Someone,
somewhere, recommended I check out a film based on the fact that I enjoy
pranks, comedy, and Jackass. Now if only I could remember who so I could
throw a golf ball at their testicles.
On to the
review!
Dirty Sanchez is the Welsh/English
version of Jackass. In 2006 they rode the wave of 'people doing
stupid shit to themselves' popularity and made Dirty Sanchez: The Movie.
However, whereas the cast of Jackass
and even The Dudesons were more into
ridiculous stunts and goofy, rarely mean-spirited pranks, the boys of Dirty Sanchez are all about being as
disgusting and pain-inflicting as possible.
The four
members are Matthew Pritchard, Lee Dainton, Mike Locke and Dan Joyce and in the
span of 90 minutes they inflict enough pain on themselves and each other to
send a dozen elderly ladies into shock.
Yes, Jackass had 'stunts' like
drinking sweat and tying a bottle rocket to a penis, but they were always interspersed
with sillier, goofier stunts. The boys
of Dirty Sanchez don't like silly. They
go for shock and awe but often end up delivering shock and disgust.
In order to
give the movie a plot, the film opens with the boys getting ready to pull the
most ill-advised stunt they can think of, ending with them all dead and at the
devil's doorstep. Satan tells them they
get one more chance in life but they have to wreak havoc while living out the
seven deadly sins. These sins take them
to 7 different locations throughout the world, with each country being loosely
connected to a particular sin (i.e. Japan - Pride, Thailand - Lust, etc.).
But the
pranks. The pranks. They are mostly horrifying. Yes, there are some genuinely funny
ones. For instance, one of the members,
Mike 'Pancho' Locke can sleep through damn near anything. Of course this means that he has to be abused
while he's sleeping, and it happens often.
At one point they spray paint him green and cut up his clothes to make
him look like The Incredible Hulk.
In another
scene they convince one of the guys that there is a Guinness World Record for
most times being hit with a paintball (102) and so he willingly gets shot 103
times. He stands still in only goggles
and a jockstrap as the other three take turns blasting away at him, 10 shots at
a time. (Though funny, it's still ridiculously
mean-spirited.)
Unfortunately,
for every entertaining prank there are a dozen wretched, disgusting,
over-the-top ones. Like getting
liposuction, then later having one member drink a tablespoon of the lipo fat. Or slicing the tip of a finger off. Or eating another man's vomit snot
bubble. Or getting a tattoo on their
penis. Or driving a nail through the
flesh between the thumb and pointer finger for a few hundred dollars at a
club. Yes, these were all in Dirty Sanchez: The Movie.
While I think
these guys had a few great ideas, there was just too much self-inflicted harm
to be funny, and for a very large portion of the film they were laughing alone
while I merely cringed. Basically, the
crew of Dirty Sanchez have taken stunts a bit too far for me to want to follow
on any more journeys.
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