Jackass: Number Two
MOVIE
It might be hard to call Jackass: Number Two art, but after seeing everything that Johnny Knoxville and friends went through just so I could alternately laugh hysterically and dry heave, I feel had not doing them that service. This movie is art. Performance art that's value lies only in the willingness of the performers, but art nonetheless. It's hilarious, disgusting and occasionally heartwarming.
for a sequel, so they raised the bar. It pays off — my cheeks are sore from laughing.
More of the same from the Jackass crew wasn't going to cut it
Everything in this movie is funny, and a handful of the stunts aredisgusting,including those that involve eating things produced by horses (not from horses, by horses). The heartwarming parts come when one person rides a rocket powered shopping cart or attempts a similarly frightening stunt. Each successful run is cheered vigorously by the rest of the Jackass crew. John Waters appears in *Jackass Two*, which also warmed my heart. Anyone who has seen or at least heard of Waters' movie *Pink Flamingos* will know why this is.
Rated:R
95 minutes
★★★★
Dennis Mersmann
Saint's Row
GAMES
XBox 360
Make no mistake, Saint's Row is a Grand Theft Auto clone. It takes place in a large, fictitious city full of crime and corruption, you're rewarded for acts of violence and immorality, and the game even shares Grand Theft Auto's love for bad double entendre (Rim Job's Body Shop, are you serious?).
So what sets this game apart from the other knock-offs? For starters,Saint's Row features some of the most inventive missions in the genre, many even better than GTA's. You'll run drugs with a sociopathic hippie, steal prostitutes from rival pimps, battle gangs for territories, fill orders for a chop shop and even commit some good old-fashioned insurance fraud. Each type of mission has varying objectives, which add plenty of variety to the game. Story missions are much more open-ended, allowing you to battle only one gang at a time or spread your vengeance evenly over all four enemy crews.
The worst thing about Saint's Row is its presentation. There are some graphical shortcomings and some physics issues that spring up from time to time and the online modes leave something to be desired. But those grips are barely noteworthy compared to the cheesy, laughably profane dialog, poorly cut scenes and the horribly designed character models. These flaws give Saint's Row all the street cred of a Leawood frat boy with a
tricked out Honda Civic.
Still, fans of free-roaming crime games will be happy with Saint's Row. It has great mission variety and the online element is a nice distraction once the single-player game is completed.
★★★★ Trevan McGee
ALL RATINGS ARE OUT OF A POSSIBLE FIVE STARS.★★★★★
10. 05.2006 JAYPLAY <13