Opening on never-aired footage of Knoxville shooting himself in the chest, and walking away unscathed, Tremaine frequently makes formal use of the ravages of time, showing his cast, now in their mid-50s, with the scars and tattoos from previous movies still visible on their wrinkling skin. Their speech is slower and sometimes slurred, making the toll of the last four movies and the TV series impossible to shake. It’s in seeing the evolution of the “Poo Cocktail” that audiences truly feel the weight of 25 years. But without someone willing to top it, the film hits awkward anticlimaxes, with the Best stunts feeling like the padding these guys so desperately needed over the years.
Thankfully, Tremaine and his returning company get creative and work their age into the stunts. The film’s most revolting moments bring the franchise’s fecal fixation into middle age with the guys chugging colonoscopy prep fluid before a particularly unpleasant game of Twister. “This is what Jackass looks like at 50,” Tremaine tells Knoxville after a robot rectal exam. It took 25 years, but Jackass has finally matched The Tom Green Cancer Special in using extreme comedy for cancer awareness. With head trauma now off the table thanks to Knoxville’s run-in with the bull in Jackass Forever, he’s mostly relegated to master of ceremonies, playing Jigsaw to poor Ehren McGhehy, who is more often than not strung up and tased. One cartoonishly evil device in “The Escape Room From Hell” looks like something out of the ACME catalog, placing Knoxville in league with Bugs Bunny as one of cinema’s great stinkers.
The heavier stunts are passed on to the new class, primarily Sean “Poopies” McInerney, who stands out as the film’s MVP. The rest of the Jackass Forever holdovers fare worse—or better, depending on whether it’s preferable to perform a stunt or laugh from the sidelines. Zach Holmes, or, more specifically, Zach Holmes’ butt, becomes another vomit-inducing implement; Rachel Wolfson gets farted on once. But it’s Mr. Poopies who gets the worst of it, enduring a grotesque cosmetic procedure and a shock collar to the penis in two of the film’s squirmiest scenes.
While the mix of old and new can be a blessing and a curse, Knoxville and the gang have earned the victory lap. They still hold a genuine connection with their audience, which will again dab tears from their eyes upon seeing Bam Margera and the late Ryan Dunn back on the big screen. Even with Dunn’s tragic death hanging over the series, Best And Last doesn’t linger on the tragedy but focuses on the joy of his life, revisiting the time he put a toy car up his ass. And segments like that still have the juice after all these years. Most of the Best segments do. There’s a lot of power in those grainy video clips, unlocking powerful waves of nostalgia in the millennial psyche while retaining the core elements of the Jackass experience: tension and release. The anticipation of a smack in the nuts, and the catharsis of Knoxville’s laughter as he puts his arm around the friend he maimed. This is still male friendship, and it’s never looked more stupid.
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Wee Man, Dave England, Danger Ehren, Preston Lacy, Rachel Wolfson, Jasper Dolphin, Dark Shark, Poopies, Zach Holmes
Release Date: June 26, 2026
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