Jackass: The Movie

Jackass: The Movie brings the cast of the MTV television series to the big screen, with Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Ryan Dunn and Jason Acuña playing themselves. The premise is simply the show's: a group of performers carry out dangerous stunts, pranks and crude gags on camera. Much of the film follows the crew through Japan, where they dress as pandas, disrupt a golf course and take part in stunts involving live alligators, alongside body shocks, tattoos and skateboard and mountain bike routines.

Jeff Tremaine directed, working from a screenplay he wrote with Spike Jonze and Johnny Knoxville; the three also produced. It was Tremaine's first feature as director and the beginning of a run of Jackass films that continued with Jackass Number Two, Jackass 3D, Bad Grandpa, Jackass Forever and later entries. The production was small, with a budget of about 5 million dollars, and it earned roughly 64 million dollars worldwide, a strong return for a film of that scale.

On IMDb the film holds 6.6 out of 10 from over 100,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.3 from a much smaller number of votes. A critics' rating of 5.5 out of 10 from 94 reviews places it slightly below the audience scores.