Jay and Silent Bob, aside from being a sterling valentine to fans, serves as a wickedly perceptive satire of the movie business and the audience at large.
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08/25/01
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
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Reviews Counted:147
Fresh:78
Rotten:69
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
Things end clumsily, but not without a goofy, sweaty smile stretching from your ear to ear.
08/24/01
The picture lacks the mix of innocence and savagery that branded [Smith's] other films.
08/24/01
In keeping with the Smith rules, the movie is irreverent, self-referential, twisted, cheap and tasteless. And, of course, I mean that as the highest compliment.
08/24/01
Humor leans heavily on elementary pop-culture parody, a particularly tiresome and parasitic form of humor that depends on an audience of smirking know-it-alls who can be trusted to snicker whenever they get the reference.
08/24/01
Skeptics who take a chance on this flick, beware. You may noticeably feel 98 minutes of your precious life force being sucked from your marrow and, oh, how you'll miss those lost moments!
08/24/01
In addition to being [Smith's] filthiest, this is his most free-associative movie. In spite of and because of its homemade look, it's also his funniest.
08/24/01
A desperate attempt by Kevin Smith to pay homage to himself in a self-consciously left-handed way.
08/24/01
Jay and Silent Bob is strictly for hard-core fans of the New Jersey chronicles -- and you know who you are. Like the also weak Mallrats, the new film will survive strictly on the good will of Smith's fans.
08/24/01
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is what happens when a smart filmmaker decides that it's all right to get really stupid.
08/24/01
A dumbfounding, cameo-peppered road comedy that demeans everyone associated with it.
08/24/01
The originality and intelligence that made Smith's Clerks and Chasing Amy such refreshing pleasures are all but absent.
08/24/01
The relentless torrent of foul language--and not just from Jay--becomes numbing and finally makes the film seem more crass than amusing.
08/24/01
Top CriticSmith said this is the last time he will foist Jay and Bob on movie audiences. Please let him be a man of his word.
08/24/01
See the movie at your own risk. It's no Dogma. It's as dumb as a bag of rocks. But it does have a lot of funny stuff.
08/24/01
Not clever enough for Smith fans, not gross enough to compete on the Farrelly brothers' ground, the movie feels like a kind of self-congratulatory fake.
08/24/01
Deliciously inane, transcendentally outrageous and purposely preposterous, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is destined to be seen by some as the greatest cinematic achievement of the year.
08/24/01
Kevin Smith's movies are either made specifically for you, or specifically not made for you. If you read this review without a smile or a nod of recognition, I would recommend Rush Hour 2, which is for everybody or nobody, you tell me.
08/24/01
Top CriticWhile Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back can't be called hard-hitting, it's both freeform enough and free-swinging enough to make contact with the series' original anarchic impulses.
08/24/01
A cinematic garage sale that allows the director to sweep up any and all debris collected in his psyche since the release of Clerks.
08/24/01
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