While this is sure to amuse die-hard Smith fans, anyone else may either be hopelessly lost by the in-jokes or frustrated by the lack of screen time afforded the expansive supporting cast.
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02/04/02
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
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Reviews Counted:148
Fresh:78
Rotten:70
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: Fans can expect a good laugh as the cast from Smith's previous films reunite for Jay and Silent Bob's last bow. The loose plotting and crude language may be too much for others though.
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Writer-director Kevin Smith's fifth and final installment of his New Jersey Chronicles (which began in 1994 with the breakout, low-budget comedy CLERKS) is a chance for scene-stealing, foulmouthed... [More]
Starring: Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Joey Lauren Adams, Ben Affleck
Director: Kevin Smith
Reviews for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
If Dogma and Chasing Amy were incisive comedies that breathed life into a stagnating genre, then Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is Kevin Smith’s suicide note.
11/18/01
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11/12/01
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10/26/01
If there were ever a movie that deserved that label "For Fans Only", this is it.
10/10/01
No audience will enjoy itself more at a film, as long as they remember that this film is raunchy and does not stop at any boundary of good taste.
09/18/01
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09/06/01
Top Criticgiddy, goofy, random, crude and rude, and it is often side-splittingly hilarious
09/04/01
Smith should take a lesson from Silent Bob: sometimes less is more.
09/04/01
The film’s premise is doubly clever and self-conscious: Jay and Silent Bob are moved to action by Hollywood’s phoniness, and their story is all about the resulting manufacture, destruction and confusion of identities.
09/02/01
I admit to enjoying -- in a drunken, half-asleep kind of way -- parts of this ramshackle road movie with its running Miramax guest stars and its endless homo jokes.
08/31/01
Smith fans will have a lot of fun.
08/30/01
This feels like the high school skit that the principal would not let the kids do on talent night.
08/27/01
Silly, profane and, on its own explicitly stated terms, very nearly perfect.
08/27/01
Smith's work is as uneven as ever, but unlike in the past, the director gleefully surrenders any pretense toward making a 'good' or 'serious' film, and the effect is somewhat liberating.
08/27/01
Smith, coming off the madly audacious Dogma, knows that he's slumming this time and revels in it.
08/27/01
Certainly not a perfect comedy and definitely not one for all viewers, yet entertaining enough for what it's trying to do and be for its target audience.
08/27/01
Hysterical.
08/27/01
Though it's every bit as dialogue intensive as Smith's other films, it lacks any pretence of relevance or intelligence that make his self-indulgent rambling occasionally bearable.
08/27/01
For diehard Smith fans, the film is likely to come across as an orgy of yuks. For the rest, it's just an orgy of yuck.
08/27/01
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