Jackass, June 26 -- LOS ANGELES - Twenty-five years of broken bones and institutional refusal to grow up are ending today, if the cast and Paramount Pictures mean it, with the best critical reception the franchise has ever earned and the most modest opening weekend it has ever faced.

Best and Last, directed by Jeff Tremaine and opening in U.S. theaters June 26, carries a 93 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes from 42 critics, the highest approval rating in franchise history by a meaningful margin. The domestic opening weekend is projected somewhere between $14 million and $19 million. That would be the smallest theatrical debut a Jackass feature has ever recorded. Jackass 3D opened to $50.3 million in 2010. Jackass Forever managed $23.1 mil...