"Nitro Circus The Movie" R (unrated)
In 2012 the cast and creators of Nitro Circus bike stunt show from MTV made a movie of their road trip to Las Vegas where they performed several insane stunts, many of them using motorcross bikes and big wheels and an actual school bus. They are related to Jackass and are even given kudos by Johnny Knoxville who calls them the bastard children of the same father, implying a different mother, of Jackass. Similar also to the CYK crew that originated Jackass, and the Dudesons, another stunt team of similar make, the Nitro Circus allegedly grew up together performing daredevil stunts ala Evil Kenevil meets the Rascals. Because they were somewhat related to producer Jeff Tremaine of Jackass they were not immediately disallowed to come on MTV and Spike and be motocross daredevils. The cast even includes a stunt bike female, similar to Jackass in the first season. Some of their biggest death defying stunts include launching a schoolbus hundreds of feet in the air, trying to jump a semi truck, jumping trike vehicles across a pair of skyscraper apartment buildings, and launching themselves off a ramp using a jet ski rope, a motorbike, and a big lake to land in. Not as reliant on gross stunts like Jackass or like Dirty Sanchez, they're more about making crazy ramps and jumps and seeing which one biffs and crashes first. They even launch their wheelchair bound frien off some of these ramps, gleefully enjoying a crash dive or two into a wall. The big wheel ramp scene is hilarious. The extended opening with the outdoor motorbike freestyle jump and flip with the cars is like nothing you will ever see. Extras on the DVD are slim and there are few seasons out yet of the show. It says unrated bu really it's R for profanity sometimes. The extras are unrated and feature someone making a flesh wound talk, which is pretty gross. The one really messed up stuntman scene is when the older guy keeps crashing his heavily painted stars and stripes car, on purpose, to make it roll over. Yay. Johnny should be proud. Some of the bike jumps are incredible because they obviously did not use CGI bikes!
Review by Adam Browne
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