Johnny Knoxville and the crew he somehow kept alive for over two decades are returning to the big screen one final time — and based on what the trailer shows, they are absolutely not going out quietly.
Jackass – Best and Last is the fifth and, as the title politely suggests, the final installment in the franchise that convinced an entire generation it was perfectly acceptable to launch yourself out of a cannon for entertainment. Paramount has dropped the official trailer, and it does not disappoint — if “disappointment” in this context means the absence of physical suffering.
The trailer opens with a wave of nostalgic energy before quickly pivoting to what audiences actually showed up for: chaos. Among the highlights teased in the footage is Steve-O receiving what is being described as the world’s first robot prostate exam — a sentence that, outside the context of this franchise, would signal the end of a career rather than the beginning of a promotional campaign. There is also an electric shock collar attached to a cast member’s genitals, and an escape room designed entirely around the theme of maximum agony, featuring an electric chair as a central prop. Business as usual, then.
What gives this particular outing a different emotional flavor is the finality of it all. The franchise began in 2000 as a scrappy MTV series born from skate culture, the DIY ethic of punk zines, and an apparent collective immunity to pain. Over the following two-plus decades, it spawned four feature films and a handful of spinoffs. The original cast — Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Wee Man, Preston Lacy, Ehren McGhehey — became a strange kind of family, one that expressed love primarily by tasing each other.
Knoxville himself is 55 years old now. His semi-retirement from stunts after Jackass Forever was not a publicity move — a rampaging bull sent him to the hospital with a brain hemorrhage, broken wrist, broken rib, and a concussion that doctors told him he could not risk repeating. He has since acknowledged that his body has essentially filed formal paperwork demanding he stop. And yet here he is, one more time.
Joining the veterans for this final outing are newer additions Zach Holmes, Jasper Dolphin, and Rachel Wolfson — younger cast members who presumably have not yet received the medical memos their predecessors have accumulated. Their involvement suggests the franchise is not simply going through the motions of greatest hits, but trying to hand something off: a tradition, a spirit, a complete inability to say no to a dumb idea.
The trailer was initially previewed at CinemaCon earlier this month before its wide release, generating the kind of loud, enthusiastic audience response that studios dream about and doctors dread. The footage includes a mix of archival callbacks to classic bits alongside entirely new stunts that suggest the production budget went largely toward hospital copays and legal waivers.
Jackass: Best and Last hits theaters on June 26, 2026. It is produced by Paramount and MTV Entertainment Studios. Jeff Tremaine, who directed the original MTV series and has shepherded the franchise since its inception through his production company Gorilla Flicks, is back behind the camera.
There is something genuinely moving about the fact that this franchise is still standing. It never tried to be sophisticated. It never pretended to be art. It was always exactly what it looked like: a group of people who trusted each other enough to do extremely stupid things together, and who somehow turned that into one of the longest-running comedy franchises in modern cinema history. The trailer, absurd as it is, carries a real note of goodbye. Whether or not you can watch it without involuntarily wincing, it is hard not to respect the longevity.
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