Jackass: Best and Last (dir. Jeff Tremaine)

by Jack Martin | Jun 28, 2026

Certificate: 18

Running Time: 92 mins

UK Distributor: Paramount Pictures

UK Release Date: 26 June 2026

WHO’S IN JACKASS: BEST AND LAST?

Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Jason “Wee Man” Acuña, Preston Lacy, Dave England, “Danger Ehren” McGhehey, Sean “Poopies” McInerney, Zach Holmes, Jasper Dolphin, Rachel Wolfson, Compston “Dark Shark” Wilson, Loomis Fall, Tory Belleci, Adam Ray

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Jeff Tremaine (director, producer), Spike Jonze and Johnny Knoxville (producers), Dimitry Elyashkevich (cinematographer), Jeff Buchanan, Ian Kornbluth, Matthew Kosinski and Matthew Probst (editors)

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

One final round of dangerous stunts for the original gang…

WHAT ARE MY THOUGHTS ON JACKASS: BEST AND LAST?

For over a quarter of a century, the opening four guitar riffs of Minutemen’s “Corona” has meant one thing and one thing only: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Wee Man, and their band of fellow daredevils are about to get the absolute wind knocked out of them in increasingly hilarious ways. But even for the Jackass crew, twenty-six years is a long time to be performing stunts that only those stupider than them would ever think to recreate, and with most of them now well into their fifties, it is beyond unreasonable to expect them to keep on doing it all without labelling it as elder abuse.

So, like most things in life, it’s time to say goodbye to Jackass as they bow out with their fifth and final movie, directed as always by co-creator of the original MTV series Jeff Tremaine. But Jackass: Best and Last is not so much a profound farewell to a bunch of modern-day comedy heroes, and more of a glorified clip show where the new material is limited at best while classic footage from the previous movies, as well as outtakes from the TV show, is greater emphasised. That fact alone may sully your overall opinion on the film, especially if you’re going in expecting yet another full-blown round of fresh stunts, but what we get is still funny and even poignant enough to make you realise how much you’re going to miss these guys.

As usual with the Jackass franchise, Best and Last has no plot, and is made up almost entirely of Knoxville et al putting themselves in harm’s way for the sake of some well-earned belly laughs. As mentioned, though, the newer material – which is fairly easy to tell apart, since they’re the segments where the grey hairs and wrinkles are more apparent among our team – is often intersected with archive footage that we’re either revisiting entirely or seeing slightly alternate versions of, or seeing for the first time on the big screen.

Such classic skits featured in this movie include the infamous “Poo Cocktail” and its 2010 sequel “Poo Cocktail Supreme”; the gang abducting Brad Pitt whilst he’s out in public (don’t worry, he’s in on it); the late Ryan Dunn inserting a toy car up himself and then getting an X-Ray; and perhaps most shocking of all – so shocking that it’s the one stunt to come with an extended warning label at the bottom of the screen – a younger Knoxville shooting his heavily guarded chest point-blank with a pistol. Meanwhile, the handful of new sketches involve an escape room that features an electric chair and a wheel of boots rotating toward someone’s groin, a marionette show with cast members attached to strings, the grimmest game of Twister ever put to celluloid (hint: laxatives are involved), and a robot performing a prostate exam on Steve-O with crunchy peanut butter as its lubricant.

If you laughed at just the mere description of these sketches, be they old or new, then you’ll more than likely laugh at them when they’re put into practice. Not only is the eagerness of Knoxville and company to perform these dangerous stunts always a comedic delight to behold, but the filmmakers have curated such an enjoyable collection of physical comedy from across the decades that you’ll feel the giggles take hold of you, despite the fact that you’ve seen a majority of them before. It more or less proves that the beauty of Jackass is that, no matter how old it is or even how gross or occasionally life-threatening it can be, its slapstick comedy is as timeless as that of Buster Keaton and Tom and Jerry (both given a shout-out in the “special thanks” section of the end credits), and generates just as much laughter as the first time that you saw it.

That being said, Jackass: Best and Last is a slightly odd note to end on, given its overly nostalgic clip show structure. In a sense, it’s easy to understand why they went this route for the final film, since a) the aging nature of the performers has severely reduced their agility as well as their pain tolerance to do any major new stunts, and b) revisiting some of the most beloved sketches in the franchise’s history does open up some bittersweet memories for the viewers and even the cast themselves, who reminisce about the old days in numerous wraparound segments. However, it somewhat defeats the purpose of going into a brand-new Jackass movie expecting, well, a brand-new Jackass movie, so seeing a bunch of old footage that anyone can find anywhere in today’s world of streaming and YouTube compilations, instead of really making their final outing a grand enough spectacle to rival or even surpass the highpoint of this series (which remains 2022’s genuinely spectacular Jackass Forever), can make the whole thing feel like a surprising anti-climax.

Needless to say, the film breaks the franchise’s streak of each one being better than its predecessor, which is a slight shame (for those asking, I’d slot it somewhere between the first and second movie on the lower end of the scale). But at the same time, it would be foolish to entirely write off Jackass: Best and Last just because it takes a slightly safer path to the finish line. What we still get here is prime Jackass material, and anyone who’s been with it all these years, whether it’s just the movies or as far back as the original TV show, will find something worthwhile to guffaw at as they look back on the mindless comedy that they’ve grown up with, right alongside our ever-valiant band of idiots.

To them, we salute you; now go and enjoy your well-earned retirement before you change your severely concussed minds.

SO, TO SUM UP…

Jackass: Best and Last may not elevate the hilarious and somewhat timeless slapstick comedy franchise any higher, thanks to its heavy reliance on old footage instead of newer material, but at least the reheated material is funny enough to make us realise that we’ll miss their dangerous tomfoolery.