Jackass: Best and Last Review: Worth Watching or Just Old Stunts Again?

Jackass: Best and Last Review Verdict: Jackass: Best and Last is not the most original film in the franchise; it was never going to be. What it is, surprisingly, is its most emotional one. A graduation ceremony disguised as a clip show, a farewell dressed up in excrement and electric collars, it sends off the most improbable cultural institution of the last 25 years with more poignancy than anyone buying a ticket to watch men get hit in the groin has any right to expect.

Jackass: Best and Last is now in wide theatrical release from Paramount Pictures. This review is based on the full cut. Spoilers are limited to the structure and tone of the film, not specific stunt reveals.

Quick Verdict: Is Jackass Best and Last Worth Watching?

Yes. But with one important caveat that the film’s own structure makes unavoidable: if you have watched the Jackass films recently and know them well, roughly forty percent of this movie will be material you have already seen. That percentage matters, and how much it bothers you will determine how you experience the rest.

For everyone else, the casual fans, the lapsed viewers, the people who grew up with CKY tapes and DVD box sets and want to properly say goodbye, Jackass: Best and Last is the best possible version of what a Jackass finale could be. The argument that the Jackass crew is the 21st-century answer to Buster Keaton is strongest where the jokes are divorced from the general spirit of shock-chasing that characterized much early-2000s reality TV, and this film, more than any previous entry, gives you enough time to notice the craft underneath the chaos.

It is funny, frequently very funny, and unexpectedly moving in ways that will catch you off guard. Go see it in a full theater. The communal experience is, as ever with Jackass, the whole point.

Jackass Best and Last (2026) Movie Details

Jackass Best and Last Story & Plot

Jackass: Best and Last is a 2026 American reality slapstick comedy film directed by Jeff Tremaine and produced by Tremaine, Spike Jonze, and Johnny Knoxville. It is the fifth and final main installment in the Jackass film series, following Jackass Forever in 2022.

Steve-O said on his podcast that the movie will serve as a celebration of the entire franchise, bringing back the best bits of the TV show and previous movies, along with brand new ones and never-before-seen footage. In practice, the film is structured roughly as: 40% greatest hits from across the TV series and previous films, 30% new stunts filmed in early 2026, and 30% footage that was either previously unaired or deemed too dangerous or imitable for broadcast at the time of original production.

Knoxville said this will be the last Jackass film. “This is the natural place to end,” he said. He also said that this movie will not have a .5 sequel, making this the second Jackass film without a .5 version, after the original Jackass: The Movie in 2002.

Jackass: Best and Last Cast and Characters

The film stars original Jackass members Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Wee Man, Preston Lacy, Dave England, and Danger Ehren, along with Poopies, Zach Holmes, Jasper Dolphin, and Rachel Wolfson, who all became new members in the previous Jackass film.

Jackass Best and Last Movie Rating — What the Critics Are Saying

As of this writing, Jackass: Best and Last has an approval rating of 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, the highest score ever given to a Jackass movie on the review aggregator website. The Wikipedia-confirmed live score is 88% with a 6.4/10 average, with the Metacritic score sitting at 63 out of 100, below Jackass Forever and Jackass Number Two on that platform.

The split tells you something important: while it holds a high Tomatometer score, many individual critic reviews don’t rate it very highly, mostly landing at 3/5, 6/10, or not-so-impressive grades. It is a film that critics broadly recommend while individually qualifying their enthusiasm with the same caveat: this is less than the best Jackass film, but it is a fitting ending, and a fitting ending for something this culturally significant counts for a great deal.

You leave Jackass: Best and Last believing that they’ll actually miss all this, and that’s enough to make us miss it too.

Jackass Best and Last Rotten Tomatoes Score vs. All Jackass Films

The franchise is no stranger to breaking records, and with its last installment, it did just that, with critics stating that Best and Last is a “victory lap” for the iconic and wild group, and “gives new meaning to the term greatest hits.”

Is Jackass Best and Last Mostly Old Footage or New Stunts?

This is the most important question to answer before you buy a ticket, and the honest answer is: partly, yes.

At one point, Jackass troupe ringleader Johnny Knoxville is jokingly asked how anyone can believe this supposed final chapter is the end, since he said that about the last one, and yet here we are. In Johnny’s defense, he has a solid answer and seems sincere this time about ending the series as we know it, leaning into aging more than ever with the unbelievably reckless stupidity on hand.

The clip show structure is both the film’s greatest flaw and, once you accept it, its greatest asset. The two reviewers whose footage forms the basis of this analysis land on the same conclusion from slightly different angles. One found himself initially blindsided by the format, having expected an all-new experience.

