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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80L.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmL.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmThe 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.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanProvokes 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.
- 67Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesAustin ChronicleKimberley JonesAll 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.
- 50Los Angeles TimesManohla DargisLos Angeles TimesManohla DargisAt 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.
- 50Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesUnfortunately 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.
- 40The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensLike 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.
- 30VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonIt'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.
- 25The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jennie PunterThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jennie PunterEssentially 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."
- 20The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonAudience members are likely to feel like they're right there in the picture, suffering for no reason and trying to pretend it's funny.
- 0New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickTo 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.