The Movie for critics in time to make Friday's papers, apparently figuring that the picture's many quiet subtleties would be lost on those hurrying to make a deadline. Critics need a good laugh, too, and this too-extreme-for-TV rendition of the notorious MTV show delivers the outrageous, sickening, sidesplitting goods in steaming, visceral heaps. All that said, the "Jackass" experience is probably not for the faint of heart, especially when some of those stunts involve the administering of deliberate paper cuts with one serious-looking manila envelope slicing its way swiftly between each of Knoxville's fingers and toes.

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