Jackass: Best and Last review: a bruised, wistful goodbye to the stunt gang

Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O say goodbye to three decades of gross-out stunts in Jackass: Best and Last, which launched in UK and US cinemas on June 26, 2026, as the franchise’s supposedly final chapter.

TL;DR

• The fifth and reportedly last mainline Jackass film mixes archive highlights with new stunts filmed earlier this year.
• The BBFC has rated the movie 18, and it opened wide in UK cinemas on June 26, 2026.
• It holds an 88% Rotten Tomatoes score, the best-reviewed entry in the franchise’s history.
• Its $8.4 million (£6.6 million) domestic opening weekend was the lowest of any Jackass movie to date.

What actually happens in the film

Jackass: Best and Last is directed by Jeff Tremaine, who has directed every theatrical entry in the series, and produced alongside Spike Jonze, Knoxville and Shanna Zablow Newton. Tremaine and his crew built the film as a compilation, weaving new bits in with 25 years of highlights and previously unseen footage.

Most of the Jackass Forever line-up returns, including Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Wee Man, Preston Lacy, Dave England and Danger Ehren, alongside newer members Poopies, Zach Holmes, Jasper Dolphin and Rachel Wolfson. Bam Margera, fired during production of the previous film, appears only through archive clips, according to Wikipedia’s account of the production. Late castmate Ryan Dunn, who died in 2011, also turns up in older footage.

Knoxville has said this will be the last theatrical Jackass film, telling press it felt like the right point to stop. The finished cut runs 92 minutes.

Does the farewell actually land?

Critics have been unexpectedly generous. Guy Lodge, reviewing for Variety, argued the film finds real poignancy in watching the cast’s ageing, scarred bodies take yet another beating, even as the best jokes remain the simple ones. The Associated Press’s Mark Kennedy was cooler, judging it a clip-heavy send-off for a franchise that ran out of new ideas rather than energy.

That split is roughly reflected in the aggregate scores below.

Metric	Score	Source
Rotten Tomatoes	88% (68 critics)	Source: Rotten Tomatoes
Metacritic	63/100	Source: Metacritic, 29 critics
CinemaScore	A-	Source: CinemaScore audience poll

The Rotten Tomatoes figure is the highest of any film in the series, ahead of Jackass Forever‘s 86%, according to a box-office breakdown from Collider. One UK critic at DVDfever was more mixed, scoring the film 6/10 and noting that only around two-fifths of the runtime is genuinely new material.

A soft finish at the box office

Reviews aside, ticket sales tell a rougher story. The film opened to $8.4 million domestically over its June 26–28 weekend, the weakest debut in the franchise’s history, according to SlashFilm. International markets added a further $1.9 million from 19 territories, bringing the worldwide opening to $10.3 million.

For comparison, Jackass Forever opened to $23 million domestically in 2022, while Jackass 3D set the franchise record with a $50.3 million debut in 2010. Made on a reported $10 million budget, Best and Last had already covered its production costs by the end of its opening weekend, though industry break-even estimates put the true target closer to $25 million worldwide once marketing costs are factored in, per Koimoi.

The film opened the same weekend as Focus Features’ horror hit Obsession, which continued to outperform newer releases in its seventh week of release.

UK cinema release, rating and where to watch

Jackass: Best and Last opened in UK cinemas on June 26, 2026, the same day as its US debut, with a special preview screening held at BFI IMAX in London on June 15. The BBFC classified the film 18, citing graphic nudity, extremely dangerous stunts and pervasive strong language.

UK audiences hoping for something gentler should look elsewhere; this is not a rerun of milder franchise entries like Masters of the Universe, which Screen & Story reviewed earlier this month, or the effects-driven spectacle of Mortal Kombat II, covered here.

Rating: 6 out of 10

The verdict

Jackass: Best and Last is, by its own design, more clip show than fresh statement, and it never pretends otherwise. What holds it together is the visible toll the stunts have taken on a cast now well into middle age, which gives even the silliest bits a strange, unexpected weight. Whether that’s worth a full-price cinema ticket, rather than a wait for streaming, depends on how much goodwill you’re carrying in for the gang after 25 years.

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Reported from publicly available interviews and verified press sources. Last reviewed July 1, 2026.