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Summary: Can't Go Wrong With Kevin Smith!
Review: Another brilliant work by Kevin Smith. However, there is one aspect to this movie to be aware of...the more of the other movies you've seen in the series (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, the funnier this movie gets. There are millions of tie-ins to this "Jersey" story that exists in some part in every movie. Also included on this DVD are a TON of deleted scenes, great commentary, and even a couple music videos. This is a must have for Kevin Smith fans and for those who have no idea who Kevin Smith is.
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Summary: I hope it is not the end..
Review: "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" is the last episode of Kevin Smith series.Smith says this is the end and there will be no more movies including the characters of Clerks,Mallrats,Chasing Amy and Dogma..And no more Jay and Silent Bob..I hope this won't be the truth.Jay and Silent Bob find out that there is a movie being made about them which will ruin their "good names" so they decide to go to Holywood and stop the movie from getting made.This is the basic plot but nothing will ever mean anything to you if you haven't seen the previous movies and I think you must see all of them.Some people think Kevin Smith movies are all about stupid sex jokes but I strongly disagree.They include some of the smartest dialogue ever heard on movies,and some of the best pop culture criticism.Anyway,if you know about Smith,you don't need my opinion.So I won't tell more.. The DVD,like all other ViewAskew movies,is a treasure chest when it comes to extras and all of them are very interesting. No more need to explanation..See all Kevin Smith movies..And if you don't like them....well you should ..
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: This is a great addition to the Jay & Silent Bob collection. I recommend watch clerks and mall rats before seeing this so you will get more of the jokes. We better not say anything bad on this "internet" message board because we dont want them coming after us. Definately worth a watching!
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Summary: Gut splitting...
Review: This is a hilarious movie. Kevin Smith is an awesome film maker. Jay and Silent Bob kick the proverbial butt in this film. I thought this movie was kind of like a combination of "Strange Brew", "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" and "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". Stars galore. Star Wars galore. Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher. Both playing roles they were meant for?! Will Ferrel is just too good at what he does. And Jay. Jay is da man. Pimpin. Note to Buffy fans. Both Riley and Faith are in this movie. A must have. Kevin Smith's best.
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Summary: Excellent buy for DVD!
Review: "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" is a hilarious movie by itself. Some of the jokes are inside, and it would probably help to see the other Kevin Smith directed films. But I hadn't seen any of the other movies except "Dogma" before seeing this, and the movie still made sense to me. However, I did go back and see "Clerks". The movie itself, I'd probably only give 4 stars. Jason Mewes, "Jay", is very charismatic and funny, and in this movie he has most of the dialogue. Whenever the other characters are on the screen by themselves the movie isn't as funny. I also am not a very big fan of parody bits, and there is a lot of parody. But if you like that, you'll be very happy with bits from "Star Wars", "The Fugitive", "Charlie's Angels", and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." I really did enjoy Jay's "Planet of the Apes" bit. The film is also loaded with celebrity cameos. More than any other movie you will ever see. Chris Rock, as always, is hilarious as he yells at white people for 10 minutes. Many of the cameos are people from the previous films Kevin Smith has directed.
One of the reasons this movie is so entertaining is because of the editing. Many of the scenes that weren't as entertaining and that dragged on were deleted from the final cut. Which makes the movie move along at a real nice pace. All the deleted scenes can be seen on the DVD as extras.
The DVD extras are what make me push my review to 5 stars. This is one of those DVDs where you will want to see every single extra and listen to all the commentary during the movie. There are nearly 50 deleted scenes, and each one is given a short introduction and explanation by Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes. You definetly want to see why this movie was rated NC-17 intially. All the extras are why 2 discs are needed. I'm not going to list all the extras, I'm sure you can find that somewhere else. Just believe me, it is definitly something you want to own yourself.
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Summary: "Jay and Silent Bob only work in small doses, if at all."
Review: Unlike Kevin Smith's previous film, the religiously and deliciously satirical "Dogma," his latest venture, "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," turns out to be nothing more than one of the most incredibly mind-numbing, drool-inducing movies to come along since... well, since... hmm, guess this one hits an all-time low. A non-stop vomitorium of "one note jokes that only stoners laugh at," this is, without a doubt, one of cinema's worst movies, if not its most idiotic (and yes, I'm aware that "Scary Movie 2" is still out there). I came into the movie expecting nothing less than a ridiculous concept and hammy acting, and that's exactly what I got, but with less comedic genius than "There's Something About Mary," and less appealing gross outs than the "American Pie" franchise. The story (if you can consider it as such) focuses on potheads Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (director Kevin Smith), two bumbling idiots who wander around aimlessly in search of a better movie. They discover that a comic book for which they were the inspiration is being made into a movie, and they set out for Hollywood to score some "proverbial phat cash." Along the way, they encounter various offbeat characters, too offbeat, if you ask me. Unlike some of Smith's previous material, "Jay and Silent Bob" is strictly for Smith followers, and even devout worshippers may find much of the material completely lacking. Smith bows down to the lowest of all gross-outs and toilet humor, injecting every two seconds of the film with constant mutterings of... ...Nearly every gag in the film has a gay context, from Jay's ongoing quips about Silent Bob's sexual orientation, to their masquerading as a homosexual couple to evade police in search of a stolen orangutan. Saturday Night Live alumnus Will Ferrell has perhaps the only funny line in the film in that particular scene, but that's about the extent of the movie's comedic potential. In the midst of the profanities and homosexual putdowns, we are given two of the most incredibly banal characters in recent movie history. To borrow a phrase from the film, "Jay and Silent Bob are stupid characters-- a couple of stoners who spout [off] catch phrases like a third-rate Cheech and Chong, or Bill and Ted." 'Nuff said. There is some quiet potential at rest here. As they hitch-hike their way to Hollywood to stop production on the Bluntman and Chronic movie, which is being produced by Miramax, the film pokes several satirical and limber jabs at its own production company, parodying everything from the "Scream" trilogy to "Good Will Hunting." Many of Kevin Smith's regulars make cameo appearances, while actors like Jason Biggs and James van der Beek poke fun at their characters from "American Pie" and "Dawson's Creek." I must say, to see the potential in these later scenes give way to the ill-fated conundrum of filth and disgust makes for a real downer of a second half. Not that the first half is any better by any rate. Maybe I'm being too critical of the film's weaknesses, and should just go along with the joke. But the joke is not funny. The movie is not funny. Unlike much of Kevin Smith's films, "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" is the true love-it-or-hate-it film of his career. To borrow another well-worded phrase from the film, "Jay and Silent Bob only work in small doses, if at all."
