The Dudesons Movie (2006)

Powerful

Excellent but underrated film

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

As MTV personality Bam Margera so delicately put it, The Dudesons rock. Four childhood friends living in the Finnish countryside doing crazy stunts for a living and for a lifestyle, spawning a huge cult following and putting the likes of Jackass and Viva La Bam to shame.The Dudesons Movie, whilst essentially being the European version of Jackass, is additionally an interesting documentary which depicts the life of each of the four Dudesons as well as amazing time lapses and stills of the Finnish countryside. Despite the ensuring hilarity of the stunts these guys pull off, one wonders where to to draw the line between hilarity or insanity, a line in which the Dudesons are constantly crossing with their life-threatening antics.This is definitely one for the Jackass fans, it'll blow your f**king mind.

This movie is simply a compilation of the Spike T.V. series but including the profanity and the nudity. It is still well worth the $3.95 I paid to see it. As far as I know, this movie could have came before the series and afterward been edited and cut up for t.v. I do know this though, these guys are nuts and they are hilarious. The cast provides jackass like antics but with a more tight niche, almost family like group of dudes. There are only like four of these guys and you can see in the film that that they were clearly very close friends before this movie was made. You also get a neat perspective of Finnish culture throughout the film and their accents are very entertaining. I saw Jackass Two in the theater recently and I have to admit that these Finnish guys definitely compare and sometimes outshine the jackass cast in the categories of extremity and hilarity.P.S.-Bam Margera and Steve O. make appearances in this flick.

The movie is not so much a movie as it is a compilation of short stunts and bites. The movie has two main themes (in the lack of better words), first the viewer gets to follow the Dudesons for a year: Summer, autumn, winter, spring and finally summer again.The other theme is the presentation of each Dudeson. Here the other Dudesont comment on the attributes of the Dudeson who is presented... Thereby some stunts follow where this person plays some part.The movie is edited together with breathtaking landscape and nature scenes according to the season.This movie suits all those who like the Jackass and Dirty Sanches kind of pain/stunt shows.*** SPOILERS*** Some of the stunts that are done: + Baseball bat wake-up (Straight on the "jingle bells") + Going downhill in a thrash can #1 (what the name says) + Going downhill in a thrash can #2 (the boys forgot to put on the handbrake of the car ... hilarious moments follow when they try to catch the car traveling down hill) + The boys decide to make an open fire indoors (and burn their house) + Revenge on Mr Hitler (the boys take revenge on a old neighbor that tormented them in their childhood, taking a s#it in the letterbox and much more) + And many other stuntsThe movie was OK, if one likes this kind of stuff, a lot of hand-held camera action which makes the picture jumpy and fuzzy at times. It would have been funnier if there was some kind of deeper back story... but one can not ask too much of a plot in a stunt movie.All in all OK, therefore a 7.

This film is in many ways puerile. And it is over the top. And I did snigger and indeed laugh for the full 75 minutes. It's a great deal of fun and, despite the physical injuries the Dudesons regularly sustain, rather life-enhancing – they simply enjoy everything they do so much. It is an intensely physical film, and – for different reasons, unsuitable for male teenagers, the squeamish, or Britney Spears fans. (Presumably some people fall in all three categories.) Although the dialogue is in English throughout and the film clearly hopes to find an American audience it is many ways quite a Finnish experience. The emphasis on landscapes and the changing seasons is part of that. So is the un-self-consciousness about bodily functions, taken perhaps to an extreme that an Anglo-Celtic audience may find surprising. I doubt that there are many cultures where people who perform stunts might be trainee teachers – but perhaps that's one of the lesser-known strengths of the Finnish education system? Seven out of ten.