Jackass 2.5 Reviews

• Rip off that should have been included with Jackass 2!

  
  By A1OZYQ4V83X8K4 on 2007-12-28
  As a fan I hate to give a Jackass Dvd such a low rating but this is nothing but a way to make more money off fans that should have been given this material when they bought Jackass 2, and it's quite overpriced on top of that at $20. This DVD is nothing but scenes that were too bad to be included in Jackass 2 and various people explaining why they were too bad or did not work as planned as an intro to each clip. The only newly shot material on this DVD is the intro and outro of the movie which is nothing to look at it's just them all standing on stage and saying welcome to Jackass 2.5 basically. This whole DVD could have been included with Jackass 2 as a couple extra minutes of deleted scenes, instead they chose to try and make another $20 off of us all by making us buy the movie twice. You have already seen most of these scenes in the ending credits of Jackass 2 such as them on the driving range, wee man in the cooler with the watergun, and riding minibikes in the grocery store. In all honesty there is nothing here that I will watch more than once since these scenes are all awful, and even for Jackass fans I cannot recommend this DVD unless you have money to burn.
  
  

• The Jackass Number Two Sequel is HILARIOUS!

  
  By A24OFOIWNQI4DG on 2007-12-19
  Almost as funny as Jackass Number two, and just as creative! I was balled up laughing so many times! Preston as King Kong was a riot and watching Danger Ehren brave a bed of nails and cobras was priceless hilarity! There is a lot of poop in this film (and more Aghori freaks), so be prepared if you are squeamish.
  
  

• Special Features

  
  By A17JWKKPQA8LYA on 2007-12-18
  Special Features
  - Making of Jackass 2.5 featurette
  - Making of Jackass video game
  - 16 bonus segments
  - Hot link to Jackass World
  - Photo gallery
  - Easter eggs.
  
  

• You expect me to buy the movie twice?

  
  By A2NN5CX236T10Z on 2007-12-19
  How lame is this. Jackass 2 is a great movie, 5 stars and hilarious. Yet, I will not be buying Jackass 2.5, because I already own the first release of the movie. The .5 in the title is what people should have got in the bonus features when they bought it the first time. The intentional delayed release of the "special edition" is an awful marketing tool and should have been dismissed a long time ago.
  
  

• Save your money

  
  By A2QAIDMGT2XIFF on 2007-12-21
  Its obvious why these skits didnt make the movie. They are all pretty bad. Also a good 35% of 2.5 is them talking about the skits and talking about the movie. This could have easily been made into 20 more minutes of bonus footage on Jackass 2. At only an hour long its hard to even consider this a DVD. Save your money and just read what the skits were.
  
  
• Jackass 2.5
  By A50TH2E7L31H7 on 2007-12-27
  Jackass 2.5 is hilarious 60 minute collection of hilarious and stupid clips of various stunts from the Jackass crew. Up to their usual tricks they do things like: Drinking loogies, piss squirt gun, anal Bead A** Kite, rattlesnake condom popping, rusty nail bed in India with cobras, snapping turtle to the nose and more. A great warm up to Jackass 3 coming sometime in 2008. Worth a look for fans of Jackass!
  
  
• Money-Making Mayhem
  By A14D2324AWGPE9 on 2008-01-27
  I love everything Jackass. I faithfully watched the series and movies. I eagerly waited for the DVDs. I didn't hesitate to buy Jackass 2.5. STUPID! Why would I not buy it, right? A bunch of average-looking, yet incredibly loveable guys creating mayhem in every city they haven't been run out of: sounds like a good watch to me. There wouldn't be any reason to hesitate buying it when the show and two previous movies were such a hit, would there?
  
