A fitting, funny, and unexpectedly sentimental farewell to a franchise built on pain, friendship, and reckless commitment. It may feel partly like a greatest-hits coda, but the new bits, archival material, and end-of-an-era emotion give it real value for fans.
Jackass: Best and Last
Where to watch: Buy
Movie · Action · Comedy
Thu · 1h 32m
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius
Overview
The fifth and final installment to Jackass franchise where the crew go on one last insane crusade.
Director
Jeff Tremaine
Cast
Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius
Curator Review
Verdict
A fitting, funny, and unexpectedly sentimental farewell to a franchise built on pain, friendship, and reckless commitment. It may feel partly like a greatest-hits coda, but the new bits, archival material, and end-of-an-era emotion give it real value for fans.
Best for
Jackass fans who want a final goodbye
Viewers who like gross-out comedy with a nostalgic streak
People interested in stunt-based physical comedy and prank filmmaking
Audiences who appreciate friendship-as-the-point-of-the-joke
Skip if
You dislike crude bodily-harm humor
You want a tightly structured narrative film
You’ve never enjoyed the franchise’s mix of stupidity and tenderness
You prefer fresh, fully original material over a retrospective finale
Overview
This is less a pure sequel than a farewell montage with enough new material to justify the sendoff. The franchise’s familiar formula is still here: dares, injuries, humiliation, and the kind of commitment to a bit that borders on devotion. But age changes the texture. What once felt like anarchic youth culture now plays like a reunion with old friends who have survived their own legend.
Worth noting
The result is funny in the expected ways and moving in the unexpected ones. The archival footage and callbacks deepen the sense of history, while the new stunts remind you that the crew still knows how to turn stupidity into spectacle. It can feel uneven and a little self-mythologizing, but that’s part of the point: this is a monument to a very specific kind of movie-making, one that treats pain as performance and friendship as the punchline beneath the punchline.
Bottom line
If you’ve ever been on board with the franchise, this is an easy recommendation. If you haven’t, this won’t convert you, but it does offer a surprisingly warm final chapter for a group that built its identity on being anything but warm.
Top Letterboxd reviews
Joe A (4★) · 1816 likes
Wept a good amount, mostly because beneath the chaos of shoving objects up one’s rectum and being pummeled by a bull, there exists a poignant reminder that even the people who seemed invincible eventually have to say goodbye. Time is sometimes the cruelest prank, but it’s a lot easier to endure with a good friend.
davidehrlich (3★) · 1058 likes
Once upon a time, an aspiring actor who self-identified as Johnny Knoxville — birth name Philip John Clapp — decided to shoot himself in the chest with a .38-caliber revolver with nothing besides a cheap bulletproof vest and a short stack of porno magazines for protection. He pitched that vital scientific experiment to several publications as a potential story, but only Jeff Tremaine of the skateboarding rag “Big Brother” gave it the green light; Tremaine even suggested that Knoxville film
Brandon Streussnig · 747 likes
“The producers wish to thank Buster Keaton” 🖤 Feels a little superfluous, almost like a .5 to Forever and I wish Rachel had literally anything to do here but whatever, I got choked up. Love these guys, have loved growing old with them.
Kit Lazer (3★) · 724 likes
End of an era. Kids don’t ride grocery carts off of cliffs anymore. It’s these damn phones.