Crazy white trash characters are great for movies. You can look at them and think, "Wow, they're fucked up," while patting yourself on the back for being at least a little better off. When the characters aren't fictional, though, it's tough to know how to react. Initially, you laugh your ass off, partially in shock. Eventually, you realize that these people are out there, and they're breeding. Jesco White is the accidental star of the family. His dad D. Ray, the family patriarch, was a famous tap dancer until he was killed in a shootout. Jesco picked up the skill and ran with it. PBS made a documentary about him in 1991 called The Dancing Outlaw, and they made a sequel eight years later. They were both popular, and after seeing them, Johnny Knoxville of Jackass fame decided that a follow-up involving the entire White clan needed to be made. He wasn't wrong.
We often make fun of people like this. I laughed throughout the movie at certain things, but there were many things that rightfully concerned me. In one scene, Jesco's sister Mamie tells her niece Kirk that CPS probably took her baby because they "found drugs in it." Drugs and It. Two words that made me shake my head. Later, Kirk swears she'll get her stuff together while doing a line of coke off the toilet tank in a dive bar. Maybe she just needed a little kick start, or maybe she just wanted some coke because thats all shes really used to. It just goes to show what your getting yourself into as you watch the rest of this movie
Although that's not the half of it. Jesco has two more sisters. We have Kirk's mother, Bo, who also has a son named Derek. Bo and Derek (two names that look hilarious on screen next to each other) spend lots of time together doing any drugs they can get their hands on. Then we have Sue Bob. Sue Bob is a former stripper who claims to have brought home $1500 to $2000 a night. When you see a picture of her when she was younger on the movie's official website, you see how that might be reasonable, but you don't see that in the movie. The Sue Bob you see claiming to be the "sexiest" one in the family makes you shake your head and ask your self, who in the fuck said you were beautiful? No affence but thats just what i thought. By the end of the movie, you'll know you never want to be anywhere near the White family, but I also felt a little sympathy for Jesco. Yes, he was screwed up, but he saw his dad get killed, and I think he suffers from depression. There's a good amount of unexpected philosophy from him, and it makes you see him for more than just a mess. There's a hurt scared kid in there, and I think the drugs and chaos are Jesco's way of keeping that kid calm. I intend to go back to the original documentaries to get the full picture, but you don't need to see them to enjoy this. Wild and wonderful it is, just like the Whites themselves. Id give this movie a 9 out of 10; 10 being the highest. If you like these sorts of movies i highly suggest this one.
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