  Jackass 2.5 was nothing more than a shameless money-making attempt by a bunch of guys who are starting to feel the cash flow pinch. My friends and I are devoted to Jackass, but we'll pass on the spinoff, Wild Boyz,which is nothing more than a spandex-clad, vomit orgy. While Viva La Bam! was MUCH, MUCH, MUCH better than Wild Boyz, how may times can we laugh at Bam beating up Phil before our laughter becomes painfully hysterically? And Knoxville's attempts at acting have sadly left us with Men in Black II, The Ringer, and The Dukes of Hazzard. The boys of Jackass are best being, well jackasses! Unfortunatly, there's only so far this franchise can take you.
  
  
• Not a good laugh in it.
  By A38O0H6M3V04KM on 2008-03-17
  I've seen episodes of the TV show and both Jackass 1 and 2. The guys are at their best, in my opinion, when they are attempting lame-brained stunts. The show and the first two movies offered a high ratio of good solid laughs to every moment where you turned away from the screen in embarassment.
  2.5 is mostly about the guys getting rectally violated in some way.If foreign object insertions, prostate exams, and so on are things you find funny, you'll enjoy 2.5. There's also a fair amount of on-screen defecating, if that amuses you.
  The conceit of the movie is that most of what you'll see didn't work, so it wasn't included in 2. They were right to leave this material on the editing room floor. It's just not funny. It's disgusting, it's embarassing, but it isn't funny.
  Wait for 3, or go back and watch the show or 1 and 2 over again. You'll regret it if you waste your cash on this.
  
  
• Slightly amusing rehash
  By A7L6P7DJJ1JNA on 2008-04-18
  Jackass is one of the few "indulgences" I grant my old reactionary mind, and at times I laugh my heart out. This particular DVD feels very much like a moneymaking scheme. As others have pointed out, there isn't really anything "new" in it, apart from one hilarious scene which is worth the price of the DVD in itself. Preston Lacy plays the ape in "King Kong" (in full costume), Wee-man his damsel in distress, and all the others are trying to bring him down from the top of a portable toilet on a hill with their model airplanes. Not to mention that Lacy is immensely scared of heights! Classical insanity, if I ever saw it.
  
  The major part of rest is very vulgar and most of the "humour" centres on the lower region of the human body. Might be amusing to some people, I just found it disgusting. Mindless nihilism at its worst, I'd say. There are some interesting interviews on how they feel about the various types of sketches and so on, but apart from that this will be of interest only to the biggest fans. Dave England and Danger Ehren along with the "King Kong"-scene saves the entire DVD, those two guys always get me laughing no matter what.
  
  Apart from that there's not really much to say, it is the same "Jackass" we've seen before, but this time we've seen most of the exact same material before literally. 3 stars.
  
  
• Pass on this one
  By A1HXP4PZYZE52M on 2008-05-15
  Basically, this is anything that was not worth the time or effort to be edited and thrown into Jackass 2, either because it just couldnt be cut shorter, it didnt turn out the way they wanted, or it just wasnt funny. While some scenes could have been edited into shorter clips, they just weren't worth it and that is what it is all presented here. Through post-film and on the set interviews, 2/4 of the "movie" is just the whole crew describing the next scenes and while some might seem interesing, they just don't turn out funny at all. This is definately not worthy of a movie or your time unless your a die-hard collector of Jackass stuff.
  
  
• Hilarious
  By A2M95MPI2T3CAL on 2007-12-22
  I just watched this to see if it was Number 2 with a few added scenes. It is not, they filmed so much material doing the second movie they basically had enough for two movies. This release is over an hour of all new material, no material from Number 2. At least they didn't try and make money off of us by putting this in theaters. This is absolutely hilarious, if you love Jackass, you'll love this.
  
  
• Die-hard fans will be mildly entertained. Others, not so much.
  By A1WEDH15TLFYZH on 2008-01-05
  For die-hard fans of the Jackass and CKY crews, this provides some great commentary and clips that were left out of Jackass 2 -- however, there is a reason they were left out of the other movie ... they are pretty lame. Many of the clips are failed attempts or stunts gone wrong (not awesome 'wrong', rather didn't work at all).
  
