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Summary: Funny movie!
Review: Just like everyone else who seen Mallrats when jay and silent bob first showed up on screen this first thing i thought was "how come these guys don''t have a movie on themselves". Well, a few years later it's here and it's not disappointing at all. It shows them at their best and the blabbering from jay is solid. Good movie for the Kevin Smith fans out there.
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Summary: funny must see movie
Review: i own this dvd and think it is great the movie is very funny and the exras are just as funny as the main feature like comedy centrals real comedy and mini movies by jasan smith
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Summary: A Perfect Send Off
Review: While this isn't the philosophical milestone that Dogma is, or the emotional masterpeice Chasing Amy is, it is a satisfying movie nonetheless. The characters of Jay and Silent Bob had to be sent off somehow. Here, they are sent off in grand style. It is only appropriate that they take their final bow in a movie that is just plain fun. No message. No Oscar worthy performances. Just a lot of fun involving everyone's favorite Dynamic Duo. In a way this is like a big 'ol Christmas gift for long time Kev-heads. While it was advertised as being funny for the newbie (I paraphrase) I can see how a lot of the jokes would only make sense if you've seen all of the previous movies. This isn't necessarily a problem. This is for the faithful. And if you're not one and you want to see this movie, you'll go see the others which will get you into the View Askewniverse. Its a win-win situation. Don't expect anything here other than fun and a great send-off. You won't be disapointed.
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Summary: .... -- Buy it Now!
Review: This film wipes .... with the concepts of good taste, logic, coherent scripting, and character development. It's a total lunatic joyride as Jay and Silent Bob go in search of the guy who sold their cartoon characters to the movies without telling them. The resulting road trip gives them plenty of opportunity to make an endless number of ... jokes, fart jokes, sex jokes, etc, etc, etc. Jason Mewes basically carries the whole film on his back and he's more than up to the challenge as a clueless slack who's endless string of profanities leaves one laughing out loud. If you can criticize this flick it can mean only one thing-- you're taking it waaaaaay too seriously! This film is funny with a capital F.
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Summary: Kevin Smith's worst film, but not totally without merit.
Review: Kevin Smith has had a pretty varied career in terms of quality product. His first feature Clerks, which is my own personal favourite of his and something that I think he's never matched since, was brilliant because it was razor sharp, superbly written and actually quite insightful. It tapped into a gen-x underside to small town life, made up of people who are too intelligent to waste away their time in low-rent, boring jobs but find that's what they choose to do rather than make the attempt to really better themselves. More than anything it demonstrated that you don't NEED special effects and egotistical A-list stars to make a good movie, you just need raw talent and ingenuity. Mallrats is much more of a fan-boy picture. It's funny, hilarious at times, but the humour felt somehow stretched, as though Kevin had simply been asked to do more of the same on a bigger budgeted, studio outing with better actors. It's really just an escapist, feel good romantic comedy. Chasing Amy on the other hand, made for only about 250,000 dollars, was superb, a funny yet poignant and acutely observed film about contemporary sexuality and relationships. Dogma: an interesting failure, good ideas and intelligence let down by excess and sloppy direction.All of which leads you to conclude that Kevin Smith is a genuinely good filmaker, but his talents lie best in writing, and if he must direct, then he should limit himself to low-maintenance, understated indie movies. Give him a huge budget and he tries to cram in too much, too many visuals and too many inconsequential details. He doesn't have any real sense of cinema aesthetics or mise-en-scene which means his films can look badly shot and put together. But he's a very funny guy, with a knack for realistic and erudite dialogue and situations. It's a shame therefore that as far as some people were concerned his major contribution to contemporary cinema was the creation of Jay and Silent Bob. Many have noted that the guys are fine in small amounts, as comic characters designed to temper the more normal people we meet in Kevin's films (lets face it, they could have been left out of Chasing Amy without any major repercussions) but too much of them and we begin to see that they really can't carry 90 minutes of screen time on their own. Not that they're forced to. At least Kevin managed to secure the talents of many quality actors for this film, including cameos from just about everyone who's been in a previous View Askew production: Chris Rock, Jason lee, George Carlin, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Joey Lauren Adams, Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Carmen