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When all the guys got together to make jackass number two in 2006, they filmed more than a movie—they filmed a movie and a half. Maybe even two. The problem was only 90 minutes of the resulting mess could be used in the final feature presentation, which left almost an hour of movie-caliber material piled up in the corner of the cutting room floor like a mound of elephant shit. Not knowing quite what to do with all this extra crap, Jeff Tremaine and Johnny Knoxville decidedly set it aside for some undecided future use.

For the better part of the year following the release of jackass number two, this cache of unseen footage remained in limbo until someone came up with the bright idea to film all new interviews with the cast about this excess of never-before-seen pranks, stunts, and random acts of behind-the-scenes mischief and stupidity, and package it up into a documentary-like feature called jackass 2.5. And to dispel any myths, rumors, or misguided notions that this was indeed the “new” jackass movie, the feature went straight to the Internet where anyone with a decent connection and half a technological brain could stream it for free.

Although this wasn’t necessarily a new jackass movie, it still proved to be every bit as funny, unbelievable, dirty, and downright sexy as its predecessors—maybe even more so at points.

Following its web debut, jackass 2.5 went straight to the DVD market with “added value” up the ass, including all the other extra footage that didn’t make the final cut, as well as featurettes on “the making of jackass 2.5,” an insightfully random look into the occupational life and times of Greg Wolf, and “the making of jackass the video game.”