Jackass Reunites for One Final Film After 25 Years

The prank and stunt collective Jackass is returning for what it says is its fifth and final movie, "Jackass Forever." At the London premiere on Monday, group leader Johnny Knoxville said, "That’s it. Even stuntmen and milk have expiration dates, so I feel it’s time to stop." He added, "I think we’re older, I don’t know about wiser. We didn’t start with much of that, and we didn’t learn much along the way. If we had, we wouldn’t have gotten the footage we have."

With Jeff Tremaine back in the director’s chair, the film mixes new material with unseen moments from the past 25 years, including stunts that were previously too extreme for broadcast or were cut in editing. The new sequences send the team into a nightmare escape room, an electric chair, and a prostate exam, while also featuring physical injury, genital abuse, and bodily fluids. Tremaine said, "It’s about half and half, new stuff and old stuff, it’s really about the stuff we love," adding, "You just meet us where we are. We’re getting older, so you gotta do prostate exams and colonoscopies, so we played with all of it."

The original cast, including Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, and Jason "Wee Man" Acuña, return in emotional scenes, alongside a new addition, the humanoid robot Larry. Archive footage includes Ryan Dunn, who died in 2011, and Bam Margera, who was removed from the group in 2020. Knoxville said seeing Dunn’s footage was "very emotional" and described the movie as "like a biography of our lives, our adult lives."

Jackass was created by Knoxville, Tremaine, and Spike Jonze in the late 1990s, with the first TV series airing on MTV in October 2000. All four previous Jackass films opened at number one in the U.S. box office. Pontius said it is sad this will be the last Jackass film, but the group will keep working together on other projects. Paramount will release the film worldwide on June 25, and it is expected to open in Israel on July 9.