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Summary: Endlessly Entertaining
Review: I'd never seen any Kevin Smith movies before this one and I have to say that when I rented it, all I as expecting was another teen movie. But it's not. It's got the inevitable crude humor but it's hilarious. I bought the DVD thinking I'd watch it a couple more times thinking that the jokes would wear off after about watching it 3 times but it never does. The extra features on the DVD are amazing too. The gag real is good and so is the behind the scenes footage and the comedy central Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. I think there were something like 42 deleted scenes with intros from Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes and somtimes the producer and other people. The trailers are good (both the 5 or 6 J&SBSB ones and the ones for 40 Days and 40 Nights, Clerks, Clerks Uncensored, Chasing Amy, Dimension cutting Edge Films and the J&SBSB soundtrack spot). The commentary by Smith, Mewes and the producer: Scott Moiser is insightful an funny as well. This DVD is endlessly entertaining. It's a must have.
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Summary: a review of jay and silent bob strike back in 17 syllables
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Summary: Jay and Silent Bob rock
Review: This is one of my favorite movies ever. It is about two drug dealers who find out that there is a movie being made about their lives. Because of this people around the world are bad mouthing Jay and Silent Bob on the internet. Through logic only they can understand, Jay and Silent Bob aheaad off to Hollywood to stop the movie from being made, which will make people stop talking abouot them. This movie is funny from start to finish but, many of the jokes will have more meaning if you've seen the prequels; Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Clerks.
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Summary: Jay and Silent Bob rock
Review: This is one of my favorite movies ever... This movie is funny from start to finish but, many of the jokes will have more meaning if you've seen the prequels; Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Clerks.
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Summary: This DVD Rocks!
Review: This is one of the most entertaining dvds I own. It's packed with extra features. The commentaries with Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith before the deleted scenes are worth the price alone, those guys are hilarious even when they are trying not to be. The extra features are as much fun as the movie itself - you totally get your money's worth with this one. If you loved this movie, you've gotta pick up this dvd.
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Summary: Jay & Bob's Last Hurrah DVDeserves Better
Review: The following review only talks about the features found on the DVD, not the movie proper."Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" is an intentionally slapdash movie that deserves an intentionally slapdash DVD treatment. I'm just not sure that it needed an intentionally slapdash double-DVD treatment. Disc one features the movie, presented in all its crisp colourful glory. The commentary track that accompanies it, usually a solid staple of all Kevin Smith DVDs, is a real let down. Only Smith, producer Scott Mosier and Jay Mewes show up. And what they deliver could best be described as falling somewhere between a vapid Oscar speech and three drunk guys hanging on too long at the end of the party, well past the point when they were amusing. They basically play a game of "See how many Askewniverse members you can point out that the audience has never heard of." At one point near the end, Smith realizes that they're not doing much more than reading out the closing credits, and wisely says to the audience, "You could do this yourselves." And he's right. The only shining moment on the track is when Mewes excuses himself to go the washroom, and the second he's out the door, Smith and Mosier good-naturedly rag on him. When Mewes returns, they reassure him that they said nothing but niceties while he was gone. That's about the only highlight I can come up with. Also featured on disc one are a couple plugs promoting other entries in the Dimension Collector's Series. Disc two is heavy on the extras, most of which are amusing. The rest point only serve to point out the fact that there was a lot of good -- and a lot of puerile -- footage left on the cutting room floor. The deleted scenes, titled "The Secret Stash" in homage to the comic books store that Smith repeatedly plugs on all his DVDs, function just like the deleted scenes on the "Dogma" DVD: they're useless and pointless. Showing them now only proves why they weren't in the film in the first place. Most deadly are the unfunny Judd Nelson ad-libs, and Ben Affleck's non-sensically riffing on a scene funny enough on the page. However, a lot of hilarious Will Ferrell moments are featured (including a delicious improv scene where he and Jon Stewart throw sexually suggestive puns back and forth) proving that in an alternate universe, this would have been his movie. The treasures here are the intros that Smith and friends do, specifically, Jay Mewes' sweetly innocent comments. My two favourites: at one point, after Smith discusses the problems he had with G.L.A.A.D. before the movie came out, Jay says, with mock retribution, that he's "not going to send his cheque in this month" to them. Later, Smith self-debates whether Gus Van Sant's name rhymes with 'ant' or 'font', prompting Jay to comment, "Yeah, like do you say tomatoe or potatoe". You've gotta love this stoned-out guy! There's also an eight-minute long gag reel, which is of the pretty standard, "I can't stop laughing" variety (notable for, once again, Will Ferrell's hilarious straying from the script; this time he's teamed with Jason Lee, who can't keep a straight face). And you get not one but two behind-the-scenes featurettes. It's an exercise in redundancy, if you ask me. The first, produced by Comedy Central, is a rather tame affair. The second, produced specially for this disc, is not. It features the no-holds-barred language that is Smith's bread and butter. Two features highlight the work of Morris Day and the Time. The first features Smith and Mewes learning the band's relatively simple dance steps, before they are called on stage to end the film. Be warned: the sight of Kevin Smith attempting to dance may scare young children. The second feature is an exhaustive textual history of the band. If you ever have to write a paper on The Time, your research efforts will stop here. Finally, in the disc's graphical section, you get an on-set photo gallery, what seems like a hundred different possibilities for the film's poster, and comic versions of Jay and Bob. The storyboards section is a dubious inclusion, Smith not being noted for his visual flair. But it does show how wild the Scooby-Doo parody would have been if Smith had had his druthers. Although I laughed lovingly at the movie, despite its lack of desire to raise itself above the sophomoric, I was slightly disappointed by this DVD. It's a bloated effort, hardly up to the standard Smith and Co. have set by their other issues. Still, for the Smith completist (and who else would see "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" but a Smith completist), the disc is a necessary addition to your collection.
