Review of Jackass Forever (2022) by Hey-Person — 06 Feb 2022

This is a review from a long time Jackass/Viva la Bam/Wildboyz fan and I've seen pretty much everything these guys have done. That being said, this film did really well. It didn't surpass my expectations, but I was thoroughly entertained for the most part. Johnny as present as ever, cool callbacks to early Jackass/Wildboyz, new cast members to liven things up, and great production value around the skits and sets. For those that are wondering, no they didn't water down any of the content for this one, It is still as raunchy and crude as previous Jackasses, in fact they might actually take it a little too far sometimes in this one. But overall if you know Jackass, you know what you're gonna get.

Now, on to the tough criticism. For one, nothing here really wowed me like the previous 3. There's nothing as Gnarly as The Fish Hook or Riot Control Test, there's nothing as gross as The Butt Chugg or The Fart Mask, and there's nothing as funny as April's Alligator or Terror Taxi. Most of the skits here just seem like hybrid variations of skits we've seen before. Silence of the Lambs skit just seemed like a less funny combination of Medicine Ball Dodgeball in the Dark and Rattle Snake pit. Triple Wedgie was just a combination of Bungee Wedgie and The Bungee Jump, you see where I'm going. Also I feel like some of the cast were underutilized. Chris Pontius didn't seem to have much of a presence at all in the film. Some of the newer cast members like Eric Manaka and Rachel Wolfson could have had more screen time. Rachel did what? got stung by a scorpion a couple times and licked a tazer.. I feel like she could have done a lot more, like why wasn't she pranked on at all? Hell, they messed with Eric Andre more than Rachel and he's not an official crew member. Also while Jasper had some funny moments I feel like he wasn't used too much either. His father Darkshark was the one stealing the show. I felt like I was just seeing Jasper laughing in the sidelines too much. Poopies and Zachass are great additions though. Another thing, It's TOO short and the ending skit is unsatisfying overall.

I was watching the final skit not knowing it was the last skit just thinking to myself "ok this is a pretty funny one I feel like we're getting close to the end" and then the credits just started rolling... "That's it?" I said. I immediately pulled out my phone to check something...

30 skits. That's how many skits Jackass Forever has. You know how many skits Jackass: The Movie had? 55! And that's when they had a crew of 9, Now they have a crew of 13 and we only get 30 skits? Hell Jackass 3D was torn to pieces about how short it was and it had 46! I feel like too much time was wasted on fooling around and Johnny chasing people with tasers because that's the only thing that will save the skit that fell flat.

Back to the final skit, It's unsatisfying as hell. Just a bunch of unorganized paintball mayhem and explosions go off while 6 of the crew are strapped to a merry-go-round. It's funny, but it didn't really seem like a conclusion to the movie like the previous ones had. Also I didn't stay until the after credits but I didn't see any Rip Taylor memorial. NO LOOMIS?? WTF JACKASS?!? How is it Jackass without Loomis?

Also not enough public prank skits like they use to have, there's like 2 here but something about them seems fabricated.