  For those who aren't as familiar with the crew and their antics, the stunts and skits in this video aren't that spectacular. If you haven't seen Jackass 2, I would suggest buying that and just watching the special features and added scenes from that DVD ... because that's pretty much what this entire video is ... sub-par content that should've been buried in the Jackass 2 special features.
  
  
• Brainless Bilge
  By ALTNI5BAFUAQY on 2008-01-13
  This compilation of outtakes from Jackass 2 is strictly for the fanatical Jackass fan. I've always been an avid fan of the Jackass movies nad Wildboyz TV series but this is a waste of time. What you have is nearly two hours of outtakes that were considered too lame for Jackass 2--and they're still so lame and boring that you would think a grammar school kid had video taped the sequences. You're given scene after scene showing the Jackass cast and crew shrieking in uncontrollable laughter and hysteria as they watch themselves on screen. Then you're presented with endless talky interviews that one would expect to have found on the Jackass 2 DVD. What's strange is that the most popular cast member, Chris 'Party Boy' Pontius is giving absolutley nothing to do. You see him hiding behind his guitar, talking, talking. Much of the film emphasizes bare bottoms and which ones do they constantly use? Those of wee man and the 300 pound man. They're enough to make you truly barf. In one scene, Johnny Knoxville puts the wee man over his lap and powders his bare rear. What was the point, except to watch Knoxville and the cast and crew nearly collapsing on the floor with hysteria. Even worse is the continual showing of the fat man's bare rump and the different things that are done to it. You really want to barf. Why couldn't they have used the rears of some of the better looking guys--like the Party Boy? There's also one sequence where Bam Mangera receives a prostate exam in a sex shop in Russia. Bam screams and hollars and convulses while this is being done--with one finger--until you'd think this guy has a tree trunk being used instead of a doctor's finger. You can only hope that Jackass 3 will be a hell of a lot more interesting than these boring, lame episodes that are all so boring and lame and worthless that I could barely get through to the end.
  
  
• Why, Jackass? Why?
  By A1NSQHQ8OPA56J on 2008-01-17
  In what really should have been the second disc to "Jackass Number Two", Jackass 2.5 features behind-the-scenes, deleted segments, and interviews of the Jackass crew. That's pretty much it. All 64 minutes. Sure, some of the segments are funny, like the "Beauty and the Beast" segment and the one with Johnny Knoxville getting a prostate exam, but really, nothing that constitutes paying $20 or more.
  
  Special Features-
  *The Making of Jackass 2.5- Seems really redundant at this point, but it's more interviews and deleted stunts
  *The Making of Jackass The Game- A look at the Jackass gang doing motion capture for their game. Pretty funny.
  *Bonus Segments and Stunts- More stunts and segments from filming Number Two and their MTV premiere of Jackass The Movie.
  *A plug for jackassworld.com
  *A photo gallery
  *Previews for Wildboyz seasons 3 & 4 on DVD, The Heartbreak Kid, and Rob & Big seasons 1 & 2 on DVD.
  
  Overall, I don't think anyone should buy this unless they really need to complete their Jackass video collection. Now, I am a fan (I got both movies, and the box set), and I felt a little ripped off when I actually watched it. Would be a better idea to buy it if it was around $10 or so.
  
  
• Rip off....
  By A2UYAFQ40U2PHS on 2008-03-10
  As many have already said, this is not a new "film", but leftover commentaries and stunts from Jackass 2. I found it hilarious when MTV said they were releasing this straight to DVD, many "cultural" critics were aghast, saying this was the end of movies being released to theaters (and other melodramatic and hyperbolic things like that). Since when are the Jackass movies a measure of the motion picture industry anyway?
  
  MTV really should have released this with the Jackass 2 set. It would have improved it a bit. Jackass 2 is not as good as the first one, and it's quite uncomfortable to watch. I think the series has run its course, but then, some people can't get enough of these guys.
  
  

• Jackass Number Two (Unrated)
• Jackass - The Movie (Unrated Special Collector's Edition)
• Jackass - The Box Set
• Superbad (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
• Saw IV (Unrated Widescreen Edition)