Jackass: The Movie
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 25, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
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Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
3
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
L.A. WeeklyPaul Malcolm
The Jackass boys achieve true genius, however, when they take their penance public. Before stunned, inert onlookers, these skate-punk Situationists transform official zones of work and leisure -- office parks, golf courses, bowling alleys -- into arenas of dangerous stupidity to remind us that, in the end, we’re all just meat. Read full review
80
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
One of the funniest films I’ve seen all year. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Provokes a suspense halfway between comedy and horror. I'm not sure if I enjoyed myself, exactly, but I could hardly wait to see what I'd be appalled by next. Read full review
70
Village VoiceEd Halter
Shrewdly, the Jackass gang didn't mess with their established formula in the transition to the big screen. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
All told, either you get it or you don't. Film critics and senators with election prospects don't. Kids in the mood to laugh at stupid shit for 87 minutes do. I'll toss my hat in the latter ring with glee. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
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. Compared to these jackasses, Vin Diesel is a big, overpaid wuss. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesManohla Dargis
At their best, they're closer to the Three Stooges; at their most banal, they're as original as the Red Hot Chili Peppers performing nude with socks on their penises -- It's a hoot. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Unfortunately I can't give this a thumbs-up or thumbs-down; I haven't yet developed an aesthetic that will accommodate a guy firing a bottle rocket from his ass. Read full review
40
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Like a documentary version of "Fight Club," shorn of social insight, intellectual pretension and cinematic interest. It also offers a supremely literal-minded version of slapstick. Read full review
30
VarietyJoe Leydon
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. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jennie Punter
Essentially a slapstick movie with no plot or -- as my boyfriend called it after recovering from 1½ hours of side-splitting laughter -- "the ultimate big-screen TV experience." Read full review
20
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
Audience members are likely to feel like they're right there in the picture, suffering for no reason and trying to pretend it's funny. Read full review
0
New York PostLou Lumenick
To call Jackass: The Movie the worst movie of the year is practically a compliment. This plotless, crudely videotaped collection of moronic stunts is a movie in the same sense that those hideous, velvet depictions of Elvis are paintings. Read full review
0
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
This is the biggest lowdown, rotten, disgusting, depraved sideshow in the megaplex. Check your brains, your taste and your self-respect right over there with the bearded ticket taker. Read full review
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