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Jackass began airing in 2000 – and since then the world
of television has never been the same. Whether that’s a
good or bad thing depends on the viewer. ***
Co-created by Johnny Knoxville (who has since pursued
an acting career), Jackass is reality television at its
finest – not to mention its dumbest. Essentially (for the
unfamiliar), the show involves the cast performing a mixture
of dangerous and disgusting stunts and tasks – all for the
sake of entertaining television audiences. ***
Jackass is the kind of show you’ll either love or hate.
These men are either very brave or very stupid, but either
way, they won’t fail to make you laugh or make your jaw
fall in amazement – whether their stunts succeed or go awry.
That’s just the kind of show this is, and it isn’t hard
to see why it quickly became a massive hit on MTV (spawning
two feature films!), not to mention the network’s most controversial
show since Beavis and Butt-Head – despite a disclaimer in
the opening credits. ***
This DVD is comp rised of footage from the series that,
for some reason or another, didn’t make it onto the earlier
DVD sets, much to the dismay of fans. MTV attempts to right
past wrongs by putting this set out and finally making this
footage available on home video, but it really makes you
wonder why they didn’t just include this stuff in the season
sets to begin with. ---
Image and Sound:
Image quality is all over the place considering the
“on location” filming style Jackass employs. Many of these
scenes have very poor picture quality compared to what can
actually be seen on the other legit DVD releases, while
some look good enough that they could easily have aired
on TV. It’s a very mixed bag, though the entire disc is
certainly more than watchable. The same can be said of the
audio due to the nature of the filming style.
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