A very positive article about the movie “Jackass” entitled “The Rear End Of Civilization As We Know It” (washingtonpost.com) is up at WashingtonPost.com. Here are a couple of my favorite quotes to help entice you into reading the article.

“‘Jackass: The Movie’ has been lambasted as the end of civilization, but you get the sense that it exhausts critics more than it offends them: ‘As much as I laughed throughout the movie, I cannot mount a cogent defense of the film as entertainment, or even performance art,’ managed a stymied movie reviewer, Rene Rodriguez of the Miami Herald. ‘Jackass’ is gloriously critic-proof, a triumph of blessed stupidity.”

“What we are witnessing here, like the tropical cicadas that crawl up only every 17 years or so, is the final fruit of punk rock America. If you’ve ever had a punk band crash for a night in your apartment, you know what absolute gentlemen they can be, counter to everything that may have happened earlier onstage.”

I did go see this movie a couple of weeks ago and I laughed so hard that it hurt. Luckily there was no vomiting in the theater. A couple of my friends have been incredulous that I would want to see such mind-numbing filth, but it takes me back to my punk-rock / skateboarding roots where my friends and I did stupid stuff (to a lesser degree of course) all of the time. Besides it has a guy in a Panda suit landing an ollie kickflip to 5-0 stall on a planter in Japan. What other reason do you need to see this movie?