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>We'll be covering the first 2 this week and then 3D and Forever next week.
You're missing about half the movies, and they're all better than Forever. Jackass 2.5 and Jackass 3.5 are both made out of deleted scenes from their respective theatrical films, but given that the series is a bunch of unrelated sketches anyway, it's not like that matters. Those deleted scenes are way funnier than Forever. You're also missing some other stuff (though admittedly the movies are the best parts of the franchise).
First of all, if you're gonna talk about CKY as if it's what spawned Jackass, you have to talk about Big Brother Magazine. That's what really spawned Jackass. It was a state mag run by future Jackass director Jeff Tremaine, and when Knoxville got hired as a writer, since he couldn't skate, instead he did stunts, like deliberately tazing himself or shooting himself with rubber bullets. Then they put out some tapes based on the magazine, and these are what Jackass is really based on. But those core people from Big Brother also reached out to the CKY crew and Steve-O (who was an independent professional clown, despite literally dropping out of clown college), to fill out the series. During Season 1, these three crews never even met each other. They just submitted their own bits and then Tremaine and the other behind the scenes guys edited them together.
After the first movie, they did a TV show called Wildboyz, about Steve-O and Pontius (with many guest stars including most of the cast of Jackass) going around the world and mostly interacting with animals. A lot of stunts were re-done for later movies, like when Steve-O put chicken in his underwear and climbed a tightrope over an alligator pit. Knoxville said he did Jackass The Movie as a finale, but then they convinced him to guest star in Wildboyz, and he was up for so much good stuff they convinced him he should just come back for another movie. The injuries he'd sustain in later movies basically ruined his life, but Wildboyz is the reason the franchise continued. I won't say I like this as much as the movies, but if you like the Jackass TV show, here is basically more of it.
At the same time, Bam and his crew did Viva La Bam, which I could never stand. Bam doesn't do cool stunts, he's just an asshole to everyone around him. I never got why anyone liked this guy, and a whole TV show of nothing but him is unbearable to me, but it was very successful at the time. It's basically part of Jackass canon.
After Jackass 2 they did a direct to video thing called Jackass Presents: Mat Hoffman's Tribute to Evel Knievel. I'm not gonna say it's as good as the actual Jackass movies, but notably Johnny Knoxville basically ripped his dick off in a stunt gone wrong. In later interviews, he doesn't admit that it doesn't work, but the way he describes it, there's no way his dick works anymore. So you gotta give this movie credit for one of their most extreme stunts/accidents.
Anyway, after Jackass 3.5, they released Bad Grandpa, which is a Borat-style thing of a fictional character (and a sidekick) going around and improving interactions with unwitting normal people. It's based on the bits Knoxville would do in Jackass, and it's of pretty comparable quality, at least in my opinion. Also, given Knoxville is an actual actor, you'd be surprised at how effective a few dramatic moments actually are, before they're undercut by more extreme stunts and slapstick. There is also a Bad Grandpa .5, which is basically a feature length making of documentary with lots of deleted scenes. Those deleted scenes are still really funny and I'd definitely say they're worth watching.
After that, Knoxville made a movie called Action Point, based on the infamous Action Park in New Jersey, which was one of the first water parks in the US, and infamous for being extremely dangerous. Action Point is a fully scripted movie, but does feature trademark Jackass stunts, and apparently Knoxville got really fucked up brain damage while making it. In some interviews he makes it sound like this is the one that fucked him up the most, but it's hard to say since he also seemed pretty fucked up when Butterbean knocked him out and he hit his head off a jewellery display, or one of the several times he got rammed and tossed by a bull. Anyway, the movie bombed badly but I liked it. Again, Knoxville is actually an okay actor, so I think the dialogue parts with him mostly work. Chris Pontius also plays basically his sidekick, and he's kinda funny in it too.
Jackass Forever has a couple good bits, but IMO none of the new people they got were any good, including the forced celebrity cameos. You can't make girls and black guys do as much crazy stuff because people would get mad about it. You're only allowed to have white guys get brain damage and rip their genitals off on camera, and the white guys who were the best at it were at this point all pushing 50 and legitimately dying. They got terribly hurt doing a simple treadmill marching band bit (the one bit Bam filmed before getting fired, though they don't point out that he's actually in the shot). In any previous movie, this would have been the tamest thing they did, but here it almost killed them. Knoxville has talked in interviews about how he has so much brain damage that he knows he probably won't live very long. It's sad, made sadder because they aren't doing as good bits anymore anyway. I don't remember as many extreme stunts from Forever as I do just gross out stuff, which I never found to be the good parts of Jackass. There is a Jackass 4.5, and I don't remember any of it, but if you're gonna watch the whole series you might as well watch it. The .5 movies are just as legitimate as the main movies. They're just more content, and usually of comparable quality. I just don't remember 4.5 because Forever wasn't very memorable to begin with.
There is also tons of other stuff made by other cast members, but they're mostly (but not all) terrible, and I wouldn't consider them canonical. The ones I consider canonical are the ones at least produced by the same company. Jeff Tremaine directing is really important, in my opinion. Plus, I might have to count Viva La Bam, but there's no way I'm counting that other reality show about Bam's marriage or whatever. I like Steve-O, and he's done a bunch of independent stunt videos that have some pretty crazy bits, but I can't bring myself to say they, let alone something like Dr. Steve-O, are canonical to Jackass. National Lampoon Presents: TV The Movie has a bunch of the second stringers from Jackass, and don't get me wrong, Wee-Man and Preston are a funny duo, but it's not Jackass, it's National Lampoon (even if at that point that brand existed in name only). Plus that movie is just horrible. There's tons of stuff like this, but not much point listing it.
I suppose the one thing that isn't quite a show or movie but I might as well mention is the Jackassworld.com 24 Hour Takeover, when the crew "took over" MTV for a day in 2008. Notably, this was the height of Steve-O's drug problem. He's totally fucked up and ruins the bits many times. He also shows off his rap. His rap is so bad that it's hilarious and he and the others cite is as his rock bottom moment that made them do an intervention for him, and which made him finally get off drugs.
You know what other movie isn't canon but is good? Where The Wild Things Are. Beautiful and touching children's film that will probably hit adults harder than it hits the kids. Directed by Spike Jonze. Famous for a bunch of excellent music videos (Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice might be his most famous), he's also famous for being both in front and behind the camera in Jackass. Notably he plays Bad Grandpa's wife. He was cut almost entirely out of the movie, but he's in the Jackass TV series and movies, and a bunch of his scenes are included in Bad Grandpa .5.
>tl;dr: Full Jackass chronology
>TV series
>The Movie
>WildBoyz
>Viva La Bam
>Number Two
>2.5
>Mat Hoffman's Tribute to Evel Knievel
>3D
>3.5
>Bad Grandpa
>Bad Grandpa .5
>Action Point
>Forever
>4.5