DIRTY SANCHEZ: THE MOVIE


UK, 2006, 94 minutes, Colour.
Directed by Jim Hickey.

This is not a review. Rather, it might serve as a warning. There are must-see films. This is, instead, a must-not see film. Let me quote the reputable British magazine, Sight and Sound: ‘…it moves from the merely vile to the truly unspeakable’. It concludes its review by claiming that it must be a candidate for the most demented film to get theatrical release.

And what is it? If you know the Jackass television series and the movies, then you know of these programs where pranksters who have little sense and no good taste take on feats of stupidity and/or crassness in the name of fun and daring. Well, Jackass does have Johnny Knoxville who can sometimes be sympathetic in films. Dirty Sanchez is a British group (three Welsh and one Englishman) who also have a television program and now attempt to outdo Jackass. They certainly do. Most of their stunts involve the body and every bodily function in mind and sense-boggling ugliness – with looong takes of them laughing their heads off at what they are doing. Most audiences, were they to stay through it all, would have to look away at least from some of the nauseating stunts.

No wonder some cultures are repelled by the West.