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Summary: Who cares!!
Review: On the positive, I am glad I rented this title before even considering wasting money on buying this stupid movie!! Although, money used in renting it could have been put to better use..oh well. What turned me off the most, besides the the plot (or lack there of), was the constant, consistant uses of the 'F' word, which was litterally used every other word.
I am not sure why I even bothered, except that I did like "Dogma". Jay and his sidekick, Silent Bob, discover that their likeness is being used in a Hollywood movie (which, in itself is stupid. One must assume Hollywood was either desperate to even want to make a film about those two, or, Hollywood simply makes anything and everything into a movie...or both), and venture out to Hollywood to make sure they get their share of the money (as if there'd be any...GET REAL!) It had it's moments...very few, but there were memerable moments. Both Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher (most remembered for the Star Wars trilogy) had breif cameo apperances; but, alas, not even the former Jedi Knight could have used the Force to save this movie. If this review even reaches just one soul, then it was worth writing. Please! Spend your hard-earned money on something more worth-while!!
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Summary: AMAZING
Review: This is Kevin Smith's best work. I loved every minute and all the special features. Work of art. It rocks no matter what anyone says ! Kevin Smith ROCKS !
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Summary: Utter immature garbage
Review: A friend of mine forced me to watch this movie and I hate to admit but I didn't laugh at all. Not even once. There were a lot of jokes about oral sex, marijuana, and homosexuals. Don't know about you, but even when I was 13 I didn't find those funny. Even the cameos from washed-up actors/comedians couldn't save this movie. The best part of the movie was when it was over. It's stupid, immature, and offensive. Please please don't waste your money on this low brow garbage!
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Summary: Could this be the end of the road for Jay and Silent Bob?
Review: First and most importantly, you have to be very well prepared to watch "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" if you want to have any hope of enjoying it to its full potential (assume, for the sake of argument, that this is both possible and desirable). Not only do you need to watch all of writer-director Kevin Smith's earlier films (to wit, "Clerks," "Mallrats," "Chasing Amy" and "Dogma"), but you also need to have seen "American Pie," watched enough "Dawson's Creek" to know why Dawson should drown Pacey in the creek, and at least recognize every film Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have made in the past decade (know the title and a one line synopsis of what the film is about). You need to do this for two reasons. First, it is the only way you can get all of the in-jokes in this film, which is heavily self-referential vis-a-vis the Smith oeuvre. In fact, you are better off using one hand to tick off the names of all the people from Smith's earlier films who are NOT in this movie (Stan "the Man" Lee immediately springs to mind). Second, you will need all this knowledge to be able to explain to the person next to you why Ben Affleck sometimes is playing himself, sometimes is playing somebody else (Holden McNeill from "Chasing Amy"), and sometimes is playing himself playing somebody else (Chuckie from "Good Will Hunting II: Hunting Season"). "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" is another one of those films where two guys go off to Hollywood to stop tinsel town from ruining their good reputations with a film. Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) have always played small but pivotal roles in Smith's films (e.g., the "Chasing Amy" speech in "Chasing Amy"), but this time they not only get to be ABOVE the title of the film, they get to be IN the title of the film. Now, I will readily admit that I have always been one of those who could take Jay and Silent Bob in small doses, which probably explains why my favorite bits in this film usually involve other characters. However, I will admit enjoying Jay's attempt to find a nonderogatory term for women. I have the feeling that this film is the swan song for Jay and Silent Bob. I mean, now that they have achieved titular glory, how can they go back to being the two man Greek chorus of Smith's prolonged "New Jersey Trilogy." Besides, with the appearance of virtually everyone who every appeared in a View Askew production (always good to see Joey Lauren Adams whether she is playing Alyssa Jones or not), you get the feeling the entire film is setting up a "Revenge of the Jedi" curtain call. Maybe Kevin Smith is turning a giant corner and about to start a new chapter in his life. Hey, it could happen. But I really get the feeling we have seen the last of Banky, Brody and the rest of the boys. Besides, Silent Bob speaks TWICE in this one, surely one of the signs that the end of days is nigh. Like most View Askew productions, "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" is rated R for nonstop crude and sexual humor, pervasive strong language, and drug content (Actually, I did not know that the MPAA could use a word like "nonstop" in its description of a film, but certainly the term applies to everything on their little list here). So just remember to go back over Smith's earlier films before you screen this one and save yourself a lot of headaches and avoid watching it with anyone who is going to demand you justify your enjoyment every other expletive out of Jay's mouth.
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