The other found that the structure mirrors Toy Story 5 in ways that are oddly affecting; both films are about millennials watching the things they grew up with age in real time, which turns out to be unexpectedly moving.

There is always a point in these movies where, no matter how funny they are, one hits a wall, as they were always intended to be consumed in 20-ish minute episodes broken up by commercials, not as feature-length films. With that in mind, such a feeling settles in here again, but this time more due to the fact that the brief interjections about the crew having aged or previously unseen footage embrace those highlights for extended stretches.

What saves the clip show structure is the purpose it serves. Without the archival footage, you would not feel the passage of time. Without seeing a teenage Steve-O refusing a stunt that a 50-year-old Steve-O now performs without hesitation, the journey has no arc. Without the Ryan Dunn moments, the emotional reckoning the film is asking you to have does not land. The flashbacks are not filler. They are the context that makes everything else matter.

Best New Stunts in Jackass: Best and Last

The new material is where the film earns its keep as a theatrical release rather than a streaming special. Some of the new stunts include Steve-O getting a painful prostate exam from a robot named Larry, Poopies getting shocked by a shock collar on his penis while attempting to walk across a balance beam, and an “escape room from hell” that punishes everyone’s bodies.

Jackass is nothing if not egalitarian and vanity-free, as evidenced by Knoxville routinely participating in the most dangerous stunts. If you possess the disposition for it, which means you have a high tolerance for suffering and aren’t prone to vomiting, there remains something deeply comforting in checking in one final time with the fellas and noting both how much and how little they’ve changed.

The opening stunt deserves its own mention. Some of the old bits shown in this film include “Self Defense,” Knoxville’s first stunt filmed prior to Jackass. This previously unaired piece, deemed too dangerous or imitable for broadcast in 1998, is the film’s most jaw-dropping sequence, and it sets the tone for everything that follows.

That they managed to get it cleared for a theatrical release in 2026 is remarkable. That it still works as pure spectacle, all these years later, is the whole argument for why Jackass matters.

Jackass Best and Last Performances

Johnny Knoxville

Occasionally, a wistful note enters Knoxville’s commentary as he reflects on how this film will (supposedly, at least) be the team’s last ride, an awareness that, at 55, he might have finally reached capacity, whatever the title of 2022’s Jackass Forever promised.

The moments where he tears up, where he quietly acknowledges that this really is the last time, are the film’s most human passages. He has spent 25 years hurling his body at the world for our entertainment. The vulnerability in admitting it is harder than any stunt.

Steve-O

The argument could be made that Steve-O is the franchise’s most artistically committed performer. The through-line from a young man refusing a toy-car stunt to a 50-year-old man submitting to a robot prostate exam is a complete character arc, and it is, in its own deranged way, a story about growth, acceptance, and the willingness to keep showing up.

It only took 13 minutes for Jackass: Best and Last to make me laugh so hard I cried. Without spoiling too much, the scene in question involves Steve-O, a robot, the robot’s claw-like hand, and Steve-O’s butthole.

Chris Pontius

One of the film’s most unexpectedly moving moments involves Pontius. Knoxville asks him to perform a high jump, naked, naturally, and Pontius simply says okay. No hesitation. No negotiation. His complete and immediate willingness to make a fool of himself for his friends, for the art form, for the audience, contains the secret sauce of the entire Jackass enterprise.

Not for long, when there are still pratfalls to stage and pants to drop and robot prostate exams to supervise. “I’m not in touch with my emotions,” quips his right-hand man, Chris Pontius, when asked if he feels any sadness at saying goodbye, but what binds and lifts all this foolery is the palpable love they have for what they do, and the other people doing it.

Poopies (Sean McInerney)

The new generation’s standout. It would be a mistake to get either too sentimental or too intellectual about a film in which the new material includes a grown man called Poopies attempting to cross a balance beam with an electric shock collar fastened around his penis. He commits fully, earns every laugh, and makes a compelling case that the Jackass spirit, whatever combination of fearlessness, friendship, and genuine creative instinct produces it, does not die with the original cast.

Bam Margera and Ryan Dunn

Neither appears in new footage. Both are honoured with care. Old footage also pays homage to Ryan Dunn, who died in 2011, along with Bam Margera, who had a falling out with the Jackass crew amid the production of the fourth movie.

The Ryan Dunn moments hit hard; this is a film acutely aware of mortality, and the absence of a cast member who did not survive to his fifties is part of what gives the aging-body sequences their particular weight. The Bam Margera archival inclusions feel like a genuine gesture of warmth toward a complicated relationship.

