If Jackass: Best and Last (🌟🌟🌟🌟) is really the final ride with the crew, if this is really the end, all I can do is say thank you because the last 25 years plus have been nothing but a pleasure & an honor. Each and every Jackass movie, television episode, and stunt has made my life slightly better. I will always love spending time with these dudes. And while Best and Last features a good amount of old footage & some of the best stunts in the crew’s history, there’s enough meat on the bone for this finale to be a more-than-worthy last dance. I had a blast seeing this in theaters.  As I mentioned in my opener, a large portion of this film is Johnny Knoxville throwing it back or giving us context around some of the most famous stunts done in the crew’s history. At 55 years old, Knoxville is somewhat “limited” in the things he’s able to do, especially after he flipped twice in the air, broke his wrist, broke a rib, and suffered a traumatic brain injury just six years ago after a massive bull ran into his ass- a stunt which is revisited in this film. I think it’s perhaps the most consequential & one of the most memorable stunts Knoxville has ever done in a lifetime performing memorable stunts, all of which have always- always- felt totally authentic & wholesome.  Authentic. Wholesome. Those are words that are rapidly being sucked out of thin air in today’s society. Everything is fake, nothing feels real. Seeing footage that these guys created as early as 1999 through the early ‘00s is sort of a reminder that the Jackass crew has always been in this crazy shit for the love of the game. I truly believe in my heart if zero people on Earth bought tickets to a Jackass movie, these guys would’ve still done all this wild, life-threatening entertainment at a young age. It’s that wholesome, authentic nature that still exists in this film, all these years later, which makes it totally worth watching.  I definitely think Knoxville has a Charlie Chaplin/Buster Keaton appeal in that his physical comedy is literally generational. I also think Knoxville still has a lot to offer creatively & still has a ton of energy. I’m very curious to see where he puts his energy now that this is truly the final run for Jackass- or so he says (wink, wink).  Coming in at just about 90 minutes on the dot, this was a really pleasant theater-going experience.