Jackass: Best And Last
A fearless and occasionally feckless bunch of pranksters and would-be-stuntmen (the solo woman here, Rachel Wolfson, doesn’t perform any pranks in this fifth film outing), the Jackass mob have been egging each other on to perform wincingly painful tricks since the turn of the millennium.
Series co-creator Johnny Knoxville and the rest of his (increasingly ageing) team know they can’t really continue thrashing their bodies and testing their physical resilience in unpleasant ways — as much fun as they’re all still having. When we see them getting slammed in the nuts, injected and Tasered, it remains riotously funny, but it’s also like watching Tom Cruise repeatedly defy death in the later Mission: Impossible films: hugely impressive, but enough to make you beg them to stop, for the love of God, before all this insanity kills them.
Those hoping for fresh insanity here may be disappointed; less than an hour of Best And Last’s 92 minutes are dedicated to brand-new stunts.
Those hoping for fresh insanity here may be disappointed; less than an hour of Best And Last’s 92 minutes are dedicated to brand-new stunts. A typical new entry involves Steve-O, Jackass’ most prominent survivor other than Knoxville, receiving a forceful prostate exam from a robot, its metal fingers lubed up with peanut butter. It is a disgusting, extremely uncomfortable scene that will have all but the must stoic viewer laughing to the verge of tears. Of the old clips resurfaced, meanwhile, many will gasp at Ryan Dunn inserting a toy car in his anus, or cheer as Knoxville rides a rocket into the air and crashes into a lake.
In one previously unseen clip, which MTV refused to broadcast on the TV series, Knoxville — convincingly dressed as an escaped convict — hacksaws his way through handcuffs in a hardware store and gets arrested. It’s a typically audacious and utterly idiotic stunt, which escalates dramatically when the LAPD turn up, guns drawn. But then, thinking things through has never really been the point of Jackass. And that’s part of its appeal, too. If this truly is goodbye, it feels dumbly fitting.
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