Jackass Number Two

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Jackass Number Two
Directed by	Jeff Tremaine
Produced by	Sean Cliver Spike Jonze Johnny Knoxville
Written by	Jeff Tremaine All of the Jackass cast
Starring	Johnny Knoxville Bam Margera Chris Pontius Steve-O Ryan Dunn Dave England Jason "Wee Man" Acuña Preston Lacy Ehren McGhehey
Music by	Manish Raval Tom Wolfe
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures MTV Films Dickhouse Productions Lynch Siderow Productions
Release date(s)	September 22, 2006
Language	English
Budget	$11.5 million
Preceded by	Jackass: The Movie
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Jackass Number Two is the sequel to the 2002 comedy film, Jackass: The Movie, itself based upon by its MTV series. The entire main cast of the original came back to do the movie, including Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Chris Pontius, Steve-O, Dave England, Ehren McGhehey, Preston Lacy, and Jason "Wee-Man" Acuña. Most of the semi-regular cast members returned as well, with the exceptions of Raab Himself, Rake Yohn and Tim Glomb. Shooting began in January 2006. The release date for the film was September 22, 2006.The film also includes cameos by Brandon Novak, Brandon DiCamillo, Luke Wilson, Willie Garson, Mark Zupan (Murderball), Dimitry Elyashkevich, Lance Bangs, David Weathers, Rick Kosick, Spike Jonze and cult film directors John Waters (A Dirty Shame), Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers) and Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-Head). Professional BMX rider Mat Hoffman and professional skater Tony Hawk both performed stunts. Rap group Three 6 Mafia also appears, as well as HIM singer Ville Valo, actor James DeBello, with Kat Von D, as well as NFL star Jason Taylor. Stunts including Jackass and Viva La Bam regular Don Vito were also filmed and shown in previews. However, due to the scandal surrounding his arrest just prior to the film's release, his scenes were cut, and Vito was declared persona non grata among the Jackass cast and crew due to the nature of the charges against him.

Fans of the series saw cast members shooting in various states in America, but the Jackass cast refused to divulge where they were filming, out of fear of fans interfering with the filming process. They have also filmed in India, Australia, and Moscow. A few insights were leaked prior to the movie's release by Steve-O and Bam Margera via Radio Bam and Loveline. Other shootings were Bull Shoals, Arkansas; Key West, Florida; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; and West Chester, Pennsylvania.

On June 15, 2006, Yahoo! released the first official teaser for the movie[1]. The stunts in the trailer included Knoxville riding a "rocket bike" off a ramp and a blindfolded Knoxville being rammed by a yak.

The film had 4 different screenings for fans of Jackass and MySpace users, which was a part of MySpace's "Black Carpet" screening. The screenings took place a few days before the movie was released (possibly August). Some of the screenings also had surprise visits by cast and crew. For example, the Pennsylvania screening had director Jeff Tremaine and cast members Johnny Knoxville and Bam Margera.

The DVD of the movie is now available in its R rated version in full and wide screen and in its unrated version in widescreen.^[1]

Contents 1 Summary 1.1 Opening 1.2 Stunts 1.3 Ending 1.4 Credits 2 DVD Release 3 Soundtrack 4 Reception 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Summary

Just as the first TV series and first movie, Jackass: Number Two has essentially no plot. Instead, it is a collection of stunts and pranks.

[edit] Opening

The film opens with the sound of "The Ecstasy of Gold" from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly score by Ennio Morricone and the cast members running through a cloud of dust in a slow western style, returning in the blaze of glory for what could be their final adventure. Behind them is revealed to be a group of large bulls chasing them through an abandoned neighborhood. The men, one by one, are taken down by the stampede, until only Johnny Knoxville and Bam Margera are left, and are chased through a house. Bam jumps through a window, and Johnny stops in his tracks to deliver his signature line, “Hi, I’m Johnny Knoxville, welcome to Jackass!”, and is pushed through a window by several bulls, and the title comes to screen, “Jackass Number Two”.

[edit] Stunts

Main article: Stunts performed in Jackass Number Two

In total, 52 stunts were featured in the theatrical release.

[edit] Ending

The movie finishes with a Busby Berkeley-style movie musical production number set to the "La Cage aux Folles" song "The Best Of Times," where the cast sing and dance while getting battered by violent stunts. One stunt involves Wee Man and Preston Lacy sliding onto a bunch of metal trash cans. Others involve Chris Pontius dancing in a flaming building and jumping safely onto a mat, at which point he is knocked off his feet by a fire hose, and Bam and Dunn dancing in cowboy outfits in front of a horse before Knoxville causes the horse to flee by slapping its rear, pulling Bam and Dunn away by a rope attached to their feet. This huge sequence might have been inspired by the fact that in the first film, a huge finale was planned in a similar fashion, but the contraption that was to be used for the stunt failed and could not be fixed in time. Also, as in the first film, Rip Taylor is seen at the end of the sequence.

[edit] Credits

The credits feature outtakes and deleted scenes.

