Who or what are The Dudesons? Short answer, they're four young men hailing from Finland who grew up together and became close friends. They also more or less kick started the whole 'extreme dumb stunts' thing that made Jackass and Viva La Bam! the hits that they were for MTV. These guys are the originators, they predate what Knoxville and company were doing by a couple of years, and in some ways, they're even more daring and/or more insane.

So you'd think that The Dudesons Movie would be full of crazy stunts, wacky comedy and guys flying off of skateboards and bikes and landing on their faces… stuff like that, right? Right! But that's only part of what we get here in this film that is as much a 'get to know The Dudesons' piece as it is a montage of messed up comedy and stunt work. The result is a strange mix of biographical content and physical comedy set against the backdrop of the natural beauty of northern Finland.

At any rate, the four men that make up The Dudesons are Jarppi Leppala, Jukka Hilden, Jarno Laasala, and HP Parvianen and as the movie introduces us to each of the four men it also explains to us their basic personality traits as well as their niche within the group. We've got a ladies man, a practical joker, a daredevil and an archivist, essentially and when they work together they do more or less get all of the bases covered and The Dudesons ends up being a pretty well rounded comedy troupe. Because these guys have known one another for so long and are so comfortable around each other they've got very few inhibitions and they also have a strange sort of loyal trust to one another. While this loyalty won't stop them from pulling pranks on each other it does allow them to really go for it when filming their tricks as they know that if something goes wrong one of the other guys is there to help out. This results in a willingness to attempt some pretty ridiculous events, which we get bits and pieces of in the film.

That there is the problem.

There aren't a lot of complete bits in here, mostly just pieces from the various stunts that they've pulled off over the years rather than entire segments and the movie at times almost feels like a trailer reel. We get as much, if not more, talking head/interview footage with the four guys than we do actual stunt footage and while they come across as completely likeable types, the stunt footage is really what most of us are wanting to see on a release like this. That being said, there are still some great moments in here including a few stunts that don't work out so well and one that seriously injures one of the guys and lands him in the hospital.

The humor is crass and juvenile, just like the Jackass material, but parts of it are undeniably funny and it's hard not to snicker at some of this stuff. At one point The Dudesons meet up with Steve-O, who sings their praises, and Bam Margera pops in to give us his take on them as well – both Jackass alumni have nothing but kind things to say about their Scandinavian predecessors. We also get to learn about their house pet, a gigantic pig that share the house with them. This all unfolds around some truly impressive scenery as they live in an interesting and beautiful part of the world that the cameras do a surprisingly good job of capturing in this movie. This is worth watching if you want to get a feeling for who these guys are and what they're all about but there are hopefully going to be more releases in the future that concentrate on their stunts. The physical comedy and daredevil antics are what make these guys so entertaining and while the biographical segments here are interesting enough, they don't have a lot of replay value and more of the funny stuff would have gone a long way to making this more enjoyable than it is. It's not that it's bad, it's just that it could have been so much more…