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Millennials showed up to theaters for a dose of nostalgia this week with Jackass: Best and Last debuting to solid reviews. However, the numbers simply weren’t there for the slapstick, stunt-based comedy sequel. The new movie grossed less than one-fifth of the franchise’s high-water mark, set by the third installment over a decade ago. The Jackass franchise, which began as an MTV series in the early aughts and branched off to the big screen not long afterward, has relied on nostalgia since the third installment’s release in 2012. You’d have to wonder how many times audiences can be courted with the promise of one last ride. The new movie makes this assertion in the title and brings back franchise veterans Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O, although a key member of the group, Bam Margera, is missing for the second time in a row.
Jackass: Best and Last holds a stellar 88% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, which is currently the highest for any installment of the franchise. By comparison, Jackass Forever holds an 86% score, while Jackass 3 is sitting at a 67% score and Jackass Number Two has a 66% score. Jackass: The Movie is the only installment not rated “fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes. The fifth movie also earned an A- grade from CinemaScore audiences — the best since the original film, which was released nearly 25 years ago.
Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.
You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.
You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.
You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.
You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
Jackass: Best and Last grossed a little more than $8 million in its domestic debut, which is the worst bow in the franchise’s history. It’s also far lower than the franchise-record haul of $50 million set by Jackass 3. That film ended up grossing more than $170 million worldwide, also a franchise record. Jackass Forever grossed $23 million in its opening weekend, Jackass Number Two grossed $29 million in its first three days, and Jackass: The Movie earned $22 million in its domestic debut. Even the spin-off, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, grossed more than $100 million domestically and more than $160 million worldwide. Every installment of the franchise has been directed by Jeff Tremaine, with Oscar-winner Spike Jonze serving as a writer and producer. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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