It’s difficult not to be concerned about the mental misery and physical suffering shown in the fourth and possibly last edition of the Jackass film series. After all, these are God’s creatures who are compelled to participate in nonsensically risky antics that endanger their lives and well-being for the sake of cheap, vulgar chuckles.
Of course, I’m referring to the film’s creatures, which include a tarantula, bear, scorpion, snake, vulture, bull, and hundreds of bees. Granted, the most of them aren’t the most cuddly of animals, but they deserve better. Your heart aches for them. Human celebrities, such as Johnny Knoxville, who goes into a ring with a charging bull and suffers a fractured rib, broken wrist, concussion, and brain hemorrhage as a consequence… Not so much, to be honest.
In a nod to the Greek story of Icarus, Jackass leader Johnny Knoxville is launched into the air donning feathered wings. It goes without saying that the Jackass identity is largely male – but it also goes without saying that the films are unusual in popular culture in that they display the penis, a portion of the male anatomy that is meticulously avoided in even the most blatantly graphic films. In the film Jackass Forever,
