Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

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Summary: Jay and Silent Bob are back again and better than ever
Review: The dynamic duo travel from New Jersey to Los Angeles to stop a movie from being made about them because people made fun of them on an internet message board. But the film gets made, they get rich, they then find everyone who posted negative comments about them on the internet and beat them up to the song "How Many People Wanna Kick Some Ass?" by Stroke 9.

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Summary: A long time ago, in front of a convinence store far far away
Review: Jay and Silent Bob are the most funniest comedy duo's since Beavis and Butthead. It started with Chasing Amy. Then Mallrats and Clerks. Then Dogma, and finally it came down to this. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. The plot to this movie is J. and S.B are pissed off at the fact that they find out that Mirimax is making a movie about Jay and Silent Bob's alter ego's Bluntman and Chronic. The reason their pissed, theyre not getting a dime from the movie. So they go on a wild road trip to Hollywood, to stop Mirimax from making the movie. Along the way, they run into a $h!tload of celebrities including Ben Afleck, Carrie Fisher(she was the Nun.),Shean William Scott, Shanon Doherty, Matt Damon, Jason Biggs, James Van Der Beek and a $h!tload more. I recomend this movie to people who dont think that swearing is inmature, and people who like to name celebrity cameos(You'll be there for a while.). People with ears that are still bleeding from South Park Bigger, Longer and Uncut shouldnt watch this movie either. See U in the Future...

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Summary: Jay and Silent Bob take Hollywood, or try
Review: First of all, if you are a Kevin Smith fan then you will probably love this movie. If you liked all of Smith's films because of Jay and Silent Bob, then this is your ultimate movie collection DVD, bar none. Now, for the rest of us.

First of all, this movie comes with a prerequisite that is required to fully enjoy this movie. That's right, watch the earlier Smith movies, but trust me it helps with the jokes. That's because, although Smith likes to have fun with his movies, this time he just went all out. Parody after parody of his movies and, once the comic duo is in Hollywood, parodies galore of other people's movies. So, if you understand the parodies then you should enjoy the move a whole lot more.

However, I personally wanted something more from the movie than that, and felt disappointed when I saw it was just a long gag reel. Smith usually has a serious side to him, which keeps his movies winning awards, but this time he, deservedly, cut loose.

In my opinion though, Jay and Silent Bob, no matter how good the characters are for a few off an on laughs, probably should not be the basis for a whole movie. The humor was crude and way too slapstick, makes sense, but I still wanted more from it. With cameos galore, and spoofs upon spoofs, the Smith fan will love it, but I say to you the average movie viewer that it's decent, but don't get too excited, just a little.


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Summary: Favorite Kevin Smith Film
Review: I love this film for essentially two reasons. It is consistently funny and it it's utter lack of pretense. Not since Cheech and Chong have two slacker potheads made such beautiful screen music. Jason Mewes is a great comic actor, though it is debatable whether he's just essentially playing himself. Shannon Elizabeth is incredibly foxy as Jay's love interest. Will Ferrell is hilarious in his role as an inept U.S. Marshall. Many amusing cameos, including the acting-challenged Ben Affleck. This disc contains alot of deleted scenes with intros by Smith and Mewes. These cut scenes, for the most part, are funny enough for inclusion in the finished product. Rumor has it that because of a promise that Smith made to Mewes that if he got clean there would be another Jay and Bob movie. Apparently, Mewes has done just that and Smith is keeping his end of the bargain.

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Summary: the best comedy ever
Review: jay and silent bob strikes back is hilarious!the only 2 flaws are chris rock being allowed to be a racist when white people arent and george carlin still going on about oral sex.doent he ever shut up about that?the basic storyline is that the dude from chasing amy is making a movie based on comic book versions of jay and silent bob called chronic and bluntman.they are getting talked trash on all over the internet so the decide to go to hollywood and trash the movie.on thier way,jay tries to go oral on a nun,falls in love,gets a pet monkey and much much more!this is definately not for the kids.theres a lot of foul language not to mention that hate monger chris rock and the aids virus spreader,george carlin.its not part of a set per say but there are more jay and silent bob movies,kind of like cheech and chong.they are clerks,chasing amy,mall rats and dogma.its the best of the set id say.i think its pretty well likeable by all of a respectable age.there are a lot of lewd jokes,so sensitive people beware.actualy,if your not very desensitised i would beware.ive seen worse lewdness though.jays girlfriend ,justice,is HOT.theres her 3 friends that give them a ride.one is a real bitchy lesbian and her bitchy lesbian girlfriend.then theres funky looking hick chick.im trying to say they have million dollar bodies and food stamp faces.jay is insanely funny in this one.he deserves an award.i dont know whats on the horizon,but hopefully something since all thier movies are good.

