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Jackass: Best and Last Is the Team’s Final Film

Johnny Knoxville’s 2022 bull injury prompted the group to stop large stunts, presenting the film as a deliberate farewell.

Overview

  • The film opens in theaters Friday, June 26, and Knoxville and producers have announced it is the official final Jackass movie.
  • Best and Last is built roughly half from new stunts and half from archival or previously unseen footage, including a 1998 clip of Knoxville shooting himself while wearing a Kevlar vest.
  • Knoxville largely takes a back-seat in new set pieces after the 2022 bull stunt that caused a concussion, brain hemorrhage and a lengthy recovery, which he and teammates cite as the key reason to stop doing large-scale stunts.
  • Early reviews call the film a bittersweet, camaraderie-driven sendoff, and Rotten Tomatoes registered about a 90% critics’ score in initial aggregations.
  • The movie includes archival appearances by Bam Margera and the late Ryan Dunn, adds new performers and a voiced robot named Larry, and frames the franchise’s legacy as both nostalgic and physically costly as its principals age.