Jackass: Best and Last arrives in UK cinemas on June 26, 2026 from Paramount Pictures.
Synopsis
Johnny Knoxville and the gang return for one final fling at the big screen. Featuring all-new stunts and stupidity along with the greatest hits and biggest laughs from the past, jackass: best and last is a joyously raucous celebration of all the mischievous camaraderie that you’ve come to love and expect from these idiots over the past 25 years. So, grab your dumb little buddies, raise your glasses, and come experience the cinematic event that promises to be the last time you’ll ever laugh this hard in a theatre.
Review
When Jackass first dropped onto MTV in the early 2000s, nobody could have predicted that a group of skateboarding outcasts causing self-inflicted trauma on each other would become such a cultural phenomenon. Yet, here we are nearly three decades later, and the franchise is still kicking, screaming, and covered in things we probably shouldn’t mention in polite conversation.
Jackass Best and Last acts as a chaotic, brilliant cocktail mix between brand-new, eye squinting pranks, classic throwbacks to their best work, and never-before-seen ‘pulled from the vault’ footage, all held together by surprisingly candid, introspective interviews with the remaining team. For longtime fans, it is a deep dive into nostalgia, pain, and enduring friendship.
Make no mistake about it: Jackass is still Jackass. If you walk into the cinema expecting the crew to have suddenly matured or found a sense of refined dignity in their later years, you are going to be deeply disappointed. Do not expect anything less than pure, unadulterated filth that put Jackass on the map in the first place! It is gross, it is utterly disgusting, and it is funny as hell.
The physical comedy hits with the same force it did twenty years ago, and the theatrical experience proves that the franchise hasn’t lost its edge. At our screening, a few people physically stood up and walked out during one of the more intense, stomach-turning segments. Honestly? Watching them flee the theater only made me laugh harder. If you don’t have the stomach for a Jackass movie by this point in pop culture history, that is entirely on you. The film pushes boundaries precisely because that is what this franchise was born to do.
What places Best and Last above a standard clip-show or a simple cash-grab is its interviews and look back. Bringing never-before-seen footage provides nostalgia to hardcore fans, showing up Johnnys first recorded stunt, their terribly planning and seeing them looking so young too! Meanwhile, the sit-down interviews give the film some heart. Hearing Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, and the rest of the gang dissect their worst injuries, their personal highs and lows, and what it means to grow old while remaining professional stunt idiots adds a layer to them about how far they’ve come and how sad they are to admit they can’t do this stuff anymore.
But if you look past the fractures, the concussions, and the sheer absurdity of their work, there is this sweet vulnerability at the center of this movie. There is something bizarrely heartwarming about the realization that, after 28 years, these friends are still coming together just to fuck each other up. It is a very weird, highly unconventional way to express love, but their bond is undeniable. Beneath the chaos lies a lifetime of shared trauma, survival, and deep-seated loyalty. They aren’t just a stunt crew; they are a dysfunction family, and that emotional core gives Best and Last a surprisingly poignant punch.
Verdict
Ultimately, Jackass: Best and Last is a perfect, nostalgic, and stomach-churning send-off to a historic era of pranks and stupid stunts entertainment. Be sure to go and see it if you grew up with Jackass and you too are just getting a little bit older than you wish you were.
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