Jackass Forever

Jackass is still eye-wateringly entertaining, and unlike any other comedy on screen.

Sometimes, you just need to have the thoughts driven from your head.

In a pandemic era of extreme caution and fear, it's a welcome relief to watch Johnny Knoxville and the rest risk life and limb for the sheer hell of it.

You've got to admire their commitment to the bit... I laughed quite a bit.

Many are the amateur farts these films have kindled, Johnny Knoxville-voiced skull and crutch-crossbone disclaimer be damned. But the franchise’s lasting aesthetic mark is as a movie-shaped slot machine of rapid-fire bits.

Thank god for Knoxville, Steve-O, and their band of mismatched brothers. Though their bodies might be 20 years older than when they first started putting them through hell and back to entertain us... their inner enfants terribles have yet to grow up.

That sense of comradery that permeated the franchise, giving the juvenile foolery a bizarre but undeniable charm, only rears its head occasionally here.

Jackass Forever really is a testament to the enduring power of both friendship and innovative stupidity.

“Jackass Forever” validates the long-running franchise as a guilty-pleasure attraction&#59; a series best consumed sporadically featuring childish people pulling off stupid stunts for fun.

Jackass Forever is one of the very few examples of simple, uncomplicated, non-toxic fun: Behind the gross-out humour and over-the-top stunts, there's a wholesome kind of happiness that feels like going straight back to the early 2000s. In a good way.