Mostly Film – Take 237: Jackass In Review — The .5 Films & Best and Last

The Jackass deep dive continues. This week Jonathan and JP go beyond the main franchise and into the weird, wonderful overflow — the four companion films that asked a different question entirely: what do you do with the material that didn't fit?

They work through all of it. Jackass 2.5, the first major studio film ever released exclusively online and a genuinely revolutionary moment in 2007 that nobody talks about enough. Jackass 3.5, the overflow film that some fans will tell you with a straight face is actually better than 3D. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, the franchise's strangest entry — a narrative prank film starring Knoxville in full prosthetics that somehow earned an Oscar nomination for makeup and pulled $102 million at the box office. And Jackass 4.5, the Netflix companion to Forever that somehow ended up being the most emotionally heavy entry in the .5 canon.

Then they get into Best and Last in full — the opening numbers, the 89% on Rotten Tomatoes (the franchise's highest ever), the archival Bam footage, Ryan Dunn throughout, and the word critics kept using that nobody expected to associate with a Jackass film: poignant. Also on the table: does Best and Last actually function more like a .5 film than a proper finale? And is that a problem, or the most honest way the franchise could have ended?

Plus the big ranking question — all nine films, including the .5s and Bad Grandpa, ordered from top to bottom.