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Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: They're still here, suffering for their art. Now it's our turn. Read more
Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: Whether one enjoys witnessing their antics or not... one should be, I suppose, very glad that one doesn't actually have to hang out with these fellows, their obvious camaraderie notwithstanding. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: It just might be that America's favorite jackasses, having played around with sharks in their last big-screen effort, have this time actually jumped one, and in 3-D no less. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Jackass 3-D is powered by a shamelessly regressive but infectious adolescent prankishness. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: What's astonishing is that the movie is not a half-baked production. The spectacle now looks spectacular. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Die-hard fans of the original series, which had the good fortune to sprout before YouTube, may feel as if they're getting their money's worth here, though the 3-D component is awfully stingy and tends to be genital- or anal-based. Read more
Adam Graham, Detroit News: This feels like a natural end for the Jackass franchise. It's been a great run, but nobody wants to see Grandpa Knoxville get toppled over by a speeding shopping cart. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: More than ever, Johnny Knoxville and his boys belong to a very elite club of idiocy. Read more
Eric D. Snider, Film.com: It's gleefully immature. It revels in destruction. And it made me laugh a lot, like it always does. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: More often than not, this third installment in the franchise, directed as always by Jeff Tremaine, doesn't take full advantage of its visual potential. Read more
Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter: Despite the added dimension, Knoxville and company end up falling flat on their aspirations. Read more
Karina Longworth, L.A. Weekly: Jackass is at its best when all composition breaks down. Something like "Beehive Tetherball" gets its considerable power from the stunt going spectacularly wrong. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Too many of these sequences are merely disgusting. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Ten years into the Jackass franchise, it's obvious the well is starting to run dry. Then again, if you show Johnny Knoxville an empty well, he'll jump in headfirst. After packing it with writhing snakes. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Knoxville would never admit to such loser taste, but he and his friends are obviously scholars of The Divine Comedy, from which they plagiarized all of their ideas... Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: The Jackass guys, goaded on again by fearless leader Johnny Knoxville and director Jeff Tremaine, don't seem as eager to outrage as they once were. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: Jackass 3D has its moments, but it lacks the ingenuity and hilarity of the previous films -- no doubt in large part because of the aging process. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: For me, watching Jackass 3-D was like being plunged into a Hieronymous Bosch painting of hell, yet this very reaction attests to the franchise's primal, diabolical power. Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Hey, I might be flunking Calculus, young viewers tell themselves, but at least I'm not letting someone swing a dead mackerel in my face. Read more
Derek Adams, Time Out: It's fabulously funny in small doses, but these unrelenting pranks and farcical set-ups become too monotonous to endure for a full 94 minutes. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: Few suffer as cheerfully for their art as Johnny Knoxville and his band of scatological stuntmeisters, and the gut-busting pleasure they take in every act of self-humiliation proves as infectious as ever. Read more
Dan Kois, Washington Post: Indebted as director Jeff Tremaine is to Artaud's Theater of Cruelty and the works of Luis Bunuel, "Jackass 3D" remains surprisingly accessible. Read more