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Jackass: The Movie

Movie ID: 827

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Release year: 2002

Runtime: 85 mins

Wide release date: 2002-10-18

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Streaming release date: 2012-07-01

Tomatometer final: 49%

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Genres: Comedy, Drama

Directors: Jeff Tremaine

Writers: Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze

Producers: Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze

MPAA rating: R

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Synopsis

In this comedic documentary, Johnny Knoxville heads a crew of stuntmen, skateboarders and all-around lunatics as they prank, embarrass and torture each other in the name of fun. The antics range from childlike -- the boys don panda suits for a romp through Tokyo -- to grotesque and life-threatening. A golf cart demolition derby turns downright dangerous. Live gators nearly chomp maniac Steve-O. Filmmaker Spike Jonze and Knoxville, in heavy makeup, test the public's patience for the elderly.

Consensus

There's a good chance you'll be laughing hysterically at one stunt, but getting grossed out by the next one in this big screen version of the controversial MTV show.

Latest Snapshot / Canonical Review Totals

Canonical reviews: 92

Canonical fresh: 45

Canonical rotten: 47

Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 49%

Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-18 14:01:46

Snapshot Tomatometer: 49%

Snapshot review count: 92

Snapshot fresh count: 45

Snapshot rotten count: 47

Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #1480 (full_snapshot)

Companies

Company Role
Paramount Pictures distributor
Dickhouse Productions production
Lynch Siderow Productions Inc. production
MTV Films production
MTV Networks production
Paramount Pictures production
Polyphony Digital production

Cast

Billing Name Character
1 Johnny Knoxville
2 Bam Margera
3 Chris Pontius
4 Steve-O
5 Dave England

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Latest Canonical Reviews (max 100)

