It’s a great bit-the first time you see it. If you’ve seen the Jackass 3 trailer, you’ve seen the “High Five” gag, where unsuspecting members of the Jackass gang walk through a door and are knocked flat by a giant, spring-loaded rubber hand. The first ten minutes of the movie sucked.By the time someone got up to complain, the Beavis and Butt-head intro explaining how to use the 3D glasses had passed, and the mad opening credits sequence was half over. Yes, the Paramount and Dickhouse logos were accompanied not with music, but with a dreadful “whump-whump” warble that sounded first like a helicopter landing on top of the theatre, and then like a muffled earthquake. The sound was out for the first three minutes.Fortunately, strangely, the theatre was packed with rowdy, eager fans. This is definitely the way to experience Jackass, but 10am on a Saturday is not a friendly invitation. I watched the first two movies with groups of friends. Yesterday, I was given three omens of doom-three signs that I should not watch Jackass 3. Aren’t these guys, like, forty? And they’re still running around filming juvenile stunts for MTV? To be honest, I didn’t know if a third installment would be defensible. These are not easy to sell to “serious” film lovers, or to anyone who believes themselves above such entertainment (about ninety-nine percent of the population). On the handful of occasions that I had to defend my love for the Jackass movies, I got about two sentences in before my audience’s eyes glazed over.
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