So I’m stuck in Bracknell for the week. For those of you who have visited Bracknell and survived, for those of you wondering - it’s a bit like Slough to look at, but with less nice concrete and more, er, desolate landscape.
The upside of working away is that at least I get to watch a few movies, and last night I sat down to watch Jackass Number Two.
I’m a big fan of the first movie - it’s daft, brutal and at times painful to watch, but overall it is really really funny - I can’t watch it all the way through without pausing to get my breath back.
Number Two laughs at Jackass. The bungie wedgie is just too tame when compared to anaconda ball pits and snakes biting penises. By the time that Steve-O has a leech attached to his eyeball, I’d kind of gone past laughing really hard, and moved to really appalled. So whilst Jackass Number Two is funny in bits, for the most part, it’s just damn wrong.
Saying that, some of it is so funny I can’t even think about it without laughing - the fart mask and the big green ball made cry laughing, but for the most part it is uber puerile and not as funny as the first one. I do hope that they don’t make another one, because I’m pretty sure that they’ve all used up their 9 lives, and surely people will die if they make Jackass 3…
Still, if you are stuck in a hotel in Bracknell, then it’s still an entertaining 90 minutes, and much safer than venturing on to the streets.
