Sure there may be preconceived notions that the Jackass flicks are full of dudes getting punched and gross-out humour. Believe me, both of these things are true of the new Jackass 3D, but it's more than that; this latest installment will have you rolling with laughter from beginning to end.

The usual suspects are featured in Jackass 3D: Bam Margera, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Ryan Dunn, Jason "Wee Man" Acuña and director Jeff Tremaine, who has been with the boys since the TV show. Each of these fine, upstanding citizens takes their turn doing all the things Jackass has come to be known for. Bam is featured prominently in the "Rocky" and "Rocky 2" stunts, both of which involve some intense slowmotion 3D shots. In his moment of glory, he faces what he describes to be the scariest scenario he could imagine. Knoxville goes toe to toe with a bull, among other animals, and musters up an impressive amount of courage to be dressed up like Santa and cling to the top of a soon-to-be-chopped-down tree. Steve-O is considerably tamer this time around, participating in only one stunt that is gag inducing for the audience. The rest of the stunts performed in this flick are akin to their predecessors; random objects hitting an unaware passerby with brutal force, slapping faces with a wide selection of objects and getting generally assaulted in what appear to be the most painful ways these guys could conceive.

If the far too many close-ups and the numerous unmentionable objects flying directly towards the viewer's face can be looked past, Jackass 3D does what few other 3D films have done. Tremaine's film shows off what the technology of 3D film is meant for. This may come as a surprise to many cynics of Jackass, but the 3D is astonishing. Too often 3D movies fill their screen time with computer generated graphics and shock value effects, but this is not the case in Jackass. The flick contains many simple 3D shots that give the desired effect of the technology: to make you feel as though the movie is a little more real. And while it does contain shots of faces slapped by fish and paintballs to the naked torso, the opening sequence of Jackass 3D, shot with an extremely high speed 3D camera, gives an astonishing slow motion, fully three dimensional cinematic experience. That is the epitome of what 3D is meant for, if you can separate the medium from the message in this case.

Above all else, even if you think it is not quite your thing, Jackass 3D is a movie that will make you laugh. It becomes impossible to contain your genuine laughter after viewing stunt after stunt, put up on screen simply to generate that very laughter. It might be stupid and pointless, and those guys are certainly jackasses, but if you want a good, laugh-out-loud 90 minutes, this is absolutely what you're looking for.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars