I hope to use this blog not only as a ranting and raving section, but also for movie reviews. As of yet I am still trying to decide on a rating system, but I don't I can really rate Jack Ass. Not because it was a horrible movie, but it doesn't conform to the typical movie mold, so here is what I will say about it.
I feel that this is the type of movie that America needs right now. Sure, it isn't for everyone's tastes, but what it does do is it makes people laugh. In the theatre I saw it in, the age spectrum ranged pretty well, from pre-teens to their middle aged moms. Not just that, but EVERYONE was laughing, if not gagging. And that's what we we need right now, laughter. Living in a country that is occupying 2 countries, a deficit that will never be evened out, and economy that is molasses slow in it's recovery, a political system that is just heinous (as the great Bill and Ted once said) and don't even get me going on the housing crisis. Laughter is exactly what we need to help get us through this crap that is otherwise known as the decline of our republic (read a book, its true).
Sure, the humor is foul and disgusting and barbaric, but sometimes you just need to laugh without thinking about anything.Only about how bad the next prank is going to be. Sure, Jack Ass is not for those with a week stomach (nor one filled with alcohol, you will laugh so hard you will feel like your bladder will burst!). But sometimes it is nice to goto a movie, sit in what one can only hope will be a comfortable seat, put on some 3D glasses and just laugh so hard it hurts and in doing so you truly forget about your problems. In that theatre the outside world doesn't exist because that theatre is your whole world. And when you can enter it without worrying about anything even for a movie like Jack Ass, that is the mark of a great movie.
Damien Jaymz
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