Jackass: The Movie (2002)
Directed by Jeff Tremaine
Johnny Knoxville and his band of maniacs perform a variety of stunts and gross-out gags on the big screen for the first time. They wander around Japan in panda outfits, wreak havoc on a once civilized golf course, they even do stunts involving LIVE alligators, and so on.
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Directed by Jeff Tremaine ("Bad Grandpa," "Jackass: The Movie").
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
Directed by Larry Charles
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It's kind of like what Jackass would be if Johnny Knoxville and his boys had the brainpower necessary to become master satirists.
In fact, a great deal of Borat feels like Jackass with an agenda.
It seems difficult to justify seeing it on paper, but look at the evidence closer: Quickly evolving from producer/co-creator of MTV’s juvenilia celebration Jackass, to directing music videos (granted, award-winning ones), Jonze saw an Oscar nod for Best Director his first time out at the helm of a feature-length film (Being John Malkovich).
He made his early rep as the skateboarding director of videos for the Beastie Boys and Fatboy Slim, and birthed the Jackass franchise in its MTV and movie incarnations.
Spike Jonze, who directed some good films like BEING JOHN MALKOVICH and wrote some lesser works like episodes of the TV show "Jackass" (which he also created), for the first time directs his own script.
It’s a perfect tale for Mr. Jonze, a fabulist whose sense of the absurd informs his more broadly comic endeavors (notably his work on the “Jackass” movies, including “Bad Grandpa”) and the straighter if still kinked art-house films he’s directed, like “Being John Malkovich” and “Adaptation.”
He is ogling a woman getting out of the pool in slow-motion, after which she goes over to the former Jackass -star and tells him “It’s blow-time, mister.”
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From a city-wide chase – that not only features a lot of Glasgow, but owes Tron: Legacy a huge debt – to a power-plant showdown that sees Statham punching Elba while Elba punches Johnson in an unforgettable punch-athon – think Bam Margera’s Rocky segments in Jackass .