ID Critic Outlet Fresh? Score RT Time Raw Approx Published UTC Quote
181114 Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Rotten 0/4.0 2020-09-12T22:42:34Z 2020-09-12 22:42:34 I can accept that many find this entertaining, however, I'm just not one of them.
181115 Nell Minow Common Sense Media Rotten 1/5 2010-12-24T12:19:02Z 2010-12-24 12:19:02 More idiotic and dangerous than the show. Really.
181116 Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal Fresh 4/4 2010-09-23T20:00:46Z 2010-09-23 20:00:46 Superficial shenanigans don't diminish its effect. It's a ridiculously funny barrage of taboo pranks, practical jokes and tests of both social altruism and Bam Margera's parents' patience - most of it failsafed so that the foolishness never subsides.
181117 Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Rotten 2009-04-29T03:15:50Z 2009-04-29 03:15:50 Trust me, I'm laughing at you, guys, not with you.
181118 Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com Rotten 2/4 2009-01-27T01:20:43Z 2009-01-27 01:20:43 The movie is designed to play for one audience and one audience only: existing Jackass fans.
181119 Philip French Observer (UK) Rotten 2008-05-20T16:42:53Z 2008-05-20 16:42:53 The Jackass boys show little interest in observing anyone else but themselves.
181120 Joe Lozito Big Picture Big Sound Rotten 2/4 2007-12-27T03:15:26Z 2007-12-27 03:15:26
181121 Peter Travers Rolling Stone Rotten 2/4 2007-08-14T03:16:10Z 2007-08-14 03:16:10 It's not exactly stupid. Cynical might be a better word.
181122 Felix Gonzalez Jr. DVD Review Rotten 2007-07-10T17:54:31Z 2007-07-10 17:54:31 To call it performance art, one would first have to submit to the idea that it is art, which it clearly isn't. (Unrated)
181123 Unknown Critic Bullz-Eye.com Fresh 3.5/5 2006-09-23T03:38:46Z 2006-09-23 03:38:46
181124 Derek Adams Time Out Rotten 2006-06-24T03:39:51Z 2006-06-24 03:39:51 So what's all the fuss about? If people want to staple paper to their inner thighs, let them. The question is whether you're prepared to pay to watch them do it.
181125 Louis-Jérôme Cloutier Panorama Fresh B- 2004-12-16T15:54:06Z 2004-12-16 15:54:06 Franchement, Jackass: The Movie se doit d'tre vu mme si l'ide de dpart ne vous enchante gure.
181126 Brian Mckay eFilmCritic.com Fresh 3/5 2003-08-10T13:13:48Z 2003-08-10 13:13:48 Needs more crashes, fewer bodily fluids, and a shorter running time. while that first half is great, the thoroughly milked premise ultimately takes its toll, and the gross-out gags seem done more out of desperation
181127 Chris Hewitt (UK) Empire Magazine Fresh 4/5 2003-08-01T08:15:15Z 2003-08-01 08:15:15 Outrageously obscene and unflinchingly funny.
181128 Pablo Villaça Cinema em Cena Rotten 1/5 2003-05-13T11:51:22Z 2003-05-13 11:51:22 Este apenas mais um (longo) episdio do programa da MTV. A nica diferena que, desta vez, a Paramount teve o mau gosto de exibi-lo nos cinemas.
181129 Mark Robison Reno Gazette-Journal Fresh B+ 2003-04-02T19:27:03Z 2003-04-02 19:27:03 I laughed. I watched it a second time - and I laughed even harder.
181130 Andrew Pulver Guardian Fresh 4/5 2003-03-25T17:17:46Z 2003-03-25 17:17:46 There's no denying that it's pretty vicious humour, and pretty puerile too, but like previously successful purveyors of such past-the-U-bend comedy, its fresh-faced enthusiasm makes it invulnerable to... tired accusations.
181131 Sheila Norman-Culp Atlanta Journal-Constitution Fresh 2003-03-22T13:02:19Z 2003-03-22 13:02:19 While there is no scientific proof, chances are good your teenagers will leak brain cells by the thousands while watching Jackass. And you might even want to see it with them.
181132 Ian Mantgani UK Critic Fresh 3.5/4 2003-03-16T08:40:51Z 2003-03-16 08:40:51 I like it. There is a freedom to watching stunts that are this crude, this fast-paced and this insane.
181133 Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle Fresh 3/5 2003-03-10T08:55:20Z 2003-03-10 08:55:20 All told, either you get it or you don't.
181134 Shannon J. Harvey Sunday Times (Australia) Rotten 2.5/5 2003-03-09T20:11:58Z 2003-03-09 20:11:58 It has zero taste, zero intelligence, zero sophistication and zero redeeming social value. So it's a zero-star movie but as far as gutter-entertainment and gross-out humour goes, it's five-star laughs.
181135 Unknown Critic FilmFour.com Fresh 2003-03-04T08:44:48Z 2003-03-04 08:44:48 A work of insane genius.
181136 Edward Lawrenson Sight & Sound Fresh 2003-03-04T08:44:47Z 2003-03-04 08:44:47 It goes without saying that much of this is pathologically puerile, relentlessly unedifying and in dubious taste, but there are more than enough compensating laugh-out-loud moments (for this viewer, at least).
