RottenTomatoes.com
Log In | Register | What is RT?
Check out the new RT Community
  • Home
  • Movies
  • DVD
  • Celebrities
  • News
  • Critics
  • Trailers & Pictures
  • CommunityBeta
  • Box Office
  • | Best Of
  • | Certified Fresh
  • | Showtimes
RT Search Powered by Google
help icon Enhanced RT
searches on Google
Click here to turn on enhanced search results from RT on your Google searches.
 
Movies / On DVD / Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Rate this Movie Help Icon

  • Write a Review
  • Read Reviews
  • Add to List
  • Buy Poster External Icon
  • Visit Official Site External Icon
Bookmark and Share

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
53 %
Tomatometer
Template ImageTemplate Image

How does the Tomatometer work Help Icon

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... 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 stoner Jay (Jason Mewes) and his taciturn sidekick/"hetero life mate" Silent Bob (Smith) to carry their own movie. When comic store mogul Brodie (Jason Lee, reprising his MALLRATS role) informs Jay and Silent Bob that a movie featuring their comic book alter egos, Bluntman and Chronic, is about to be made, the duo demands a cut from the comic's creator, Holden (Ben Affleck, in his CHASING AMY role). Holden explains that his ex-partner, Banky (Lee again) has sold them out, and shows them some angry Internet posts from Bluntman and Chronic fans. Fearing for their reputations, Jay and Silent Bob embark on a cross-country odyssey to Hollywood to stop the film. En route, they run afoul of a Charlie's Angels-type jewelry thief ring--one of whom, Justice (Shannon Elizabeth) takes a liking to Jay--an orangutan, a Federal Wildlife Marshall (Will Ferrell), and Miramax studio security. Smith's fond farewell to his intertwined Jersey characters is a lovingly crude, broad comedy rife with celebrity cameos, slapstick movie spoofs, and clever jabs at Hollywood. [More]

Starring: Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Joey Lauren Adams, Ben Affleck

Starring: Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Joey Lauren Adams, Ben Affleck, Diedrich Bader, Jason Biggs, Matt Damon, George Carlin, Jason Lee, Chris Rock, Shannon Elizabeth, Will Ferrell, James Van Der Beek, Renee Humphrey, Ali Larter, Seann William Scott, Dwight Ewell, Eliza Dushku, Judd Nelson, Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Gus Van Sant, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Wes Craven, Morris Day

Director: Kevin Smith

Director: Kevin Smith
Screenwriter: Kevin Smith
Producer: Scott Mosier
Composer: Tim Simonec, James Venable
Studio: Dimension Films

[See More Credits]

  • Trailers
  • Pictures
1 - 4 of 4

See More Movie Trailers & Pictures

Reviews for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
 
 
81 - 100 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Text View | |< << 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >> >|
Arrange By:Fresh | Rotten | Comments | Name | Source | Date
 
 

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is all about guilty-pleasure yuks, and plenty of them.

Full Review Source: Fantastica Daily | comment Comment
08/24/01
Staci Layne Wilson
Staci Layne Wilson
Fantastica Daily

This ramshackle affair unspools like a bloopers reel of stag-party outtakes culled from Smith's four previous movies: Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
08/24/01
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star

Smith's script is the funniest of this dimbulb summer, and the sharpest he has ever written.

Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment Comment
08/24/01
Sean Means
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune

I can’t imagine how Smith can capture a big enough audience to pay off this private joke, but the inner geek in me had too much fun to care.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
08/24/01
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

If you let the silliness simply wash over you and simply sit back and appreciate the flurry of inside Hollywood humor, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back can be as bright and cheery as Jay's yellow slicker.

Full Review Source: Fresno Bee | comment Comment
08/24/01
Donald Munro
Donald Munro
Fresno Bee

One of the funniest comedies to come from a major studio in a long time.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
08/24/01
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

This boisterous and frequently laugh- out- loud comedy isn't just a larkish retrospective of Smith's ViewAskew universe of characters ... it's a romp through Smith's psyche.