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Summary: Sequel to Clerks and Chasing Amy. Very Funny
Review: Kevin Smith's `Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back' strikes me as being the closest Smith has come to doing a movie in the style of Woody Allen. Like Allen in many of his films, he uses the same basic character, in this case, the Jay and Silent Bob duo, in situations which parody some other major movie genre. The target in this film is both Star Wars and movies based on comic books.

The story is very much a continuation of the background situation in `Chasing Amy' where Ben Affleck and Jason Lee play two cartoonists who create a comic `dynamic duo', Bluntman and Chronic, based on Jay and Silent Bob and their exploits in the movies `Clerks', `Dogma', `Mallrats', and `Chasing Amy'. Many stock Smith characters and actors from these movies appears in this film, including Matt Damon appearing as himself, Jason Lee appearing as both the cartoonist and the owner of a local comics store who clues Jay and Silent Bob into the fact that Mirimax is making a movie based on the Bluntman and Chronic characters. Affleck also appears in two roles as cartoonist and himself, in a scene out of `Good Will Hunting' which he plays with Damon, with Gus Van Sant playing himself as director of same. Chris Rock from `Dogma' plays the director of the `Bluntman and Chronic' movie. Two `Star Wars' veterans, Mark Hamil and Carrie Fisher appear in brief roles to beef up the `Star Wars' theme. Even Alanis Morrisette appears briefly as God, based on her role in `Dogma'. About a half dozen other Smith chronies also appear here and there in cameos.

Before you write this off as a quirky exploitation of earlier Smith material plus a generous amount of larceny involving both George Lucas and Stan Lee material, just think about how many times you laughed at the latest toney romantic comedy like `Laws of Attraction' and `Irreconcilable Differences'. If much of the humor in this movie is `cheap', at least it's funny. Some of the other cameos are funny just by their showing up. Casting Jon Stewart as a news reporter is worth a chuckle just by the sheer obviousness of the casting. Will Farrell, of course, does a terrific job as a clueless wildlife marshal and Dietrich Bader does a good job playing the role of the keystone cops as the leader of the security forces at the mythical Miramax studios. As Smith points out in the commentary track, Miramax does not have a studio.

Running gags abound. The interaction between Jay and Silent Bob is one long gag. The only problem with that is that Silent Bob breaks silence twice, which may be once too often. This worked better in `Dogma' where he also spoke only twice, but with only two or three words each time. Smith copies Woody in having at least three sly bits of business where the cast looks knowingly at the audience, generally with the intention of wondering why we the audience are so dim as to be watching this very silly movie.

But that's the point. This is an intelligently silly movie, very much in the spirit of the Marx Brothers and Woody Allen of `Take the Money and Run' and `Sleeper', but not so dumbly silly as the three stooges or `Dumb and Dumber' or `Rolling Kansas'. It appeals to people who are `in the know' in much the same way as James Joyce's `Ulysses' or William Faulkner's `The Sound and the Fury' quote Homer and Shakespeare respectively. This makes the movie eminently watchable a second and third time, even before you get to the excellent Kevin Smith extras.

I think Smith does a better job than just about anyone else in providing good extras and good full-length movie commentary. This one is done with his constant partners in crime, producer Scott Moser and Jason Mewes.

This movie shares with all of Smith's movies a superficial vulgarity overlaid on a depth of sight, casting, and verbal gags that I challenge you to catch all on the first viewing. I would sooner own this DVD than just about any other comedy done by anyone other than Smith or the Woodman himself.