#REVIEW: “JACKASS: BEST AND LAST”

Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong

“Hi I’m Johnny Knoxville, welcome to Jackass” words that we first heard 26 years ago, and no one then could’ve predicted that these words would’ve changed the lives of a generation for better, worse, or indifferently – but they certainly changed the world. Since the inception of the series, we’ve had three seasons of the show, two spin-off shows, five feature films, “.5” versions of the film, a video game, and a mobile game about a collection of dudes who enjoyed doing the dumbest stuff imaginable and whacking each other in their respective “junk”. Did Jackass do anything new, who knows? But did it shape a generation of viewers and allow people to do some of the dumbest things imaginable, despite the multitude of warnings to not “try this at home”? Yes.

Now as the main cast are all closing-in on their fifties, we take a look at the Best of Jackass and the newest of Jackass, which despite saying multiple times over and over, again appears to truly be the final Jackass. So collect your friends, the same friends who know you better than anyone, not the public version of you and succumb to Jackass: Best and Last!

Is there a plot to Jackass? In short – no. It is a compilation of the dumbest things one can possibly do/have done to them and a group of friends just screwing around having a good time. Best and Last shows us the first ‘stunt’ the guys ever did, which was Johnny Knoxville putting on a bulletproof vest, stuffing a stack of hustler magazines underneath them to shoot himself point blank to see what happens. It is so incredibly stupid, and arguably one of the dumber things they’ve ever done – but it birthed the phenomenon that is Jackass. Through a compilation of what was before, showing the evolution of the show from Knoxville dressing up as a LA County prisoner and going into a hardware store and asking for a hacksaw to cut off his handcuffs (which barred MTV from supposedly shooting in North LA for a decade) to crotch shots, to seeing where Jackass is at 50 by having their new robot companion give Steve-O a prostate exam. Jackass is timeless and ageless – and the final installment is a poignant funeral while simultaneously being a celebration of 26 years of friendship, centered around the dumbest things you and your friends could ever do.

While Jackass Forever introduced some new cast members, Best and Last focuses on Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Dave England, Preston Lacy, Ehren McGhehey, and Chris Pontius – the original Jackass crew, while including some archival footage of Bam Margera and Ryan Dunn and some of the great moments and dumb things they were involved in their legacies on Jackass. While the show has moved on from hitting each other in the nuts, and taking a dump in the display toilet at a hardware store to Poop Cocktail Supreme (you don’t want to know) and antagonizing bulls to the point of receiving concussions, it gets crazier and dumber but this is why we’ll always remember the great antics, some classics will always be there like Rental Car Smash Up Derby, Roller Skates and the Butt X-Ray all the way to The Escape Room from Hell, Jackass may have ended its production, but the everlasting impact and movement it created will live on forever.

Jackass: Best and Last is a sobering emphasis on how much friendship means, and how far we go for our best friends. We laugh at each other’s pain, we are there for the hard times, and at the end of the day we’re all part of the Jackass family. There is so much love and respect between this crew of sheerly insane people. And they captured their madness and shared it with an audience when we needed it most – Jackass has always been there to provide that nuch- needed laugh, so while they may not be making any new stunts, nor should we try to imitate any of the stunts they’ve done, let’s all collectively thank the Jackass family and send them into their well-deserved sunset with some Ibuprofen and ice packs.

Paramount Pictures Canada release JACKASS: BEST AND LAST in theatres on Friday, June 26, 2026.