Jackass: Best and Last (2026) Review: A Bruised Victory Lap

Is Jackass: Best and Last worth watching?

Yes, with reservations. Jackass: Best and Last is a fitting, frequently hilarious farewell for anyone who has followed the crew this far, and it is warmer than a film this deliberately stupid has any right to be. The pain is still real and the laughs still come from the gut, but the real subject this time is friendship among men who have spent more than two decades hurting themselves together. The reservation is repetition: this deep into the series, several set pieces feel like variations on bits the franchise has already done better.

What is Jackass: Best and Last about?

Billed as the crew’s final ride, Jackass: Best and Last is the fifth Jackass feature and follows the formula that has defined the series since it began on television: a loose string of stunts, pranks and physical-comedy set pieces with no plot to speak of. Johnny Knoxville leads the original lineup, including Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Jason “Wee Man” Acuña, Dave England and Ehren McGhehey, and a handful of newer recruits are folded into the chaos alongside them.

Longtime series director Jeff Tremaine is back behind the camera. It is an American production in English and runs a brisk 92 minutes.

Nostalgia with its stomach intact

The worry with any farewell is that it turns into a clip show or a eulogy. Best and Last avoids both. It leans into nostalgia, and the crew’s shared history is visible in every reaction shot, but it never loses its appetite for pain. The funniest sequences still work the way the best Jackass bits always have: a simple, terrible idea, a long build-up of dread, and a payoff that makes the audience recoil and laugh in the same breath.

What gives this film its particular flavour is age. Watching middle-aged men commit to the same punishing nonsense they attempted as young daredevils is funnier, and occasionally more poignant, than it should be. Tremaine lets the camera linger on the crew watching each other, and their laughter, sympathy and horror are often the best part of a stunt.

The real joke is friendship

Beneath the crotch shots and the gross-out gags, the Jackass films have always been about a gang of friends egging each other on, and this one makes that explicit. Compared with Jackass Forever, the 2022 comeback, it is scrappier and more openly sentimental, closer to a reunion than a relaunch. Knoxville remains a natural ringmaster, Steve-O and Pontius are as game as ever, and the newer faces fit in without distracting from the veterans’ goodbye.

The film is at its best when that sentiment stays light, and the affection shows in the way the men look after one another between hits and in how readily they turn a disaster into a group joke.

Where the formula shows its age

The film’s main weakness is one it cannot really escape. After five features and years of television, some sketches play as familiar riffs on earlier gags rather than new ideas, and the weaker bits lean on escalation where the best ones had invention. The shapelessness that makes the series feel spontaneous also means the running order has no real build, so the film sometimes simply stops rather than peaking.

Who should watch Jackass: Best and Last?

It is made for existing fans, who will find the farewell framing genuinely touching as well as painfully funny. Newcomers can follow it easily, since there is no plot, but Jackass Forever is the stronger entry point. At 92 minutes it moves fast. Expect nudity, graphic bodily humour, crude language and real injuries; it is strictly for adults with strong stomachs, and none of it should be imitated.

For more comedy built around physical risk:

• The Fall Guy, a scripted action comedy that also celebrates the people who get hurt for our entertainment.
• Deadpool, for irreverent, bodily, gleefully juvenile humour in a superhero frame.

Browse more in our comedy section.

The verdict

Jackass: Best and Last is not the series’ sharpest film, but it may be its most affectionate: a painful, silly, oddly moving goodbye from a crew that turned self-inflicted injury into a kind of friendship. Familiar bits and a shapeless structure hold it back, yet fans will leave laughing and a little wistful.