an inspiration point

Monday, sep. 25, 2006   |   0 comments

Are you aware that Jackass: Number Two is getting good reviews? According to Nathan Lee of the New York Times: “this compendium of body bravado and malfunction makes for some of the most fearless, liberated and cathartic comedy in modern movies.” Meanwhile a review from J.R. Jones of the Chicago Reader celebrates the film’s “inspired dadaist moments.” What? How can this be?

On one hand: totally terrifying. And yet … it’s also sort of inspiring to discover that this is a world where a movie featuring a (as another reviewer describes it) “guy who craps in a miniature toilet” is able to muster some mainstream love. It’s almost as though anything could happen.