After eleven years of absence, the Jackass team is finally back with their latest – and supposedly final – installment, Jackass Forever. Despite the core cast’s growing age, they’re showing zero signs of slowing down in the newest movie, and in some cases, it seems they’re even willing to go further than ever before.
From the downright disgusting to the utterly painful, the Jackass cast is still showing audiences why they had such a powerful impact on 2000s pop culture with their often insane and always gasp-inducing series. Jackass Forever cuts no corners when it comes to stunts, and some segments will have viewers squirming in their seats.
WARNING: Spoilers ahead!
10 The Electric Tap Dance
With a special guest appearance from Tyler, the Creator, the Jackass crew get dressed up in their finery to tap dance on an electrically charged floor as Tyler pretends to play the piano alongside them. At first, Tyler doesn’t think he’s involved in the pain, but when he discovers that his chair is also rigged to shock him, the fun truly begins. There’s something extra unhinged about the Jackass stunts that properly involve their guest stars, and watching Tyler and the cast members jump around in equal measure to an old-timey tune is hilariously absurd.
9 Scorpion Botox
Newcomer Rachel Wolfson takes scorpion stings like it’s nobody’s business in this stunt. It sees Rachel sat back in a chair being attended to by her “doctor,” Chris Pontius, who is holding a scorpion up to her lips and letting a handler agitate it until it stings her. After all, beauty is pain.
Not only does the scorpion sting her several times, she actively moves to try and get it in the right position to sting her further. After all, being stung on only one lip would make it uneven, which is the exact opposite of what botox intends to do.
8 The Every Available Fan In Los Angeles
This unnamed on-screen stunt sees the cast get their hands on every high-powered fan in Los Angeles, two of which run at 100mph, and take it in turns to fly down a slicked runway and over a ramp in any ridiculous way they see fit. The landing zone (as usual) has little in the way of protection and sees the cast members flying into the grass at high speeds. Newcomer Poopies even knocks himself out and has the veteran cast calling for the medics. But it doesn’t take long for him to come round and grin from ear to ear, cementing his place in this crazy cast.
7 The Sacrifice Of Wee Man’s Ass
The beast awakens, the monster arises. The Jackass crew perform an incredible homage to an unused season one stunt in a perfect mix of comedy and high-stakes. Dressed up as spooky graveyard spirits, Pontius and Steve-O tie Wee Man up and cover him in bite-sized pieces of raw meat, but more specifically (and most importantly), they stuff a lot of it in his pants.
After they’ve stepped back, a vulture is released to partake in the sacrifice. The vulture begins to nip at the pieces of meat all over Wee Man’s body, which elicits a whole range of shrieks and squeals from the veteran jokester.
6 The Cup Test
The Cup Tests sees viewers’ favorite punching bag, Danger Ehren, testing out a cup for his genitals. Only, the cup is a pretty standard sports cup and the tests are anything but. The trio of tests consists of him taking blows from UFC heavyweight Francis Ngannou, the world’s fastest softball pitcher & olympian Danielle O’Toole, and professional hockey player P. K. Subban.
It’s safe to say that Ehren suffers tremendously throughout the experience, but he doesn’t have a nasty injury to show for it until fellow Jackass cast member Dave England steps in with a pogo stick. After the ordeal is over, Ehren shows a particularly brutal injury to the camera, while Dave looks on in bewildered bemusement.
5 The Flight Of Icarus
With wings strapped to his back, Jackass superstar Johnny Knoxville climbs into a giant cannon and fires himself out over a body of water. While it may seem like typical fodder for Knoxville now, it doesn’t make his airborne cannon segments any more predictable than the last.
It’s no surprise that Knoxville slams into the water with an audible impact, each of the many onlookers wincing at the sight of it. What’s uniquely impressive, however, was Knoxville’s ability to pose for the camera as he came out of the cannon.
4 The Marching Band
What could go wrong with a combination of a fast treadmill, a collection of Jackass members holding large instruments, and a concrete floor in a disused warehouse? The Jackass cast found out in The Marching Band. As soon as they each individually set foot on the treadmill they are all rocketed off into each other, instruments and all. Multiple cast members suffered head injuries, some passing out altogether, and those that didn’t likely had some vicious grazes from the concrete.
3 The Vomitron
What ends up being one of the most elaborate stunts in Jackass has an incredibly simple premise. A select few of the cast all have to drink as much milk as they possibly can – the milk being colored to match their outfits – before they get on a small roundabout. Said roundabout will then spin, and the cast members must try and refrain from vomiting.
Except it devolves into complete and utter chaos. The cast members strapped into the roundabout have nowhere to go when a platoon of paintball gun-wielding individuals begin pelting them with rounds. Not only that, but Wee Man drives around in a small tank, and explosions start to litter the background. It’s a cacophony of sound, struggles, and sensational comedy.
2 The Opening Credits
As with every entry in the Jackass film franchise, the opening credits are a huge set-piece populated with stunts, special effects, and cameos from almost every cast member (perhaps even some special guests as well). This time around, audiences are introduced to “Dickzilla,” and the entire premise of the opening credits is that a huge monster is rampaging through a city.
Chris Pontius lends his talent to play the role of Dickzilla, while all the other cast members are thrown about or attacked within the city. It’s a completely wacky and bizarre sequence that seems plucked straight from a fever dream.
1 The Lie Detector Test
In the stunt that nobody in the audience saw coming, Danger Ehren is thrust into perhaps the craziest stunt of his entire career with The Lie Detector Test – strapped into a chair under the premise he’s to perform a simple lie detector test with the normal Jackass gimmick of getting shocked, but a Jackass check isn’t that easy to collect.
After being covered in honey and raw salmon, Ehren is left alone in the room and a black bear is let in with him, the bear picking carefully at a screaming Ehren as it attempts to simply find a nice meal. The stunt is the absolute pinnacle of Jackass chaos, being off-the-walls crazy and stomach-churningly hilarious in equal measure.
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