Yet another guilty pleasure :)

Yours truly has another guilty pleasure, raunchy humor, a trait picked up from my two "wonderful" older brothers while growing up. The fun inevitably starts when having a meal together as food brings out the worst of us but friends actually think we're funny, which brings me to Jackass Forever, a film I intend to see based on the trailer seen above. Even the NYTimes agrees in a stellar review detailing why this film works. :)

The Jackass guys have gotten older but, thankfully, their maturity levels have stayed the same. Over 22 years, three television seasons and movies on screens big and small, Johnny Knoxville’s lovable goons have been whacked so often that their orchestra of moans could play “O Fortuna.”

In “Jackass Forever,” the director Jeff Tremaine’s original cast — now solidly middle-aged war horses — expands to include younger, more elastic bodies like the rapper Jasper Dolphin (real name: Davon Wilson); an adult man who calls himself “Poopies” (Sean McInerney); and the stand-up comic Rachel Wolfson, the franchise’s first girl, who is dared to lick a stun gun.

In conclusion ...

Two things continue to hoist “Jackass” above its legion of imitators, many of whom are now found on TikTok. First, the razor-sharp slow-motion cinematography, which immortalizes writhing men in wet underpants with the devotion of Michelangelo sculpting “The Pietà.” Second — and more important — is the crew’s friendship, which is evident as they egg on the wounded and apply a healing salve of applause in nearly every scene. Bones get brittle. The heart muscle remains strong.

Gotta see the flick. :)