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment Comment
08/24/01
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

Has few pretensions to be anything else, and if you laughed at the characters in Kevin Smith's first four films and the Clerks cartoon (which is the only reason you'd be considering seeing this movie), you'll laugh at this one too.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
08/24/01
Ben Varkentine
Ben Varkentine
PopMatters

Kevin Smith, coming off the wonderful, challenging Dogma, fills it with sub-Road Trip gross-out jokes and expects us to buy it because he's just oh-so-ironic.

Full Review Source: Film Blather | comment Comment
08/24/01
Eugene Novikov
Eugene Novikov
Film Blather

Snoogans...

Full Review Source: Radio Free Entertainment | comment Comment
08/24/01
Andrew Manning
Andrew Manning
Radio Free Entertainment

Smith has a little fiefdom or franchise going, but as Dogma proved, his gift for satire runs south of Mad heading toward 'Jokes for the John.'

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
08/24/01
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is still one of the funnier comedies of the year.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
08/24/01
Tor Thorsen
Tor Thorsen
Reel.com

The only positive aspect of Jay and Bob's idiocy is our knowledge that this is apparently their last hurrah.

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
08/24/01
Cameron Meier
Cameron Meier
Orlando Weekly

All that's required to enjoy this crazily engaging comedy is to be somewhere near Smith's twisted Gen X wavelength.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
08/24/01
Jay Boyar
Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel

The best-looking, best-scripted and funniest of Smith's pictures, it's also Smith's sharpest.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
08/24/01
Kim Morgan
Kim Morgan
Oregonian

Like The Blues Brothers, this film has a ridiculous conceit that doesn't quite work.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
08/24/01
Elvis Mitchell
Elvis Mitchell
New York Times
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is less a satire of the crass product Hollywood hurls at us than a reflection of it.

Full Review Source: Mr. Showbiz | comment Comment
08/24/01
Kevin Maynard
Kevin Maynard
Mr. Showbiz

Smith is a smart guy with more ideas than directorial skills, which accounts for the scattershot quality of his work.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
08/24/01
Duane Dudek
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

If you can dig that kind of hilarious idiocy (and I know I can), then you're just the audience for this.

Full Review Source: IFilm | comment Comment
08/24/01
Dave White
Dave White
IFilm

Unlike, say, American Pie 2 or the Scary Movie franchise, there's obvious intelligence at work behind the stupidity.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
08/24/01
Eric Harrison
Eric Harrison
Houston Chronicle
 
 
81 - 100 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Text View | |< << 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >> >|
all

Latest News for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

July 31, 2006: Box Office Wrapup: "Miami Vice" Knocks Pirates From #1 Spot
Detectives Crockett and Tubbs shot their way to number one in North America with the cop thriller Miami Vice which finally managed to knock the megablockbuster Pirates of the... More...

July 24, 2006: Box Office Wrapup: "Pirates" Passes $300M; "Lady" Stumbles
Johnny Depp made this weekend's four new releases walk the plank as his megablockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest became the first film of the year to spend... More...

July 20, 2006: Box Office Preview: Will Lady Sink Pirates in the Water?
Directors take center stage this weekend providing starpower to four new films opening in North American theaters all hoping to take down reigning box office king Pirates of the... More...

July 20, 2006: Critical Consensus: "Lady" Is All Wet; "Ex" Is Not Super; "House" Is Scary, "Clerks" Is Funny
This week we've got some magic in ordinary dwellings (M. Night Shyamalan's "Lady in the Water" and "Monster House") and some funny couples ("My Super... More...

See All

More DVDs

Top Rentals
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
15% 15% The Ugly Truth
98% 98% Up
36% 36% G.I. Joe: The Rise of …
52% 52% The Taking of Pelham 1…
45% 45% Ice Age: Dawn of the D…

More Rentals…

New On DVD This Week
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
36% 36% Angels & Demons
68% 68% Funny People
25% 25% Four Christmases
45% 45% Shorts

More New Releases…

What’s Hot On RT

Prince of Persia

Prince of Persia

Your first look at the swashbuckler.

