JACKASS THE MOVIE
Despicable delinquency that families should leave behind.
Should You Watch It?
The answer is plain: no. Based on the infamous television series, this movie turns dangerous, gross, and sadomasochistic stunts into comedy and entertainment. The review calls it physically sickening as well as morally and spiritually despicable.
The danger is not merely on screen. Teenagers have reportedly duplicated some of the stunts, including reckless golf-cart driving. Johnny Knoxville is clearly injured in one shot and suffers a concussion.
The movie also includes private-part stunts, partly obscured full male nudity, vomit, and human feces. For your family, skip it entirely and choose something that does not celebrate these behaviors.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESA group of young men perform outrageous, dangerous, gross, and sadomasochistic stunts for comedy, fame, and fortune. The film expands the concept of the television series into a feature-length collection of reckless physical antics and crude spectacle.
Is It Any Good?
One star means the film is judged to have almost no entertainment value worth recommending. The review compares it to The Three Stooges “taken to the nth degree,” but calls it one of the worst documentaries ever made.
Its central problem is not only that the stunts are crude. The review finds them dangerous, physically sickening, and morally and spiritually despicable.
The Worldview
The movie presents reckless behavior, humiliation, pain, and bodily degradation as entertainment. Its stated motives are comedy, fame, and fortune, and the review sees this as an elevation of money and public attention rather than wisdom, self-control, or care for others.
That stands sharply against biblical principles. The movie’s example is especially troubling because viewers may imitate what they see, and the review specifically reports teenagers duplicating dangerous stunts. Instead of teaching children to pursue wisdom and safety, this spectacle models behavior that can cause real injury.
The review connects this pursuit of money to Scripture’s warning: “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils” (1 Timothy 6:10). This film’s central values point away from that warning rather than toward it.
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Content Summary
Push-the-envelope pagan worldview where men do all sorts of outrageous, dangerous, gross, and sadomasochistic stunts for comedy, fame and fortune; 78 obscenities, 10 strong profanities, eight light profanities, obscene gestures, vomiting, and images of human feces and people on toilets; outrageous, violent, often crude stunts include being hit by blocks of concrete, applying electric shocks to several parts of the body, teasing alligators who try to bite man’s bare bottom, skateboarding off a steel rail, driving golf carts very fast over large hills and holes, and knocking and pushing people down; sadomasochistic acts involving male private parts and some references to sex; many shots of male private parts (both front and rear) plus many scenes of rear male nudity and men wearing only jock straps or diapers; and, lying, rudeness, old people mocked, exhibitionism, and taunting wild animals.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Why might people imitate dangerous behavior they see presented as comedy? How can we pursue wisdom instead?
Proverbs 22:3 · 1 Corinthians 6:19–20The movie connects stunts with fame and fortune. What does Scripture teach about the danger of loving money and public attention?
1 Timothy 6:9–10 · Philippians 2:3–4What responsibilities do entertainers have when viewers, especially teenagers, may copy their behavior?
Romans 14:13 · 1 Corinthians 8:9How should Christians respond when something is popular but celebrates foolishness, cruelty, or impurity?
Philippians 4:8 · Ephesians 5:11The Final Word
JACKASS THE MOVIE turns danger, vulgarity, and humiliation into spectacle, with consequences viewers may imitate. Its one-star quality and −4 family-content rating leave no room for a recommendation. SKIP IT. For better alternatives, see.
