Jackass: Best and Last      Director: Jeff TremaineCert: 16Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Wee Man, Dave England, Danger Ehren, Preston LacyRunning Time: 1 hr 40 mins“Danger, shit, puke. That’s what this show is all about,” someone says halfway through Jackass’s latest carnival of depravity. It’s a good line. It’s also an old one. Few citizens even vaguely at home to the inappropriate will fail to admit a snort when, here, the boys blast airhorns at golfers or, to the astonishment of gawping civilians, stage barfights between little-people drinkers and little-people cops.But those are repeated “classics” from earlier manifestations of a franchise that oozed into existence more than 25 years ago. There is a sense of a banger running on fumes. “It’s like a later Tom and Jerry when the two of them could talk,” Pulp sang in Bad Cover Version. “Like the Stones since the Eighties. Like the last days of Southfork.” Well, quite. To be fair, Best and Last sees Johnny Knoxville and the surviving Jackasses lean into superannuation. One new stunt is connected to prostate exams, another to colonoscopies. Fair enough. Both are suitably disgusting, and both generate the expected whoops of laughter from cast and crew. (The team’s wheezy astonishment at their own stupidity has always been a key part of the appeal.)But this is essentially the same joke repeated. Are they next going to test for scrotal hernias while the patient is on a bungee line or perform thyroidectomies under gunfire? No spoilers from us.So rooted is the film in the experiences of Generation X that one finds oneself muttering “They wouldn’t get away with this now.” Except – they are getting away with it now. The quinquagenarian rascals are still devising new ways of frustrating supposed prohibitions on frat-boy masculinity. When, cocreated by the key millennial hipster Spike Jonze, Jackass first landed on MTV, it was seen as a retort to pinch-mouthed “political correctness”. Now the stunts will play with the “anti-woke” crowd. Somebody will always be saying the supposedly unsayable.All of which would be fine if the team didn’t seem so exhausted. Towards the close they joke about Knoxville yet again, as he did in their 2022 film Jackass Forever, claiming this is the last in the series. Then we hear a blast of We’ll Meet Again. That now feels more like a threat than a promise.In cinemas from Friday, June 26th