Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is all about guilty-pleasure yuks, and plenty of them.
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... 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
Reviews for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
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.
Smith's script is the funniest of this dimbulb summer, and the sharpest he has ever written.
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.
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.
One of the funniest comedies to come from a major studio in a long time.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is still one of the funnier comedies of the year.
The only positive aspect of Jay and Bob's idiocy is our knowledge that this is apparently their last hurrah.
All that's required to enjoy this crazily engaging comedy is to be somewhere near Smith's twisted Gen X wavelength.
The best-looking, best-scripted and funniest of Smith's pictures, it's also Smith's sharpest.
Like The Blues Brothers, this film has a ridiculous conceit that doesn't quite work.
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is less a satire of the crass product Hollywood hurls at us than a reflection of it.
Smith is a smart guy with more ideas than directorial skills, which accounts for the scattershot quality of his work.
If you can dig that kind of hilarious idiocy (and I know I can), then you're just the audience for this.
Unlike, say, American Pie 2 or the Scary Movie franchise, there's obvious intelligence at work behind the stupidity.
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