Jackass Number Two ***

I really laughed out loud at some of this latest Jack Arse (as Ralph calls it) production. Some of the sketches were only quite amusing and some I could have done without, but it was definitely worth it overall; I love all the rocket propelled shopping trolley kind of stuff. Johnny Knoxville seems to be an interesting nutter; he obviously works hard at what he does, succeeding in getting his mates to do some very painful things to themselves. At one point he and two or three of his cronies are planning to stand in front of a device that is designed to protect besieged embassies by firing dozens of little pellets at high speed at the offending marauders. We witness the machine being discharged at a dummy target and shredding it. "Why should we do this?" someone asks. "It's footage", replies Mr Knoxville before taking the full brunt of the thing; it knocked him over and left penny sized welts all over his chest. As each skit happened I tried to imagine if I would be prepared to have a go at it, there wasn't one. Not a film to watch with your mum.

"Rectal bleeding......another first for Jackass".