The Best Bad Movie of the Year is, indeed, a dubious honor, but it isn’t meant in a mean way. Jackass 2 represents the reality of the good kind of bad movie--it has no socially redeeming value, it is regularly disgusting, occasionally unwatchable, and utterly hilarious. The funniest, most cruel, and stupidly sophomoric movie of 2007 had no plot, no character development, and was gleefully vulgar. It’s obscenity was matched by its willingness to embarrass and provoke the stars into flights of true idiocy.

Shame is, obviously, a foreign concept to the Jackass crew, and watching the movie is like watching every dumb thing my friends and I did throughout our lives rolled up into one little bundle. That doesn’t sound like a recommendation, I’m sure, but it is. Just a guarded, honest recommendation. Have no doubt: it is a truly bad film with marginal production value and no depth whatsoever.

It’s wise to watch with the remote control close at hand and a willingness to fast forward past some of the worst bits, and that goes doubly if you or anyone else in the room has a week stomach. It goes too far, regularly, but it does it with a crass lack of dignity that is somehow compelling.