Lee etc. He even manages to dredge up Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill for a couple of scenes (Mark Hamill has to have, amusingly, a onscreen caption with his name when he appears, due to the fact that he hasn't done anything noteworthy for about 20 years and is therefore unrecognisable to Star Wars fans). Unfortunatly that's one of the movies most signifigant drawbacks. It's very much an insider film, full of self-referencing and in-jokes from other films by the director, and if you haven't seen these movies then you might be a bit non-plussed at times. Then again, if you haven't seen these movies you're unlikely to be rushing to see this one. People say he made it for the fans, and that's fair enough, but I think the fans deserve better. That's the second problem and probably, now I come to think of it, a more important one: the movie isn't actually very funny. Oh it has its moments, it is Kevin Smith after all, but nothing like the volume of quality gags we saw in any of the earlier films. There's an amusing Scooby Doo parody which, to be fair, gets more laughs in about 5 minutes than the recent feature did in an hour and a half. There's Jay's impassioned speech on behalf of the Coalition for the Liberation of Itinerant Treedwellers (geddit?). There's even a very welcome 'Good Will Hunting' sequel: 'Hunting Season', and it's nice to see Ben and Matt send themselves up so freely. But a lot of the movie grates. Jay isn't a marvellous character to listen to for over an hour, some of the material is obviously recycled from the comic books (which fans will presumably have read), then there's a lot of redundant ... jokes and profanity just for the sake of being profane i.e. that swearing alone is somehow inherently amusing. It's not a total disaster, and the quickfire approach to the gags means that while little is set up or developed sufficiently to make the jokes really funny, if a line or visual hook falls flat, there'll be another one along in about 15 seconds, so you ought to be able to find something amusing in there. By the way the film, I noticed, came under a lot of fire from certain pressure groups due to accusations of obscenity, homophobia etc, but if you actually watch it you'll realise that it in no way condones anything Jay says; he's like a five year old with tourrettes and it's funny because he has no idea how stupid and offensive he comes off. Flawed, but Kevin Smith is now working on a more mature and intellectualy challenging project, so hopefully this kind of low-brow, juvenile slapstick is behind him now.
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Summary: For Kevin Smith Fans
Review: I really liked the movie. Lots of self referential gags make it a must to have seen the other Kevin Smith movies. This is a sort of formula road picture with a couple of characters I have really grown to love. This is in the same class as movies like Strange Brew which take familiar characters and give them a simple plot line to follow. No great surprises but surprisingly witty in parts. This is a straight low brow comedy with none of the controversy of Dogma. If you are looking for the somewhat awkward but brilliant dialogue from some of Kevin Smiths other films you may be disappointed, but as a straight buddy road movie it delivers all the laughs.
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Summary: Kevin smith has lost all his charm
Review: Kevin Smith's four previous films were awesome I enjoyed all them and I own all of them, however I was horribly dissaponted by this movie for several reasons. The movie consints of stupid one liners, lame visuals, several teeny bopping guest stars, and this movie went over the top with crude language that it just insults the viewers intelligence. Some good points of the film were the performances of will ferral and chris rock which were the only parts of the movie that I thought were actually funny. Unless you are between the ages of 12-14 or a hard core stoner avoid this flick and pick up one of kevin smith's other movies.
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Summary: Keep silent, Bob....
Review: I've never imagined Kevin Smith could go so low... All this foul-mouthed movie is bad beyond description. It's not even funny!! I rank it alongside SCARY MOVIE 2 as some of the worst movies I've ever seen... At least you can say Smith is a honest guy when, in one of the scenes, a character says, looking at the camera: "Who would pay to see something so bad...?"
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Summary: Classic
Review: This movie is great, a little obscene but none the less an instant classic, however i would of gave it five stars if it were Jay and Sponge bob!!!
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Summary: Not the best of the series but...
Review: While i feel Dogma was the best, this Kevin Smith film is very entertaining. I like how the end had cameos of all the charcters (almost all) from previous films. I did enjoy when Jay & Silent Bob beat the [pooh] out of all the little kids who thought they were so smart and posted comments on the internet. HA HA HA HA. I think this could have been better for a sendoff, but if you are a fan of the series you should enjoy it
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