans, and crash zooms show a city besieged by a large green monster that looks a lot like a dick. It is a dick. It’s Chris Pontius’ dick dressed up as Godzilla - Cockzilla - maneuvered with puppet strings. People get blown up, thrown around in a portaloo, and covered in cum. The opening scene of Jackass Forever shows the cast hasn’t matured one bit in the ten years since Jackass 3D, and that’s exactly why we love them.
Jackass Forever is a series of stunts, perfectly paced as the bigger, more elaborate ones are punctuated by short clips of someone in a fist costume ramming a cyclist off their bike and Steve-O getting nailed with a volleyball as he unsuspectingly exits his trailer after taking a dump. This mix of long and short clips stops the slapstick humour from ever feeling repetitive or dull. My favourite gags were the simplest - an inflatable tube knocking someone over as they get coffee or Johnny Knoxville randomly tasing a member of the cast as they all laugh at someone else’s pain.
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One set-piece saw Knoxville dressed up as a game show host while Aaron Homoki, Wee Man, and newcomer Poopies stand above what I can only describe as penis height flip flop mousetraps, designed to slap them in the gonads if they got a question wrong. The camera panned around to reveal the rest of the cast sat in a living room, watching giddily and laughing hysterically when Knoxville hit the wrong button, sending Homoki writhing to the ground. It’s clear they’d be doing this without the cameras present, and their energy and love for what they do are infectious.
There’s a cathartic joy in
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