Jackass Best and Last Direction & Filmmaking Review

Producer Spike Jonze directed the opening and ending sequences. His fingerprints are visible in both; they are the most formally composed passages in the film, and they provide the structural bookends that give Best and Last its emotional shape.

The opening, built around Knoxville’s never-before-aired first stunt, works as a thesis statement for the entire franchise. The closing, which mirrors the first Jackass film’s iconic grocery cart sequence, is a genuinely affecting goodbye.

Jeff Tremaine has been the franchise’s director since the beginning, and what he brings to Best and Last is the same thing he has always brought: complete trust in his performers, an instinct for which moments to let breathe, and a genuine love for what these people do.

Because the five films all maintain largely the same collection of knuckleheads both in front of and behind the camera, longtime director Jeff Tremaine is still orchestrating the mayhem alongside fellow producer Spike Jonze; they function as a snapshot of cultural trends and evolving mores, as well as the relative personal growth of their cast.

What Works in Jackass: Best and Last

The opening stunt. One of the most genuinely shocking things this franchise has ever committed to film. The fact that it was held back for 25 years makes it feel like a gift, proof of how committed these men were from the very beginning.

The emotional undercurrent. Best and Last is more honest about mortality and aging than any previous Jackass entry. The accumulation of decades on broken bodies is visible on screen, and the film does not pretend otherwise.

Poopies as the new generation’s standard-bearer. If there is one reason to believe the Jackass spirit survives beyond this film, it is his unhinged commitment in the new sequences.

The Bam and Dunn archival inclusions. Handled with more care than might have been expected, and more effective emotionally for it.

The theatrical experience. Audience reviews call it laugh-out-loud funny and a bittersweet tribute to a legendary crew of lovable idiots. The communal aspect, the theater full of people sharing the gross-outs, the laughs, the collective wincing, is irreplaceable. Stream it later if you must. See it in a cinema first.

Runtime discipline. At 1 hour 32 minutes, it does not overstay its welcome. For a compilation film that could easily have sprawled, the restraint is the right creative call.

What Doesn’t Work in Jackass: Best and Last

The clip show problem for die-hard fans. If you love Jackass too much and have watched everything you can about it, you basically will have seen 50% of the movie already. This is a real limitation for the franchise’s most devoted audience, and the film does not fully resolve it.

The new cast gets less to do. While Poopies stands out, the broader new generation, Rachel Wolfson in particular, is underserved. The girl doesn’t get to do anything literally, but is always framed next to Knoxville in all of the bit intros.

Momentum breaks in the middle. At a certain point, the brief interjections about the crew having aged or previously unseen footage embrace those highlights for extended stretches, showing some of the best, most stupid, and dangerous stunts. Now, much of this is still funny, but it stifles some of the momentum of watching the gang go for it one last time.

This is an epilogue, not a final chapter. Jackass Forever was the proper closing film. Best and Last is the farewell tour. The distinction matters to how you calibrate expectations going in.

Jackass: Best and Last Pros & Cons

✓ Pros

• Record-setting Rotten Tomatoes score — 88% critics, 85% audience
• The opening stunt is franchise-best levels of extraordinary
• Genuinely emotional in unexpected ways — aging, loss, friendship
• Bam Margera and Ryan Dunn given respectful archival presence
• Poopies emerges as a convincing new-generation centrepiece
• Spike Jonze’s bookend sequences give the film structural grace
• 92-minute runtime means it earns every minute
• The theatrical experience is irreplaceable

✗ Cons

• 40% clip show structure will disappoint franchise veterans
• Rachel Wolfson and the new cast are significantly underused
• Mid-section loses momentum during extended archival stretches
• Metacritic score of 63 reflects individual critic ambivalence beneath the positive consensus
• Functions more as an epilogue than a true final film — that was Jackass Forever

Jackass: Best and Last Box Office Collection

Jackass: Best and Last opened in 2,800 theaters with projections around $10 million for its opening weekend, competing against Toy Story 5 and Supergirl. For a franchise that has grossed over $550 million across its theatrical releases, the more modest opening reflects the reality of the film’s structure, a greatest hits compilation draws a different audience than an all-new event film. It is tracking as a performer for its genre and budget class, not a blockbuster.

Is Jackass: Best and Last Really the Final Movie?

At one point, Knoxville is jokingly asked how anyone can believe this supposed final chapter is the end, since he said that about the last one, and yet here we are. In Johnny’s defense, he has a solid answer. The physical reality of what this franchise requires is the most credible argument for finality. Concussions literally hit different in your fifties.

