Jackass: Best – In what’s framed as Jackass’s last run, Steve-O undergoes a prostate exam performed by a wisecracking robot, the crew downs a drug to prepare for a colonoscopy, and a Twister game turns into a scatological timebomb. The film lands as part fresh set pieces, par
Steve-O submits to a prostate exam in Jackass: Best and Last. and it’s not the kind of moment you can watch with anything like comfort. The setting is absurd on purpose—performed by a wisecracking robot—but the premise is pure gross-out territory. the sort of stunt that explains why the series has always treated discomfort like a punchline.
Not long after, the crew leans into the digestive-system chaos again. They ingest the drug used to flush out digestive systems before a colonoscopy. then try to play Twister while something grim and scatological looms in the background. Cameraman Lance Bangs. as always. is fighting to contain his retching—an ongoing. public struggle to stay upright while the film keeps escalating.
This is. in every practical sense. Jackass doing what it does: rectal probing. shock laughs. and bodies pushing past the line where most comedy would stop. The show’s most infamous moments have always lived in that spirit. Back in 2011. Ryan Dunn—who died in 2011—inserted a toy car into himself before going in for an X-ray. and the crew’s willingness to go there never felt like an accident of tone. It felt like identity.
Still, there’s a difference in how Best and Last lands: it’s treated as a finale.
The movie’s sense of finality doesn’t arrive out of nowhere. Even Jackass 3-D in 2010 used end-credits nostalgia—Weezer’s song “Memories” blasting over footage of the guys across the years. In 2022’s Jackass Forever, the tone was similarly valedictory, as if the franchise had already started whispering goodbye.
In Best and Last, that idea becomes part of the comedy itself. Someone teases ringleader Johnny Knoxville about whether the audience can really believe him about this being the last movie, given that he’s said that sort of thing before.
Knoxville’s not trying to undercut the joke. His sincerity keeps showing up, including moments where his voice breaks while he talks about wrapping up the series. What makes the final-status claim feel most convincing isn’t a speech or a dramatic cue, though. It’s the structure.
Jackass: Best and Last doesn’t contain a full feature’s worth of entirely new stunts and pranks—at least. not quite. The film seems to understand that at the guys’ ages. trying to build an entire 90-minute run of brand-new material could become genuinely life-endangering. The result is closer to a compilation film than any of the previous entries.
It functions in a way that will feel familiar to anyone who’s seen other “hits” packages: like those Looney Tunes movies where new animated segments wrap around excerpts from classic shorts. or like a greatest hits album that comes packaged with a second disc of new songs and rarities. There are new pieces. but there’s also a deliberate return to the earlier days—what the franchise already proved it could do.
And it’s not as if the new cast steps in to take over. Among the new recruits from the previous film. only the guy nicknamed “Poopies” actually does much on camera. including getting a ridiculous amount of lip filler injected as a joke. Rachel Wolfson and Jasper Dolphin—both charming in Jackass Forever—seem to be in the mix more for moral support than for real stunt work. at least nothing that makes the final cut.
Some of the footage that isn’t recent still hasn’t been seen by most audiences. The film reaches back to the early days of the show for segments MTV wouldn’t allow them to air. One bit has Knoxville in a prison jumpsuit and handcuffs, then visiting a hardware store to shop for a hacksaw.
The movie also opens with what feels like a pre-MTV Knoxville origin story. It’s a brief Jackass: Origins-style segment involving a bulletproof vest. Even knowing the subject survives for at least another quarter-century. it still plays as tense—because the whole point is to watch someone act like consequence is optional.
For hardcore fans, there’s a tradeoff. A chunk of Best and Last is at least one-third previously seen footage. which means the balance between old and new can’t fully satisfy people who came specifically for fresh shocks. There’s also the risk of newer bits getting swallowed when they’re placed beside classics.
One new sequence—the escape room from hell—does feel like it peters out prematurely, never quite reaching the full payoff it’s aiming for as a slapstick variation on Saw.
Still, watching a Jackass movie in a crowd is its own kind of jolt. The timing lands differently when other people are reacting in real time. and Knoxville still has the core instinct that made him central to the franchise: the willingness to get into the ring with a furious bull. then go back when he doesn’t quite get the shot he wants.
And before the film closes. Team Jackass makes its message clear in the only language it’s ever trusted—gross-out comedy as physical commitment. After everything—from older stunts made famous to the latest prostate exam performed by a wisecracking robot—Jackass: Best and Last carries itself like a claim of ownership. Not just of shock. but of the particular kind of communal joy that has always lived in these movies. even when they’re at their most disgusting.
It’s especially notable in the wake of something like the sixth Scary Movie. which made a big fuss over its willingness to go too far—meaning. mostly. making dumb jokes about gay or trans people. Whatever people think of the Jackass franchise’s extremes. the crew’s approach here is different: they genuinely put themselves in physical danger for the comedy. Even at its grossest, the films feel built around acceptance and shared laughter instead of self-satisfaction over crossing lines.
Before they go, Team Jackass leaves one last impression: kings of horror comedy, still willing to step into the mess—then grin as the cameras roll.
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