Mixing greatest-hits clips with some new, cheerfully stupid stunts, this (supposedly) final outing for Johnny Knoxville and the gang is oddly poignant as it reluctantly accepts middle age.
By Guy Lodge
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Courtesy of Paramount Pictures Who ever imagined, back when we were all younger and less weary, that we’d be getting a new “Jackass” film in the year 2026? When the first big-screen spinoff of this quintessentially turn-of-the-millennium franchise hit screens in 2002, you wouldn’t have counted on Johnny Knoxville even living past 30 — much less still submitting, decades later, to raging bulls and grievous genital peril in the name of comedy. To be fair, he and the whole Jackass gang probably wouldn’t have done, either. Which is partly what gives “Jackass: Best and Last,” the extreme slapstick troupe’s sixth and officially final film, its charm: Every one of the group’s stupid, juvenile stunts is underpinned by an enduring, exhilarated disbelief that they still get to do this for a living, and that we still want to watch.
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