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You either love or you hate Jackass,
and the sad fact is, even if you do put in enough effort to utterly detest the
moronic goings-on of Knoxville, Steve-O and Bam... deep down inside...
we all wish the we were the ones that were doing it!
The blatant grab for cash that is Jackass 2.5
is, sadly, a bit of a let down. The upside is that at least the
on-screen stars are quite happy to openly admit that everything seen on
2.5 is sub-par or plain, downright lame. So why release it?
After becoming sensations via MTV, the Jackass
crew took home a $70M pay packet thanks to the 2002 movie version
(supposedly an end to all the madness). But, just like Cher, there's no
such thing as a final goodbye - and in 2006, the boys returned with Jackass Number Two. The flick, of course, made a bundle of money (out grossing their first outing by at least $10M).
The idea behind this DVD release is essentially: What wasn't good enough to make it into the movie is good enough for DVD.
So
what we have here, is literally, a 90 minute disc of 'Deleted Scenes'
with interviews sliced in between as to why they were deleted - with
pretty much every single explanation usually culminating in: "It was so
lame, even when filming it, we just knew it was going to end up being a
DVD extra".
Of the 90 odd minutes on offer here, there are
really on three or four "stunts" which really warrant any laughs - or
slightly compare to their previous work. Bam's drunken attempt to fly a
kite using anal beads, a rusty bed of nails, Beavis & Butthead
creator Mike Judge forcing air into a midgets butt and a fat guy
getting shot in... the butt are the only high points (and I use the
terms loosely) in what is otherwise a pretty tame adventure.
The most upsetting thing seems to be realising just how sad the whole exercise seems. In Jackass'
hayday (and I'll happily admit I was a fan), they were stupid and young
doing it for the fun of it. Now it's guys in their 30s - who are
probably too rich for their own good - doing it for money in their time
off from their various (and far superior) TV series. And for the most
part, it just seems forced.
Hopefully this isn't the note they leave the Jackass
franchise on, it's like a deflated once-mighty balloon. Do yourself a
favour and revisit the original series and movie and discover the
inspired insanity and fun of drunken fools before they became jaded
Hollywood stars.
EXTRAS
The
feature itself is, in a way, a special feature. In fact, it really
should have just been repackaged as a Special Features disc on the Jackass Number Two release - but I digress.
Included
here is "The Making of Jackass 2.5" (which is pretty much exactly the
same as the feature, with a few extras lines of interview and footage
here or there), making it kind of redundant. There's also "The Making
of Jackass the Video Game" as well as a slew of bonus segments, photo
Gallery and Easter Eggs.
Not terribly bad, not terribly good - let's just say that the world wouldn't be missing out on much if it never got released. Conclusion:
Movie 65% Extras: 65%
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