Jackass 3D

Four years after their last foray onto the big screen, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and co. have teamed up once again to indulge in the high art of tastelessness under the guidance of their regular director Jeff Tremaine. And this time they're doing it in 3D.

Homer Simpson would have a field day with this one, as his favorite at the "Film Festival in Springfield" was the very movie where a man got shot in the groin with a football. A classic, according to Homer Simpson. The men on the "Jackass" team get all sorts of things thrown, shot and kicked into their groins here. But that's not all: Johnny Knoxville gets run over by a professional football player, male genitals are plastered and then worked on by a woodpecker, a heavyweight man gets an apple stuck in his butt, which is then eaten by a pig, a Johnny Knoxville dressed as a pensioner smooches his niece in front of shocked passers-by, or a man blessed with inexhaustible intestinal fortitude is allowed to use it to play a little song on a party horn or to shoot darts.

Admittedly, it's hard to stifle a laugh at some of the stunts and hidden-camera gags, even if the most primitive regions of the humor center are always stimulated here. But time and again the "Jackass" guys overstep the boundaries of good taste, which, for example, repeatedly results in the cameraman spontaneously throwing up. And the viewer is right there - in 3D, of course! Vomit, puke and more fly around the viewer's ears here in the truest sense of the word, which is absolutely disgusting, but actually not really funny. Here you can actually only be thankful that this film "nur" in 3D and not in 4D to see, feel and smell.

Good, in a full cinema with the right audience (read: "Jackass" fans) the whole thing is certainly a real party movie, which - also due to the high Fremdschäm factor - brings the mood to boil. But that doesn't make "Jackass 3D" a good movie. It's true that fans are well catered for here. But it's still a slap in the face to any filmmaker that this machination grossed over $50 million in its first weekend in the U.S., while other, "real" films can't even come close to raking in that much at the box office during their entire run. If you enjoyed the series and the first two films, you should take as many good-humored friends as possible to make "Jackass 3D"'s theatrical run a real party. All others are warned: stay away from this film, because here you will see things that you will guaranteed Never forget - and that is truly not meant positively!

An article by Frankfurt-Tipp