Jackass Number Two (2006)

Director:

Jeff Tremaine

Writers:

Jeff Tremaine (television series "Jackass") &
Spike Jonze (television series "Jackass") ...

Release Date:

22 September 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | Comedy

Tagline:

When is the last time a movie made you beg for mercy?

Plot:

Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to raise the stakes higher than ever before. |

Plot Keywords:

Beer | Feces | Penny Farthing Bicycle | Horse Penis | Wheelchair

US TV Schedule:

Fri. Jan. 1	9:00 PM	COMEDY
Sat. Jan. 2	1:30 AM	COMEDY

Cast

Johnny Knoxville	...	Himself
Bam Margera	...	Himself
Steve-O	...	Himself
Chris Pontius	...	Himself
Ryan Dunn	...	Himself
Jason Acuña	...	Himself (as Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña)
Preston Lacy	...	Himself
Dave England	...	Himself
Ehren McGhehey	...	Himself
Jess Margera	...	Himself
Brandon Dicamillo	...	Himself
Mat Hoffman	...	Himself
Tony Hawk	...	Himself
Mark Zupan	...	Himself
Jeff Tremaine	...	Himself

Also Known As:

Jackass 2: The Son of Jackass (USA) (working title)
Jackass: The Movie 2 (USA) (working title)
Jackass: The Sequel (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for extremely crude and dangerous stunts throughout, sexual content, nudity and language.

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | SDDS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Netherlands:12 | Finland:K-15 | Ireland:16 | USA:R (certificate #42954) | UK:18 | Canada:18A (Ontario) | Canada:R (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia) | Norway:15 | Singapore:R21 | Australia:MA | Germany:18 | Sweden:11 | South Africa:18 (LN) | Singapore:M18 (edited version) | New Zealand:R16 | Japan:R-18

Filming Locations:

Bull Shoals, Arkansas, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

All scenes featuring Vincent Margera were cut from the film due Vito's arrest for sexual assault one month before the film's release.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the beginning, when they are all running away from the stampede of bulls, there's a shot of them running in the distance. On the left side, there is a black car parked on the side of the road that they pass. Then later, there's a shot of them running past a black car in the background also parked on the left side of the road. It's the same car.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Johnny Knoxville: Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville, welcome to Jackass!"

Movie Connections:

References Scary Movie (2000)

Soundtrack:

If You're Gonna Be Dumb

Johnny Knoxville has lost his mind

Johnny Knoxville has gone insane.

In the first Jackass he delighted in practical jokes more so than the physical stuff – his opening car rental gag and the later bit involving an air horn on a golf course were more akin to some type of extreme Candid Camera – but in Jackass: Number Two he's really off his rocker.

Beginning with a sequence where he is chased through a living room by a bull, or later when he rides a rocket (a stunt which almost cost him his life due to an unexpected explosion from the side of the rocket), and especially when he stands willfully in front of a defense mechanism and takes a spray of pellets to the stomach, Knoxville is a madman. In the first film Bam Margera and Steve-O – notorious party animals – were the daring ones, but you know it's pretty bad when you see Knoxville enticing them to do a stunt.

This is essentially a series of stunts pulled off by guys consumed by testosterone, constantly trying to one-up each other. It will eventually end in death for one of the cast members – in Jackass 2 Steve-O nearly loses a leg to a shark, Knoxville (as aforementioned) is nearly impaled with an explosion from a rocket, and so on and so forth. Jackass 3 has already been confirmed owing to the success of 2, and frankly I can't imagine any stunt out-performing the bull run in the opening scene of this film – that's incredible footage. It's almost unbelievable, and I wondered whether it had been faked, but apparently it was 100% genuine. (Which is actually kind of frightening.) And in terms of extremes Jackass 2 far outdoes its predecessor – it also feels more cinematic than the first film, with less of the cheesy titles preceding stunts that were made famous on the original MTV television show.

Unfortunately, the boys were given too much freedom here, and a good number of the gags are simply lame exercises in crudity – I can enjoy the occasional poop gag, but watching a man relieve himself on a miniature toilet, or see Steve-O take beer up the butt (yes, honestly), gets grating after a while. Even the frat boys in the screening I attended – who were enthusiastic when Wee Man took a playing card up the rear and got zapped by a rigged chair – were disgusted by some of the scenes in this film. It's not a matter of getting away with as much as possible – it's a matter of saying, "Is this even entertaining or funny?" Many times, sadly, it really isn't.

But for every lame stunt involving fecal matter and farting on people's faces, there are some brilliant hidden-camera bits. Wacky director Spike Jonze ("Adaptation") dresses up as an old woman and hits the streets naked, with sagging breasts and no shame. And my personal favorite skit involved Knoxville as an irresponsible old man, out for lunch with his grandson, letting him drink alcohol and smoke and swear and insult people. That's classic comedy taken to new extremes with the liberties of an R-rating. It's a shame they had to ruin all the great stuff – including a final segment involving an elaborate terrorist prank – with poop jokes along the way.

Still, there's enough sheer spirit and craziness in this film to merit a viewing, and it's really taken the concept of extremity in cinema to new heights.