[edit] DVD Release

The Rated and Unrated DVD versions of the movie were released on December 26, 2006.^[1]

The rated version includes the 96 minute theatrical release, with bonus features. And the Unrated includes extended unrated parts that were shortened in the original movie. Both DVDs feature commentary by most of the cast and crew members Jeff Tremaine and Dimitry Elyashkevich, easter eggs, The Making of Jackass featurette, 16 deleted scenes removed from the theatrical release, more than 20 additional scenes, 9 tv spots, 8 promotional spots including trailer, gag reel, the uncensored version of Karazy by Chris Pontius and a promotional commercial for the 2006 VMA's.^[1]

[edit] Soundtrack

The soundtrack was released on September 26, 2006 by Bulletproof Records. The soundtrack features songs that were featured in the movie, and various audio clips from the movie. Three Six Mafia teamed up with Saliva front man, Josey Scott to create the song "Gettin' Fucked Up" exclusively for the soundtrack. And another collaboration, Karen O from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, teamed up with Peaches to write "Backass," another exclusive for the soundtrack. The soundtrack also includes the debut single from Chris Pontius for "Karazy" and a cover by rock-group Smut Peddlers, in which they cover Roger Alan Wade's "If You're Gonna Be Dumb." The soundtrack also includes their version of "The Best of Times." Oddly enough, the Wolfmother song "The Joker & the Thief" (the movie's single) isn't featured on the soundtrack. A clean version of this cd is available but, it doesn't have "Gettin' Fucked Up" and "Fuck the Pain Away"

Jackass Number Two: Music from the Motion Picture
Soundtrack by Various Artists
Released	2006
Recorded	2006
Genre	Alternative rock Film score
Label	Bulletproof

Song	Band
I'm Going to the Moon	Johnny Knoxville*
If You're Gonna Be Dumb	Smut Peddlers
Gettin' Fucked Up	Three Six Mafia feat. Josey Scott***
Backass	Karen O feat. Peaches
I'm Ashamed of Myself	Chris Pontius*
MF (Motherfucker) from Hell	The Datsuns
I'm Going to Die	Ehren McGhehey*
All My Friends Are Dead	Turbonegro
Urban Struggle	The Vandals
Your Teeth Look Like	Brandon DiCamillo*
Fly	Cakecutter
Rectal Bleeding	Johnny Knoxville*
Fuck the Pain Away	Peaches***
Are You Crying?	Johnny Knoxville & Bam Margera*
A Little Less Conversation	Elvis Presley
Cut Your Hair	Pavement
Karazy	Chris Pontius
I Need a Doctor	Steve-O*
Spill the Blood	Slayer
My Ass Hurts So Bad	Dave England*
Johnny, Are You Queer?	Josie Cotton
Sometimes I Don't Know If I'll Make It	Roger Alan Wade
The Best of Times	The Cast of Jackass
Treatment Bound	The Replacements**

(*) refers to audio clips (as opposed to music) from the movie, except for "Your Teeth Look Like."

(**) Heard at the end of the movie during the credits and not featured in the soundtrack, at about the time when Steve-O jumps through the light rack

(***) Not available on the edited version of the soundtrack.

[edit] Reception

The film grossed US$29 million during its opening weekend, taking the number one spot at the box office. [2] The film grossed an additional $14 million in its second week. The film made $84,210,524 worldwide, more than the original.

• Michael Medved gave Jackass Number Two zero stars (out of four) calling it a "truly appalling" film[3].
• The New York Times awarded Jackass Number Two a Critic's Pick, calling it "Debased, infantile and reckless in the extreme, this compendium of body bravado and malfunction makes for some of the most fearless, liberated and cathartic comedy in modern movies." [4]
• Ebert & Roeper's Roeper and guest critic Fred Willard gave Jackass Number Two "Two Thumbs Up," as said in the previews after the rating.
• Movie critic Joe Gayeski of the website AndersonVision gave Jackass Number Two a rating of three and half stars out of 5, which according to his rating definitions, is defined as "Very Good." He did write though that Jackass: The Movie had a much more coherent and successful "rocking beat of a narrative" than its sequel, but the latter is still among the more hilarious pictures to have come from the "Hollywood comedy machine" in the last few years, especially in 2006.
• It received a rating of 60% (positive) on RottenTomatoes.com, with the critical consensus being; "It dares you not to laugh."

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Amazon.com. DVD Release info..

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Jackass: Number Two at the Internet Movie Database
• Jackass: Number Two at Rotten Tomatoes
• Jackass: Number Two at Metacritic
• Jackass: Number 2 at The Big Movie Review - www.tbmr.co.uk
• Heavy.com for the official Jackass 2 Party Boy video contest details

• 2007 SuicideGirls interview with Jackass Number Two director Jeff Tremaine by Daniel Robert Epstein
• Jeff Tremaine, Jackass Two director, interviewed by MTV on october 2006

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Main Cast
Johnny Knoxville | Bam Margera | Steve-O | Chris Pontius | Ryan Dunn | Jason "Wee Man" Acuña | Preston Lacy | Dave England | Ehren McGhehey
Supporting Cast
Brandon DiCamillo | Theodore "Rake Yohn" Webb | Chris "Raab Himself" Raab | Phil Margera | April Margera | Manny Puig
Crew
Jeff Tremaine | Spike Jonze | Dimitry Elyashkevich | Rick Kosick | Lance Bangs
Television shows
Jackass | Wildboyz | Viva La Bam | Homewrecker | Bam's Unholy Union
Films
Jackass: The Movie (stunts) | Jackass Number Two (stunts)
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