Vampires

Vampires

We rank cinema's bloodsuckers.

Avatar

Avatar

The full trailer for Cameron's epic.

2012

2012

12 facts about Emmerich's disaster flick.

Other News

  • Top Stories
  • Popular
  • Interviews
 
 

Comments

 
 
Top Stories
Headlines Comments
  
  • Disney Restructuring Has Broad Implications Source: Los Angeles Times
4
  • Joel Silver Talks Ninja Assassin, Sgt. Rock, Lobo, and More Source: Collider.com
1
  • Weekly Ketchup: Idris Elba cast in Thor, more Spider-Man 4 rumors
102
  • Idris Elba Joins Thor Source: Hollywood Reporter
112
  • Jackass 3D Coming in 2010? Source: Collider.com
32
  • 6 Reasons 'Twilight' Is Doomed Source: The Wrap
63
  • Forbes Names Hollywood's Most Overpaid Actors Source: Forbes
20
  • Chris Weitz Says He's (Almost) Done with Directing Source: Film School Rejects
26
  • Spider-Man 4 Casting Rumors Multiply Like Rabbits Source: Deadline Hollywood Daily
51
  • McTeigue Says Superman Is "In a Weird Place" Source: MTV
204
Popular
Headlines Comments
  
  • Box Office Guru Wrapup: New Moon Shatters Records
140
  • Critics Consensus: New Moon Wanes
129
  • Tomatometer Watch: Will Twilight's New Moon Dazzle?
97
  • Total Recall: Star-Crossed Lovers
74
  • Weekly Ketchup: Idris Elba cast in Thor, more Spider-Man 4 rumors
51
  • Five Favorite Films with Werner Herzog
50
  • Friday Harvest: New Moon, Avatar, and more!
31
  • Eric Bana talks Love the Beast - RT Interview
8
  • Ho, ho, ho! It's RT's Great Big Gift Guide!
0
Interviews
Headlines Comments
  
  • Eric Bana talks Love the Beast - RT Interview
8
  • Fight Club Sound Designer Reflects on Film's 10th Anniversary
19
  • James Schamus talks Taking Woodstock - RT Interview
6
  • John Hurt Talks Harry Potter, Quentin Crisp and Alien - The RT Interview
15
  • Terry Gilliam Talks Doctor Parnassus
16
  • Wes Anderson Talks Fantastic Mr. Fox - RT Interview
8
  • Wolverine Creator Len Wein Talks About the Film
28
  • Gavin Hood Talks Wolverine; Possible Sequel
28
  • Duncan Jones talks Moon, Sam Rockwell, and Mute
14
  • Emma Stone talks Zombieland - RT Interview
41
 
 

Sponsored Links

Around The Network

  • Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back at IGN
  • Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back at AskMen

Fresh Links

Featured
RT on YouTube
RT on YouTube External Link

Subscribe to RT's YouTube channel and don't miss a second of our cracking video content.

RT on Twitter
RT on Twitter External Link

Follow Rotten Tomatoes and join us as we tweet about the week's releases.

 
 
About| Site Map| Help| RT To Go| Contact Us| Critics Submission| Linking to RT| Licensing| Movie List| Celebs List| Newsletter
IGN Logo

IGN.com | GameSpy | Comrade | Arena | FilePlanet | GameSpy Technology
TeamXbox | Planets | Vaults | VE3D | CheatsCodesGuides | GameStats | GamerMetrics
AskMen.com | Rotten Tomatoes | Direct2Drive | Green Pixels


By continuing past this page, and by the continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
Copyright 1998-2009, IGN Entertainment, Inc. About IGN | Support | Advertise | Privacy Policy | User Agreement | Subscribe to RT's XML feed! IGN RSS Feeds
IGN's enterprise databases running Oracle, SQL and MySQL are professionally monitored and managed by Pythian Remote DBA
Certain product data ©1995-present Muze, Inc. For personal use only. All rights reserved.