I felt like a donkey laughing so hard at such stupidity and I feel like even more of a donkey admitting it in print.

But here it goes.

Watching Jackass: The Movie, I laughed until my sides hurt.

Johnny Knoxville and his crew of merry masochists assaulted my funnybone with some of the most insane stunts imaginable.

Dimwitted doesn't even begin to describe what they do.

In one sequence, they stuff fish bait in their swimming suits to test how a breed of toothless sharks will react.

Use your imagination -- even though they didn't before they went swimming with the massive sea creatures.

You can't verify this one by me, because I covered my eyes and ears during the scene where they claimed to be inflicting paper cuts between their fingers and toes, as well as on their tongues.

Knoxville had to be rushed to emergency rooms after stunts involving a demolition golf cart derby and a boxing match with Butterbean the human hammer. After the boxing encounter, the audience gets a ring-side seat as Knoxville has his head wound stitched.

At that point, I would have preferred a repeat of the moment when he allowed a baby alligator to clamp onto his nipple.

Jackass: The Movie doesn't have a single socially redeeming moment in it.

It's Fear Factor meets Candid Camera, but unlike Tom Green's antics, none of it is mean-spirited.

It's just plain dumb and senseless, but Knoxville and his friends are a bunch of really likable goofs and that's the charm of their film.

Unless you have absolutely no regard for your physical, psychological or emotional well-being, you certainly wouldn't want to party with these guys, but it sure is a riot watching the video footage of their escapades.

(This film is rated R)

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