What began as a juvenile MTV series in 2000 has gone on to inspire outbursts of uncontrollable laughter and groans via the Jackass franchise's progressively more hilarious movies.
Although director Jeff Tremaine doesn't take full advantage of the third film's 3D effects, he does allow some window-breaking spectacle to deliver things like a projectile-dildo into the audience.
More prominent than in the first two Jackass films, male genitals take the brunt of many a masochistic skit. Still, a remote-controlled helicopter tied to a guy's pecker is not quite as guffaw-inducing as watching a guy get his tooth pulled out by a Lamborghini.
As with the first two films, a carnival atmosphere of perverse male-centric performance art comedy pervades. There's a refreshing joy that comes from watching two idiots play tee ball with a nest of bees. It's just funny watching people get willingly stung by bees.
The Jackass movies represent a perfect acid test for compatibility between any two people. Yes, it's over-the-top-gross-out humor but Jackass movies serve humanity with an opportunity to laugh with a primitive depth of humor. If you can't laugh at this, you can't laugh at nothin'.
Rated R. 94 mins.
