jackass: best and last Feature Scores
Explore all 29 feature scores for jackass: best and last, organized into pros and cons.
Scores by Feature
Summary
29 reviewed features-
Very positive 4.5-5.03 (10%)
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Positive 3.5-4.412 (41%)
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Neutral 2.5-3.411 (38%)
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Negative 1.5-2.43 (10%)
Pros
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The cast’s affectionate camaraderie remains the movie’s greatest strength. Their shared laughter, trust, and willingness to look foolish turn extreme humiliation into a warm portrait of friendship.
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Aging, injury, absent friends, and Johnny Knoxville’s visible emotion give the farewell surprising weight. The best moments balance tears and laughter without losing the franchise’s crude spirit.
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Longtime fans and lively theater crowds are the clearest match, with the nostalgia and shared laughter doing much of the work. Newcomers may enjoy the historical overview, though some find it a weak starting point.
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The final ride generally feels warm, affectionate, and fitting, with the cast’s bond carrying the goodbye. A minority see it as an anticlimactic or unnecessary follow-up to stronger earlier farewells.
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The old-new intercutting often creates an effective nostalgic rhythm, and brisk cutting keeps the grossest moments moving. The same structure can also feel padded, choppy, or overly dependent on recycled footage.
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Classic bits remain reliable laugh generators, and several new stunts reach inspired slapstick heights. The heavy reliance on feces and rectal jokes is the most common comedic turnoff.
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The best classic stunts remain funny on repeat viewing, and a few new jokes linger long after the screening. Fans may still prefer rewatching the stronger original films in full.
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It remains unmistakably Jackass: anarchic, juvenile, gross, dangerous, and unexpectedly sweet. Fans of the franchise’s stunt-comedy identity should get the farewell they expect.
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The elaborate opening and closing sequences look polished, playful, and cinematic. The material between them is intentionally rougher and sometimes lacks the visual scale of earlier films.
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The movie is frequently funny, warm, and crowd-pleasing, especially for established fans. Enjoyment drops sharply for anyone frustrated by recycled footage or overwhelmed by the poop, nudity, and bodily harm.
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The polished opening and closing sequences and improved multicamera coverage show how far the production has evolved. A few controlled, monochrome setups look flat or visually unclear.
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The closing use of familiar torch songs gives the farewell scale and emotional lift, helping the final montage land.
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The short-sketch format usually keeps the film breezy and fast, with quick emotional resets between stunts. For some, the repeated vignette flow becomes numbing or feels like padded compilation viewing.
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Beneath the gross-out comedy is a sincere theme of male friendship, aging, mortality, and communal acceptance. The movie is most meaningful when it lets that bond show through.
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Its juvenile humor can connect with older teens, but the graphic nudity, excrement, dangerous stunts, and pervasive profanity make it a poor fit for younger or family audiences.
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The newer cast receives uneven treatment. Poopies and Zach make strong impressions, while Rachel Wolfson, Jasper Dolphin, Dark Shark, and others are too often reduced to reactions or background presence.
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The abundant male nudity is sometimes appreciated for its body-positive, nonjudgmental presentation. The relentless genital, rectal, and excrement material is excessive or unpleasant for many viewers.
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The greatest-hits structure is the clearest weakness. New and previously unseen footage adds value, but too much of the runtime revisits material longtime fans already know.
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The gross-out formula remains polarizing, and one strongly negative response dismisses it as cultural decline rather than worthwhile comedy.
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The blend of melancholy, nostalgia, and bodily chaos usually feels uniquely appropriate for the franchise. A few critics find the older cast’s pain, forced reactions, or hazing more sad and uncomfortable than funny.
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Theatrical crowd energy, unseen footage, and a handful of strong new stunts provide real value for committed fans. Heavy recycling also makes the film feel like a cheap cash grab to its harshest critics.
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This works better as an epilogue, living wake, or franchise scrapbook than as a fully formed standalone movie. Its clip-show construction limits narrative shape and fresh momentum.
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The reflective interviews add welcome context and emotion, but they are too brief. More candid conversation about friendship, aging, injury, and the end of the series would have strengthened the film.
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The new material is mostly confined to controlled sets and backlots, making the film feel less expansive and spectacular than earlier installments.
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At roughly 92 minutes, the movie moves quickly but can feel padded because so much space is devoted to familiar greatest hits.
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The genuine danger can still push viewers to the edge of their seats, but some staged sequences lack the escalating surprise and tension of the franchise’s best work.
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Jeff Tremaine gives the archival material thoughtful layering and the bookends a polished cinematic finish. The overall farewell can still feel hastily assembled and less inspired than earlier entries.
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The exaggerated physical punishment remains a defining source of laughter, but the cast’s age makes the danger harder to enjoy. Some stunts inspire admiration; others create real concern that someone could be seriously hurt.
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The strongest new stunts still deliver inventive, painful slapstick, but they are smaller and less daring than the franchise’s peak. Replayed classics frequently overshadow the fresh material.