Customer Reviews

Jackass 2.5

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

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.

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.

I laughed. A lot. Many fans feel cheated that these bits were recycled from the second film, but I think they should have been tipped off by the fact that they called it part 2.5 and not part 3. I wasn't surprised and I didn't feel deceived.

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.

I paid $5 for this DVD at Walmart and I feel ripped off. It's absolute rubbish, just a bunch of moments that weren't good enough to make it into Jackass 2. I wish I had bought a coffee at Starbucks instead.

I've been a Jackass fan ever since I was a kid and it premiered on MTV, but this DVD, wow, it blows. It' comprised of the skits that didn't make it to Jackass 2, and you know as soon as you pop it in to your DVD player you'll know why. Preston Lacy painted up like a gorilla on top of a porta potty while mini planes are being flown into him was just plain stupid, and believe me I know stupid. It's not nearly as funny as it sounds. This is something that should have been packaged with Jackass 2, or at least should have been put out with a deluxe edition and charge an extra 5 bucks for it. Would be fair don't you think?

I am surprised to see such a low rating and so many bad reviews for this DVD, What were you people expecting? A brand new movie?

This just like every other Jackass release, made me laugh my ASS off the whole way through. I can respect people's opinion's, but sometimes they really make me scratch my head.

I recommend this fun little DVD to any Jackass fan who want's to see some really funny footage that Unfortunately couldn't make it in Number Two :)

A lot of people have posted how this is a rip off and they should have included it with the extras on the "Number Two" DVD and blah blah blah. This is really a lot of hit and miss stuff. A lot of the stunts/skits are great and then there are a few that are just mind-numbingly bad. The thing is that the good ones so far outshine the bad that it makes it great to pop into the player for a good laugh and really for a fan it is a must have. A lot of the stuff on here is the stuff that are glimpsed of during the end credits of the movie. It is essentially what the second disk of "Number Two" would have been had they released it as a two disk set. For that reason the extras on here are pretty sparse. No commentary as there is pretty much a running commentary through interviews between stunts. I highly recommend it but I'm a die hard fan who wishes they would make a third movie.

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.

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.