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Summary: Jay and Not so Silent Bob...
Review: If you have ever witnessed the View Askew group as their own, you'd realize the tremendous fun they have on every movie... Jay and Silent Bob strike back is a fine example. Basic plot involves two phenomenal characters: motor mouth Jay and silent...silent Bob. Throughout five view askew films, they have made history with their comedic bantering. This movie is homage to all other films as continuous references are made to them (namely Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Good Will Hunting, and even a little bit of Dogma). So if you haven't seen any of those movies, certain dialogues may seem odd or out of context. Many old characters are returning, and some are introduced. This is what this movie is essentially about: a huge reunion of famous stars gathering together to honour two normally very discreet characters. Vulgarity, controversial humour, sex and drug jokes; this is what view askew is about. Should anyone look for intelligence in this film, it would be the strategic build-ups to comedic satire, the crafty delivery of actors poking fun at themselves, and the visually stunning changes of scenery ("I hate how Hollywood is so fake"). Moments of humility, self-realization, and laugh-out-in-your-face punch lines; this is View Askew in one movie.
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Summary: The best "INSIDE" movie ever made!!!!!! Snoogans
Review: This is one of the funniest movies that came out in 2001 in the theatres. Kevin Smith made this movie not for the general audience but for THE FANS!! The references and inside jokes from Kevin Smith's other movies (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma) make up a lot of this movie. If you have not seen these movies you will not get some of the jokes. You don'tneed to see the other movies to enjoy the movie but it is highly reccommended. If you are planning on buying this DVD I highly recommend picking up, at least, Clerks and Chasing Amy as well as these two get quite a few references in the movie. Plus they are the two best movies in the View Askew series. The special features on this two-disc set are like the other View Askew discs......AWESOME!!!!! The deleted scenes, outtakes and many other features are worth every second you waste watching it. And Smith is always known to hide some interesting easter eggs in his discs and this one is no different. Even the film commentary is entertaining. Ever since Bill and Ted's Execellent Adventure, every movie studio has tried time and time again to come up with their own version of Bill and Ted and everytime they have failed. I don't think Kevin Smith was trying to come up with the best comedic duo since Bill and Ted but Jay and Silent Bob are a comedic pair like no other. The best since Bill and Ted!! In my mind even better since there is intelligence hidden in the deepest and darkest of toilet humor. So stop wasting time listening to me go on and on about how great this movie is and BUY THE DVD NOW!!!!!
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Summary: this movie was great
Review: jay and silent bob srike back is quality footage.It is a movie that you will want to watch again and again.This is a must have movie.
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Summary: Kevin Smith just can't win...
Review: In summation, the movie is a 90-minute long in-joke, being that if you haven't seen Smith's four previous movies, this one might not make a whole lot of sense. Jay and Bob get booted away from their stomping grounds at the quickstop, Clerks, and are informed by their old pal Brody, Mallrats, that the rights to the comic book based on them written by Banky Edwards and Holden McNeil, Chasing Amy, has been sold and is being made into a big hollywood movie starring those miramax lynchpins Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Dogma. Our heroes decide that to set things right, they must travel out to L.A. and stop the movie from getting made. How's that for a plot! Once again, Kevin Smith has crafted a hilarious, well written fun film. And once again, it seems that he has caught a large amount of flack for doing so. Critics dismissed it. Mainstream viewers largely ignored it. Gay and lesbian groups protested it. Granted, the characters curse way too much, but is it too much to ask for people to sit back and just laugh and have a good time anymore? Smith, of course is no stranger to problems of this sort. All of his films so far have ticked off one group or another, talons bared, if for no good reason than to pick on the odd man out, a filmmaker whos virtues lie outside the " must see t.v. " crowd. I don't think that Michael Bay has this problem. Jay and Job is no Pearl Harbor, thank goodness, but visualy speaking, Smith has grown in spades, although I never had a problem with his visual style in the first place. The 2:35:1 aspect ratio , other rwise known as "scope" , is used here as it was in Dogma is used to perfect effect, with the frame being filled to the full extent of what is required for any given scene. This movie is just a big carton. Ever seen one of those? After the problems with his last movie, I think Smith need to take a break in a lighter direction for this one. If you know Smith's love of dvd, you know what to expect in terms of extras. The commentay's not as good this time around, but there's plenty else to find..., music videos, trailers and internet spots and of course deleted scenes, two of which are worth the price of the disc alone. If you don't like Smith and his slackers, go buy something that won an oscar. If, however, you do like him, do yourself a favor and buy this movie. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll spill juice on your good pants!
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