The appeal of Jackass has always combined giddy hilarity with some degree of aghast concern for the performers’ well-being, but you don’t want the latter overtaking the former.

Knoxville has said that during a stunt in Jackass Forever, he got a broken rib, a broken wrist, a concussion, and a brain hemorrhage, and that he cannot do any stunts that can lead to a concussion anymore. That is not a career-limiting statement. That is a medical statement. This feels like the end because the bodies have made the decision that the filmmakers cannot.

Jackass: Best and Last Age Rating, Suitable for Kids?

No. The film is rated R for graphic nudity, extremely dangerous stunts, crude material throughout, pervasive language, and sexual material. It is not suitable for children or anyone with a low tolerance for bodily humor, real physical injury, or the kind of transgressive comedy that defines the franchise. For adults who know what Jackass is and have chosen to watch it, the rating is accurate, and the content delivers exactly what it advertises.

Where to Watch Jackass: Best and Last

Jackass: Best and Last is currently in wide theatrical release from Paramount Pictures. No streaming date has been announced. Given the film’s explicitly theatrical-experience framing and the genuine communal dimension that Jackass films provide in a full cinema, a theatrical viewing is strongly recommended over waiting for home release.

Jackass: Best and Last Final Verdict

This feels like your pals from high school coming to say goodbye. Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it’s somebody else getting punched in the nuts.

That is the most accurate single-sentence summary of Jackass: Best and Last that exists. It is not a great film by the franchise’s own standards. It is, however, a genuine and affecting goodbye to something that mattered more than anyone expected it to, a TV prank show that turned out to be about friendship, courage, and a peculiar kind of artistic commitment that is impossible to replicate.

Jackass gave us 25 years of men willing to humiliate, injure, and degrade themselves for our entertainment, and somehow emerged as one of the most sincere expressions of male friendship in popular culture. Best and Last honours that, even when it leans too hard on the archive, even when the momentum sags, even when you have seen that stunt before. Go see it in a theater. Let yourself feel it.

Jackass: Forever. Jackass: Best and Last. 2000 — 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. Is Jackass: Best and Last the last movie?

Ans. That is the intention. Knoxville has confirmed this will be the last Jackass film, and that this movie will not have a .5 sequel. The physical toll on the original cast, particularly Knoxville’s brain hemorrhage during Jackass Forever, gives this finality more credibility than previous send-off statements.

Q. Which Jackass movie is rated the best?

Ans. Jackass: Best and Last has broken the franchise record on Rotten Tomatoes with an 88% critics’ score, the highest in franchise history, surpassing Jackass Forever’s 86%. On Metacritic, however, Jackass Forever and Jackass Number Two rank higher. Most long-term fans consider Jackass Forever or Jackass 3D the strongest all-new entries, with Best and Last occupying a category of its own as a valedictory compilation.

Q. Is the new Jackass movie good?

Ans. Yes, with qualifications that depend on your existing relationship with the franchise. If you are a long-time fan who knows the back catalogue well, the clip show elements will be familiar territory. If you are a casual fan or returning viewer, this is an excellent entry point that doubles as a proper farewell. Critics describe it as a proper send-off full of gleeful mayhem and a bit of nostalgia.

Q. What is the best and last Jackass?

Ans. Jackass: Best and Last is the fifth and final main Jackass film, directed by Jeff Tremaine and released in theaters on June 26, 2026. It combines new stunts filmed in early 2026 with archival clips and never-before-seen footage from across the franchise’s 25-year history.

Q. Who is in the Jackass: Best and Last cast?

Ans. The film brings back the full core cast: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Wee Man, Preston Lacy, Dave England, and Danger Ehren from the original lineup, alongside new generation members Poopies, Zach Holmes, Jasper Dolphin, Rachel Wolfson, and Dark Shark. Bam Margera and Ryan Dunn appear in archival footage. Celebrity appearances include Brad Pitt and Paul Walter Hauser.

Q. Which Jackass movie was the most successful at the box office?

Ans. The Jackass film franchise has grossed over $550 million across its theatrical releases. Jackass 3D in 2010 was the franchise’s biggest individual box office performer, benefiting from the premium 3D ticket pricing that dominated that era.

Q. Is there going to be another Jackass movie after Best and Last?

Ans. Not according to Knoxville, who has stated this is the natural place to end, and has confirmed there will be no .5 version. The physical realities of the cast being in their fifties, combined with Knoxville’s medical history from Jackass Forever, make this the most credible retirement claim the franchise has made.

Jackass: Best and Last is now in wide theatrical release from Paramount Pictures.

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