181137 Matthew Turner ViewLondon Fresh 3/5 2003-03-01T08:42:45Z 2003-03-01 08:42:45 This is compellingly stupid and frequently hilarious, though you may want to bring a sick-bag, just in case.
181138 Guylaine Cadorette Hollywood.com Rotten 2.5/4 2003-02-17T08:37:44Z 2003-02-17 08:37:44
181139 Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com Rotten 1/5 2003-02-03T05:15:51Z 2003-02-03 05:15:51 I'm all for the mentally challenged getting their fair shot in the movie business, but surely it doesn't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow geeks.
181140 Martyn Glanville BBC.com Fresh 4/5 2003-01-21T08:41:45Z 2003-01-21 08:41:45 As brainless as the movie incarnations of both South Park and Beavis and Butt-head, Jackass is just as funny as both -- and better than many of the so-called comedies Hollywood produces.
181141 Andrew Manning Radio Free Entertainment Rotten 5/10 2003-01-13T03:46:24Z 2003-01-13 03:46:24 A mix of hilarious stunts and idiotic pranks that still doesn't compare to what some of the cast members have done in other videos.
181142 Pete Vonder Haar Film Threat Fresh 4/5 2002-12-08T08:44:57Z 2002-12-08 08:44:57 A collection of some of the best physical comedy since Moe first smacked Curly on the head.
181143 Garth Franklin Dark Horizons Rotten 2/5 2002-11-26T08:35:56Z 2002-11-26 08:35:56 Dumb but occasionally shocking or fun.
181144 Ryan Cracknell Movie Views Fresh 2002-11-21T10:26:08Z 2002-11-21 10:26:08 More a surreal experience in the gross and the disturbing than a movie.
181145 Jason Anderson eye WEEKLY Fresh 4/5 2002-11-19T08:32:04Z 2002-11-19 08:32:04 I laugh, I cried, I nearly hurled.
181146 Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall Rotten 2.5/5 2002-11-18T08:36:53Z 2002-11-18 08:36:53 It's basically just a bunch of guys thinking up the stupidest things they can possibly do. And then doing them.
181147 Greg Muskewitz eFilmCritic.com Rotten 1/5 2002-11-12T14:43:58Z 2002-11-12 14:43:58 An unencouraging threefold expansion on the former MTV series, accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected gags, pranks, pratfalls, dares, injuries, etc.
181148 Eric D. Snider EricDSnider.com Fresh B- 2002-11-09T08:32:18Z 2002-11-09 08:32:18 I have rarely laughed as hard as I did at this movie; however, I have also rarely been as ashamed of my laughter as I was here.
181149 Brian Webster Apollo Guide Rotten 34/100 2002-11-08T22:41:40Z 2002-11-08 22:41:40 This isn't a movie; it's a symptom.
181150 Richard Roeper Ebert & Roeper Fresh 2002-11-05T11:21:51Z 2002-11-05 11:21:51 Jackass: The Movie is a disgusting, repulsive, grotesque spectacle, but it's also hilarious and provocative. God help me, thumbs up.
181151 Tim Cogshell Boxoffice Magazine Rotten 1/5 2002-11-03T08:32:26Z 2002-11-03 08:32:26 If ever there was a movie that used the R rating for all it's worth to do things that could not be done on television, it's this one.
181152 Steve Rhodes Internet Reviews Rotten 2002-11-02T19:53:54Z 2002-11-02 19:53:54 .5/4 The name says it all. Jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of Candid Camera staged for the Marquis de Sade set.
181153 Bruce Bennett Spectrum (St. George, Utah) Rotten C 2002-11-02T17:15:21Z 2002-11-02 17:15:21 For every minute of whimsical diversion such as the crew dancing through the streets of Japan dressed as panda bears, there is another equal dose of something so foul as to offset the laughter with a painful groan
181155 Mark Caro Chicago Tribune Rotten 1/4 2002-11-02T08:31:32Z 2002-11-02 08:31:32 Maybe the best way to look at Jackass: The Movie is as a piece of conceptual art. How far and low will these guys go? What's the pinnacle of pointlessness?
181154 Brian Orndorf Modamag.com Fresh 0/10 2002-11-02T08:31:32Z 2002-11-02 08:31:32 Undeniably, this is terribly crude material, and could very well signal the end of humanity as we know it. But it's funny.
181156 Christopher Smith Bangor Daily News (Maine) Fresh B 2002-11-01T06:03:45Z 2002-11-01 06:03:45 The film jolts the laughs from the audience--as if by cattle prod.
181157 Brian J. Arthurs Beach Reporter (Southern California) Fresh 2002-10-31T15:36:22Z 2002-10-31 15:36:22 It's completely inappropriate for children younger than 17, but it still takes someone who relates to his inner 14-year-old to truly enjoy it.
181158 Paul Malcolm L.A. Weekly Fresh 2002-10-31T14:14:07Z 2002-10-31 14:14:07 Best wear a helmet and have some fun.
181159 Stephen Himes Film Snobs Rotten 2/5 2002-10-31T07:48:52Z 2002-10-31 07:48:52 The opening shopping cart scene announces that The Roman Circus Has Arrived. "Jackass" is the sort of spectacle of exquisite sadism that would do Nero proud.
