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Jackass Number Two (18)

Nov 24 2006 By Graham Young, Birmingham Mail

FOLLOWING on from the original Jackass: The Movie (2002), Johnny Knoxville and friends return with more practical jokes, incredible stunts and downright foolish moments of potential self-harm.

But, in order to impress young students who'll enjoy this the most, there's still an irresistible urge to go well beyond 'normal' boundaries of taste and decency.

If a man wants to push a fish-hook through his cheek and then dive into shark-infested waters on the end of a fishing line, or strap himself on to a rocket ready to be blasted across a lake, that's up to him.

But to have a bull headbutting a double-jointed see-saw is surely unfair on such a proud animal.

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