Steve-O's Bucket List

I grew up watching jackass and I always liked the balance between funny and crazy stunts, but here it's just something very sad to watch, it's not funny at all, the back sedation stunt is one of the saddest things he did, sedated and taking Paintball shooting as always, nothing new, it's not funny, it's just humiliation, even worse than the vasectomy, I hope Steve understands that humiliating himself isn't the part that made jackass funny. He always mentions how he was a drug addict and managed to overcome that, but now it seems like he just wants to satisfy his Ego and not be funny. This special is just to shock the audience and not to make them feel funny...

I have been a Jackass fan and am not easily shocked but I guess there is a reason some of these stunts didn't feature on that show. Besides the shock factor Jackass tried to keep a balance between being shocking and funny and entertaining, at least for their target audience. Here, Steve O tries to think of the most shocking ways you can perform a stunt and hoping that it'll make for viral entertainment. But in reality the end product is the sad attempts of a middle aged man near the end of his career looking for one last hoorah, and hopefully a payday. I don't know what more to make of this but I wish he would work harder on his stand up act if he looks forward to transitioning into a more age appropriate career.

We're good Steven. We don't need anything else from you. We're good on the 'content' and the hot sauce and the everything else. This special isn't funny even though he thinks it is. It's not shocking even though he thinks it is. It's just gross and vile. It's not entertaining even though he thinks it is. He's been smelling his own farts for too long. He says as much. Any humor or charm this dude had is long gone, completely. This doesn't even feel remotely fun like his other material. Even the bit with irrelevant Burr is completely limp, but it's the closest thing to interesting fun stunt work in this cultural diarrhea. So your time will be better spent watching essentially anything else in the genre. Steve could put some kind of spin on things and make it fresh or relatable or fun. Maybe charity of some kind. Cleaning up garbage. Raising awareness of something we can all get behind with a wacky silly stunt. Literacy. Anything. This special shows just how self involved empty this guy really is upstairs. Completely vapid and degenerate with nothing redeeming. Just burn out already because you've already overstayed fade away. Dude.

If you're a fan of the Jackass crew you'll get some enjoyment out of this, but temper your expectations - most of the stuff you've heard about this special is way overhyped. It's in the format of the actual Bucket List Tour show, so the vast majority of it is Steve-O explaining the events leading up to the bits, and then over-explaining the bits instead of letting them play out on screen, then you see the actual bits - which were usually pretty short. I kind of wish he went with something like a more traditional Jackass structure, but Steve-O's bread and butter is his tour now. Overall, if you're a Steve-O fan, and want to some of the old crew back together, you will likely find this entertaining.