181161 Robert Denerstein Denver Rocky Mountain News Rotten D 2002-10-30T08:34:32Z 2002-10-30 08:34:32 Compared with Jackass, professional wrestling is scripted by Moliere.
181160 Michael Rechtshaffen The Hollywood Reporter Fresh 2002-10-30T08:34:32Z 2002-10-30 08:34:32 Critics need a good laugh, too, and this too-extreme-for-TV rendition of the notorious MTV show delivers the outrageous, sickening, sidesplitting goods in steaming, visceral heaps.
181162 Mike McGranaghan Aisle Seat Fresh 3/4 2002-10-29T15:50:55Z 2002-10-29 15:50:55 I like "Jackass" and I make no apologies for it.
181163 Joe Leydon Variety Fresh 2002-10-29T13:18:19Z 2002-10-29 13:18:19 It's plotless, shapeless -- and yet, it must be admitted, not entirely humorless. Indeed, the more outrageous bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost Dadaist proportions.
181164 Ed Halter Village Voice Fresh 2002-10-29T12:29:25Z 2002-10-29 12:29:25 It's funny, as the old saying goes, because it's true.
181165 Jim Judy Screen It! Rotten 2/10 2002-10-29T12:22:17Z 2002-10-29 12:22:17 This is akin to The Three Stooges meet The Farrelly Brothers but taken down about a dozen notches or so in terms of intelligence, creativity or imagination.
181166 Scott Von Doviak Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Fresh 2002-10-29T11:39:21Z 2002-10-29 11:39:21 Candid Camera on methamphetamines.
181167 Ethan Alter Film Journal International Rotten 2002-10-29T08:33:00Z 2002-10-29 08:33:00 Honestly, where's the comedy in watching a semi-conscious and bleeding Knoxville wondering out loud if he has a concussion?
181168 Danny Minton KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX) Fresh B+ 2002-10-28T21:17:45Z 2002-10-28 21:17:45 I laughed uncontrollably for almost the entire length of the film.
181169 Jonathan R. Perry Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) Rotten 0.5/4 2002-10-28T16:32:30Z 2002-10-28 16:32:30 Our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bender - and I know this because I've seen 'jackass: the movie.'
181170 Steve Simels TV Guide Rotten 1.5/5 2002-10-28T13:51:56Z 2002-10-28 13:51:56 Really dumb but occasionally really funny.
181171 Chris Hewitt St. Paul Pioneer Press Fresh 2002-10-28T13:48:04Z 2002-10-28 13:48:04 This anarchic, inventive, actuarial nightmare is a swell reminder that there are few things more unambiguously pleasurable than sitting in a theater full of laughing people.
181172 Tom Keogh Seattle Times Rotten 2002-10-28T13:39:17Z 2002-10-28 13:39:17 .5/4 Can literally make one sick, so be prepared.
181173 C.W. Nevius San Francisco Chronicle Rotten 0/4 2002-10-28T13:32:38Z 2002-10-28 13:32:38 Witless, pointless, tasteless and idiotic.
181174 Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald Rotten 2.5/4 2002-10-28T13:27:38Z 2002-10-28 13:27:38 As much as I laughed throughout the movie, I cannot mount a cogent defense of the film as entertainment, or even performance art, although the movie does leave you marveling at these guys' superhuman capacity to withstand pain.
181175 Tom Maurstad Dallas Morning News Rotten D 2002-10-28T13:12:01Z 2002-10-28 13:12:01 Made by jackasses for jackasses.
181176 Renee Graham Boston Globe Rotten 1/4 2002-10-28T13:09:46Z 2002-10-28 13:09:46 An inflated and excruciating 85 minutes with barely enough laughs to sustain 10.
181177 Louis B. Hobson Jam! Movies Fresh 3/5 2002-10-28T12:27:30Z 2002-10-28 12:27:30 I felt like a donkey laughing so hard at such stupidity and I feel like even more of a donkey admitting it in print.
181178 James Brundage Filmcritic.com Fresh 3.5/5 2002-10-28T12:20:55Z 2002-10-28 12:20:55 Grotesque, stupid, pointless, and funny as hell.
181179 Mark Dujsik Mark Reviews Movies Rotten 0/4 2002-10-28T12:16:06Z 2002-10-28 12:16:06 There's something wrong with the cast of Jackass, and the simple fact of the matter is that watching people satisfy their masochistic tendencies isn't fun or funny.
181180 Mark Palermo The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Rotten 2002-10-28T10:53:51Z 2002-10-28 10:53:51 Where Tom Green stages his gags as assaults on America's knee-jerk moral sanctimony, Jackass lacks aspirations of social upheaval.
181181 Rob Blackwelder SPLICEDWire Rotten 1/4 2002-10-28T06:32:21Z 2002-10-28 06:32:21 Strictly for shallow-end-of-the-gene-pool types who find professional wrestling and monster truck shows too sophisticated for their simple-minded tastes.
181183 Jennie Punter Globe and Mail Rotten 1/4 2002-10-27T08:33:14Z 2002-10-27 08:33:14 Belongs in the too-hot-for-TV direct-to-video/DVD category, and this is why I have given it a one-star rating.
