Weekend Movie Forecast: Jackass 3-D Vs. Red

It seems like only yesterday when every kid with a video camera and a few dumbass friends started filming themselves getting concussions because of a certain TV show about a bunch of older boys with a video camera doing really dumb shit. Ten years later, we have the release of the group's newest film, Jackass 3-D and it's amazing they're all still alive to see it. None of the Jackass movies really felt like movies, but more like hanging out with some of your old degenerate friends from high school, meaning fun for the night but not necessarily something you want to turn into a routine.Reviews have been ambivalent across the board, with Manohla Dargis from The New York Times saying: "It just might be that Americaâs favorite jackasses, having played around with sharks in their last big-screen effort (Jackass Number Two of course), have this time actually jumped one, and in 3-D no less."At times Mr. Knoxville and his pals seem to be exploring, with degrees of knowing and naÃ¯vetÃ©, some of the same surrealist terrain described by Luis BuÃ±uel in his memoir, 'My Last Sigh.' (Although in truth only Mr. Jonze, who shows up in a fat suit and under a schmear of latex, seems genuinely knowing.) BuÃ±uel extolled Surrealism partly for its 'aggressive morality based on the complete rejection of all existing values'. The Surrealists were responding to church and state, among other forces, while here the guys are reacting to, well, someone sticking something in the nearest hole. But the menâs raucously playful, uninhibited and affectionate engagement with one anotherâs habitually unclothed bodies can seem like a spit in the face (and elsewhere) to the outside worldâs homophobia." — Gothamist

Robert Horan

Published Oct 15, 2010

Modified Oct 15, 2010

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Click on the film stills for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include: Jackass 3-D, Red, Hereafter, Conviction, Samson and Delilah, Down Terrace, The Two Escobars, Carlos, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Paris at Dawn, and Band of Outsiders/Bob Le Flambeur.

Weekend Movie Forecast: <em>Jackass 3-D</em> Vs. <em>Red</em>