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This Weeks Movie Reviews: Jackass
Number 2
Directed by Jeff Tremaine. Produced by Jeff Tremaine, Spike Jonze and
Johnny Knoxville. With Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris
Pontius, Ryan Dunn, Wee Man, Preston Lacy, Dave England and Ehren McGhehey.
Paramount Pictures, 2006. R. 95 minutes. 44411 There's not a lot of gray area where Jackass is concerned. You either find humor in a bunch of twentysomething dudes finding ways to abuse each other, skateboarding in costumes and launching themselves off piers, or you don't. The peculiar invention of director Jeff Tremaine, Spike Jonze (Adaptation) and "freelance writer/stunt dummy" Johnny Knoxville, Jackass began life as an MTV series. In 2002, freed from the limits of basic cable, it took to the big screen, where skate prankster Bam Margera delighted in making his mom swear (it took an alligator in her kitchen, but it happened) and happy-go-lucky daredevil Knoxville tried to return a rental car after putting it through a demolition derby. Read more...
Jet
Li's Fearless
Directed by Ronny Yu. Screenplay by Chris Chow and Christine To. Cinematography,
Poon Hang Sand. Starring Jet Li, Nakamura Shidou, Sun Li, Dong Yong,
Nathan Jones, Collin Chou and Harada Masato. Rogue Pictures, 2006. PG-13.
103 minutes. 44111 Though he gets hit about as often as the Jackass guys, Jet Li doesn't offer much by way of humor in the rather earnest Jet Li's Fearless. It's reportedly the action star's final martial arts epic, but Fearless is neither particularly epic nor on par with other recent martial arts-centric films. The story is based on the life of Huo Yuanjia, who rose to fame as a fighter in China in the early 1900s. Huo (Li) grows from a slight, asthmatic boy whose father refuses to train him into a strapping, cheerful young man determined to be the hero of Tianjin. The film skips what's often the most interesting part in such a journey — Huo's training — and catapults straight into Huo's young adulthood, where a misguided killing leads to more horrible deaths. Distraught, Huo is literally adrift; he mopes in a boat long enough to grow a bushy beard before washing up on the shores of a lovely farming community that happens to be home to a beautiful blind girl, Moon (Sun Li). Huo learns to temper his fighting style and returns to Tianjin, forming the Jingwu Sports Federation and attracting the attention of the foreign powers in China, who want the idealistic fighter taken down. Read more...
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