STACK #264 October 2026

MOVIE FEATURE

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GENRE: Comedy RUN TIME: 1h 32m

Fun fact: The original title for the TV series was Assholes , but MTV strongly objected to it.

There’s probably no other movie franchise quite like Jackass . Whether that’s a good thing or not, we’ll let you be the judge.

F or more than 25 years, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Wee Man, Danger Ehren, and the rest of the daredevil gang have made a career out of doing things most sensible people wouldn’t even consider. Now, with Jackass: Best and Last , these professional idiots are saying goodbye by doing it one last time. “This one’s the best because we picked our favourite bits from all the shows and movies and shot a bunch of strong, new bits,” says Jackass mastermind Knoxville who, at 55, should probably avoid such bone-breaking stunts. “And it’s the last because we can’t do this forever. A stuntman has an expiration date just

like milk. After 16 concussions, I can’t play with bulls or get shot out of rockets or anything like that anymore, so it seemed like the perfect time to stop.” Directed by longtime Jackass filmmaker Jeff Tremaine, the movie combines brand-new stunts with classic moments, previously unseen footage and plenty of the outrageous behaviour that turned the franchise into a pop culture phenomenon. A few original stars appear only in archival footage, including Bam Margera and the late Ryan Dunn, who passed away in 2011. Dunn features in one of Tremaine’s all-time favourite sequences. “It’s the end of the first movie and still one of the funniest things we ever shot,” says the director.

Ultimately, Jackass has endured because of the genuine bond between its cast. “We’re incredibly lucky and very grateful

that Jackass has come to mean so much to people,” says Knoxville. “It's a movie you want to see together so you can laugh with your buddies and trauma-bond with your buddies. That experience doesn’t come around often. It’s like our love letter and gift to ourselves and to the audience.” After a quarter-century of bad decisions, the gang gets one final chance to make us laugh, wince, and wonder: Why on Earth would anyone do that? Gill Pringle

• Jackass: Best and Last is out Oct 7

GO BACK TO THE START WITH:

Jackass: The Complete TV and Movie Collection

GENRE: Family RUN TIME: 1hr 30m

Before they met Gru, the Minions were movie stars. Now, they’re back in Hollywood’s golden age – with chaotic results.

T here’s something delightfully meta about Minions & Monsters taking over Hollywood – after all,

love with the movies, they decide to make their own monster

movie set is first overtaken by the Minions. While he fears the disaster will end his career, studio-head brothers Frank and Elwood, both voiced by Bridges, see the Minions as something far more valuable: stars. Bridges drew on Hollywood history to capture the brothers’ larger-than-life personalities. “I watched some old footage of Jack Warner to get a feeling for that kind of studio boss,” he says. “Those guys had enormous power, and there was a real theatricality to the way they carried themselves.”

FUN FACT

picture. Their typically Minion-like solution?

that’s essentially what these little yellow characters have been doing to the movie business for more than a decade. This rambunctious new adventure sends the Minions back to 1920s Hollywood, where they accidentally become movie stars before losing everything when the industry moves from silent movies to “talkies”. Unable

Minions & Monsters is a treasure trove of Easter eggs and classic Hollywood references. Look out for nods to famous filmmakers, classic cinema, and George Lucas’s first cameo in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith .

Stealing a spellbook from an evil sorcerer and using it to summon actual monsters for their film. Naturally, things go spectacularly wrong. Directed by Pierre Coffin, who helmed the first three Despicable

Me movies and the original Minions , the

For families looking for silly fun, Minions & Monsters is an easy choice – and for adults who’ve resisted the Minions until now, it may finally be time to surrender to the yellow army. Gill Pringle

to translate their Minionese into movie dialogue, the former celebrities find themselves broke and directionless. But James and Henry aren’t ready to give up on filmmaking. Having fallen in

latest chapter features an all-star voice cast including Trey Parker, Allison Janney, Christoph Waltz, Jesse Eisenberg, Zoey Deutch, and Jeff Bridges. Waltz voices Max, the director whose

• Minions & Monsters is out Oct 7

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