181182 Frank Ochieng Movie Eye Rotten 1/4 2002-10-27T08:33:14Z 2002-10-27 08:33:14 To say that this vapid vehicle is downright doltish and uneventful is just as obvious as telling a country skunk that he has severe body odor.
181184 Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) Fresh 3.5/4 2002-10-27T03:49:23Z 2002-10-27 03:49:23 My face still hurts from laughing.
181185 Dustin Putman TheFilmFile.com Rotten 1.5/4 2002-10-26T10:16:34Z 2002-10-26 10:16:34 Too often, the viewer isn't reacting to humor so much as they are wincing back in repugnance.
181190 Manohla Dargis Los Angeles Times Rotten 2002-10-26T08:30:53Z 2002-10-26 08:30:53 Every bit as disreputable and often as embarrassingly funny as the MTV program, only longer.
181189 Jim Slotek Jam! Movies Rotten 0/5 2002-10-26T08:30:53Z 2002-10-26 08:30:53 Yes, I have given this movie a rating of zero. But fans of the show should not consider this a diss. Consider it 'perfection.'
181188 Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Fresh B 2002-10-26T08:30:53Z 2002-10-26 08:30:53 I'm not sure if I enjoyed myself, exactly, but I could hardly wait to see what I'd be appalled by next.
181187 A.O. Scott New York Times Rotten 2/5 2002-10-26T08:30:53Z 2002-10-26 08:30:53 Like a documentary version of Fight Club, shorn of social insight, intellectual pretension and cinematic interest.
181186 John Monaghan Detroit Free Press Rotten 1/4 2002-10-26T08:30:53Z 2002-10-26 08:30:53 I'm not sure which will take longer to heal: the welt on Johnny Knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche.
181191 JoBlo JoBlo's Movie Network Fresh 7/10 2002-10-25T20:29:47Z 2002-10-25 20:29:47 The bottom line with this movie is really whether or not you think it's all 'dumb and nothing else' or 'dumb and pretty funny'.
181192 Jeff Berson Citysearch Fresh 7/10 2002-10-25T16:17:31Z 2002-10-25 16:17:31 Despite the stitches, bruises and gashes, the group actually appears to be having fun, and it rubs off on the audience. At least, those of us who can stomach stupidity by the boatload.
181193 Mary Kalin-Casey Reel.com Fresh 3/4 2002-10-25T15:35:19Z 2002-10-25 15:35:19 Incredibly funny.
181194 Lou Lumenick New York Post Rotten 0/4 2002-10-25T15:23:39Z 2002-10-25 15:23:39 Plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst movie of the year.
181195 Unknown Critic E! Online Fresh A 2002-10-25T14:57:32Z 2002-10-25 14:57:32 This is the funniest film of 2002, whether uptight cinema snobs admit it or not.
181196 Jeff Vice Deseret News (Salt Lake City) Rotten 1.5/4 2002-10-25T14:56:36Z 2002-10-25 14:56:36 Possibly the most irresponsible picture ever released by a major film studio.
181197 John Oliver Katrillion.com Fresh 2002-10-25T14:14:40Z 2002-10-25 14:14:40 The most amazing super-sized dosage of goofball stunts any "Jackass" fan could want.
181198 Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone TheMovieChicks.com Fresh 4/5 2002-10-25T10:43:44Z 2002-10-25 10:43:44 There's no plot to get in the way of the stunts in this 'movie', but it's absolutely hilarious for fans of the twisted show.
181199 Phil Villarreal Arizona Daily Star Fresh 4/4 2002-10-25T10:24:35Z 2002-10-25 10:24:35 My oh my, is this an invigorating, electric movie.
181200 David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Fresh 2.5/4 2002-10-25T08:55:00Z 2002-10-25 08:55:00 ...Jackass is certainly one of the funniest moviesof the year...
181201 Ross Anthony Hollywood Report Card Fresh 3/4 2002-10-25T08:31:16Z 2002-10-25 08:31:16 Creatively crude, head-banging, silly, STUPID FUN!
181202 Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Rotten F 2002-10-25T08:16:07Z 2002-10-25 08:16:07 Like being trapped at a perpetual frat party...How can something so gross be so boring?
181203 John Venable Supercala.com Fresh 9.5/10 2002-10-25T05:49:59Z 2002-10-25 05:49:59 Insanely hilarious! I haven't laughed that hard in years!
181204 Jon Popick Planet S Magazine Fresh 8/10 2002-10-25T03:26:12Z 2002-10-25 03:26:12 Call me crazy, but which would you rather see: Tom Cruise pretending to be scared, or Steve-O actually terrified (of a large alligator)? Vin Diesel grunting the F-word, or Bam Margera conning his mother into saying it (with a large alligator)?
181205 Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine Rotten 2/4 2002-10-24T19:21:56Z 2002-10-24 19:21:56 For fans of MTV's now defunct "Jackass" series, the best thing that can be said about Jackass: The Movie is that it offers more of the same but with an NC-17 twist.

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