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[Ed. note: Maybe all the other chest-thumping, body-slamming antics featured in our Sports Issue haven't been quite enough for you. Here's a trip down memory lane...]
Braver than Borat, funnier than Talladega Nights, more cathartic than United 93, crazier than Apocalypto, and gayer than Another Gay Movie, the feature-length compendium of dick stunts, ass foolery, and masochistic male bonding known as Jackass Number Two was the ballsiest movie of 2006. Nothing in this scatological sequel is too much for Johnny Knoxville and his merry band of skate-punk yahoos -- and much would feel right at home in the freakiest underground fetish porn.
Horse jizz is guzzled, puppet-sheathed cocks are fanged by snakes, and high-speed dildos are launched up the butt, as are large quantities of beer in the immortal Butt Chug routine. Stupid? No doubt. But also an exhilarating assault on homosocial taboos and the most sustained subversion of gay panic ever seen in a Hollywood movie. These mischievous man-boys are loving it -- up the ass, in the nude, on the nuts -- and multiplex America loved them right back. Puerile? Progress!
-- NATHAN LEE
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