Jackass: Best and Last First Reviews: A Proper Send-Off Full of Gleeful Mayhem and A Bit of Nostalgia

The fifth and maybe final feature-length installment of the Jackass franchise barrels into theaters this weekend, and the first reviews are online and mostly celebratory. Jackass: Best and Last is partly a best-of clip show highlighting favorite stunts and gags from the original series and previous movies, but there’s also a lot of new content to satisfy diehard fans and newcomers alike. What is most shocking of all, however, is not how cringe-inducing the bits are but how emotional this sequel is for all involved, including the audience.

Here’s what critics are saying about Jackass: Best and Last:

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Is this really the best one?

Not the series’ high point but nonetheless a deliriously puerile swan song for Johnny Knoxville and his merry band of mischief-makers.
— Nick Schager, The Daily Beast

Jackass: Best and Last is a worthy and satisfying resting point, but it falls slightly short of being the franchise’s superlative installment (that would be Jackass Number Two).
— Todd Gilchrist, TheWrap

Jackass: Best and Last doesn’t shy away from the idea that the gang’s riskiest, most physically demanding stunts are behind it.
— Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times

Far from the best Jackass.
— Matt Schimkowitz, AV Club

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Does it have enough fresh material?

For those worried about the movie playing too much like a retrospective, though, the new material is plentiful.
— Liz Shannon Miller, Consequence

There are myriad new sequences that are a little less physically demanding on the cast but still incredibly agonising or humiliating.
— Tim Grierson, Screen International

Yes, there’s a lot of stuff in here you already know. But there’s a couple of new bangers in there as well… The problem is there’s not enough original content.
— Matt Singer, ScreenCrush

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How are the new stunts?

The new ones are mostly solid enough to stand beside the old ones.
— Guy Lodge, Variety

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.
— Matt Schimkowitz, AV Club

The new stunts may not be as inspired, but the enthusiasm with which Knoxville’s team embrace these sophomoric challenges remains charming and hilarious.
— Tim Grierson, Screen International

Though Jackass: Best and Last doesn’t produce a classic gem à la Knoxville attending a Black male strip club disguised as his bad grandpa alter ego (which is replayed here), it maintains the series’ go-for-broke spirit right to the end.
— Nick Schager, The Daily Beast

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Are there any disappointing bits?

An overlong bit in which game guest star Paul Walter Hauser is strapped down and threatened with giving one of the crew a rim job.
— Guy Lodge, Variety

The Jamiroquai-inspired opening sequence, usually a glorious and expensive spectacle of “I can’t believe a Hollywood studio paid for this” stupidity, is so limp compared to the Godzilla intro from Jackass Forever that it hurt me just to watch — and not in the way I wanted it to.
— David Ehrlich, IndieWire

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Will we still enjoy the old stuff?

The classic pranks are still funny, of course. I will never not laugh at Johnny Knoxville terrorizing uptight golfers with an airhorn.
— Matt Singer, ScreenCrush

Old stunts like the Poo Cocktail Supreme from 2010’s Jackass 3D, in which Steve-O gets drenched in a flying port-a-potty, still impress with their sheer elaborate bravado.
— Guy Lodge, Variety

The new looks at standout sequences, such as Knoxville’s scary confrontation with a raging bull from Jackass Forever, prove the series’ highlights have lost none of their gasp-inducing shock.
— Tim Grierson, Screen International

Jackass diehards have already committed this stuff to memory, but the best eulogies hinge on the kinds of stories that only get better every time you hear them.
— David Ehrlich, IndieWire

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Is this installment mostly for longtime fans?

Jackass: Best and Last [is] particularly well-suited to newcomers to the franchise, as it really does encompass a great deal of its history, with plenty of highlights to showcase the full range of insane stunts executed over the years.
— Liz Shannon Miller, Consequence

Best and Last won’t likely convert longtime critics, wherever those unhappy individuals may exist.
— Todd Gilchrist, TheWrap

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Is it funny?

It only took 13 minutes for Jackass: Best and Last to make me laugh so hard I cried.
— Matt Singer, ScreenCrush

There’s a moment toward the end where people on set are genuinely concerned that “Danger Ehren” McGhehey might have been electrocuted to death. It goes without saying that it’s one of the funniest parts of the film.
— David Ehrlich, IndieWire

There are, admittedly, some moments in which the conceptual ideas are actually amusing.
— Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter

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Is it more sentimental than usual?

This may be the first time Jackass induces tears that aren’t either from laughter or disgust.
— Todd Gilchrist, TheWrap

The stars of these movies have always been vulnerable; in Best and Last, their pain is as much emotional as it is physical.
— Matt Singer, ScreenCrush

Jackass: Best and Last has a melancholic awareness of its own mortality. Really.
— Sophie Monks Kaufman, Time Out

There are multiple moments where Knoxville and the gang get genuinely emotional about the end of an era, but they never get too bogged down in sentiment.
— Liz Shannon Miller, Consequence

You leave Jackass: Best and Last believing that they’ll actually miss all this, and that’s enough to make us miss it too.
— Guy Lodge, Variety

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Which of the gang rules this one?

Steve-O, who finally fulfills his dream of being the MVP of a Jackass movie.
— David Ehrlich, IndieWire

Steve-O, if you ever read this I just want you to know: You are, without question, Jackass: Best and Last’s MVP. Thank you for your sacrifices for your art. They were not in vain.
— Matt Singer, ScreenCrush

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Does it really feel like the end of the franchise?

Best and Last has the feel of a proper send-off.
— Tim Grierson, Screen International

Knoxville behaving cautiously on camera definitely speaks to this being the right time for the series to wrap things up.
— Liz Shannon Miller, Consequence

The odds that this is truly the final entry feel slim.
— Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter

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Jackass: Best and Last opens in theaters June 26, 2026. Get your tickets here.

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