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Summary: If you like fart jokes, sex jokes and overuse of the f-word
Review: Watching this, I was reminded of all the crazy movies I loved as a kid - classic laughfests of the like of "Strange Brew" and "Still Smokin'." This is the same sort of gross humor, pothead sillyness except it at times goes a little over the top. Of course, maybe I think that because now I'm 34 and not 12. I do have to give Kevin Smith thumbs up for the use of his "friends" and the Ben and Matt scene in "Good Will Hunting 2" is one for the ages. If you like fart jokes, sex jokes, overuse of the f-word and otherwise just pointless humor, then you'll love this. Everyone else - consider yourself warned.
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Summary: Beautiful...That's the only way to describe it!
Review: When I saw CLERKS for the first time some years ago I instantly loved Kevin Smith's ability to tell a story. I thought, at the time, that he like so many others, would lose his ability with his success. Man, am I glad I was wrong. The deleted scenes on this DVD are wonderful, especially being able to see some classic stars play around with taboo subjects. Bravo to all involved.
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Summary: Rude, crude and very funny
Review: I could be called a casual fan of Kevin Smith's work having seen Clerks, Dogma and Mallrats. I was not only surprised by "JSBSB" but literally on the floor laughing my rear off. Crude, stupid and rife with jokes about homosexuality, "Jay and Silent Bob..." is also a very funny movie. There's no message inherent in the film and the plot such as it is exists as a platform for Jay and Silent Bob to perform. This is a guilty pleasure much along the same lines as Cheech and Chong's "Up in Smoke" and "Southpark the Movie". If you're easily offended don't bother, but otherwise prepare yourself for quite a funny experience.
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Summary: Jay and Silent Bob is hilarious
Review: Jay and Silent Bob Strike back is extremely funny!! I have never seen the previous movies with them in it, it was recommended to me by a friend to see it, I really didn't expect much, but when I saw it I couldn't stop laughing. Jay (Jason Mewes) represents the person thats trapped inside all of us to an extent. Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) also represents the quietness in all of us trying to get out. This movie is Hilarious and I recommend it to anybody who likes to laugh!
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Summary: Foul-mouthed and horrible
Review: I don't mind an occasional foul-mouthed remark from characters in a film but this film takes profanity to new lows. What's worse is that this film is only marginally funny as many of the jokes simply fail to deliver. Unless you enjoy "comedy" geared towards...enraptured teenagers, please stay away from this atrocity.
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Summary: Why Kevin? Why?
Review: Kevin Smith rocked the 90's indie film world with his low budget, low-brow, laugh-out-loud slacker film "Clerks", thus introducing us to his "View Askewniverse"" He follwed the film's success with the critical as well as B.O. train wreck, "Mallrats." His endearing tale of love and homosexuality won back the critics again, with his bittersweet "Chasing Amy." Then Smith truley earned his wings as one of the top filmakers of the 90's with his controversial "Dogma," which finished the decade off with a bang.
All four of these films in the "New Jersey Trilogy" featured the often silly, usually crude, dimwitted stoner duo, Jay and Silent Bob. Now since these two comodic clowns had been Smith's trademark supporting characters in his previous films, Kevin (seemingly against his will) must have felt obligated by his fans to cast them in leading roles. Thus, the creation of his worst effort to date, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
The story, which I'm sure you already know by now, features Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith) in a road trip buddy vehicle en route for Hollywood in the efforts to stop "the Bluntman and Chronic" film with their comic book character likeness from being made. The rest ins't even worth mentioning.
The thing that is lacking from this film is the cutting edge, witty-but-crude diologue that Smith is so richly famous for.(Smith is an avarage director, at best and he's gone on record in admitting so.)
Instead of the contruction, and the ultimate deconstruction of a Dante Hicks or Holden McNeil, we get an endless barage of fart jokes, stoner gags, and homophobic dialogue that would make Archie Bunker cringe. Not even the usually funny (but not in this film) Will Ferrell or the rest of the endless supply of celeb. cameos can save this dump of a picture (What the hell is Jules Asner doing in a Kevin Smith film anyway?!?!)
"Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" was supposed to be the last harrah for two characters that, long ago, recieved more on-screen time then they ever deserved. To me, it felt like Smith was just putting a couple of old dogs to sleep and shutting up his ever-demanding fanbase in the process.
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Summary: The worst of the five, but still watchable
Review: I'm a big Kevin Smith fan, with my favorites probably being, oddly enough, Mallrats and Dogma. And while each of those movies has their own shtick, one perfecting stupid yinzer funny and the other being a truly witty comedy, Jay and Silent Bob take us nowhere after a promising first fifteen minutes of film. Too many junior high jokes for me, and you also get the feeling in this movie that Kevin Smith really begins to take himself seriously and believe all the hype, and you think that he may be laughing all the way to the bank. I'd like to see him get back to what he did in the other movies and leave the acting to the actors like Jason Lee and others. All the above being said, this movie still has enough truly funny one liners and scenes to keep us coming back for more. Probably five/ten years from now we'll be able to look back at this movie and look at it as a part of a collection of Smith works that had to occur.
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Summary: Great, with some bad points
Review: This movie was okay, but could have been alot better. Great acting, other than Jason Mewes. Jason's humour just got way out of hand, and really disgusting. Kevin Smith as Silent Bob was the best choice out of all the good guys. Shannon Elizabeth was so great during American Pie, then turns on this good girl routine here, and just gets really annoying, cheasiest ending. Ben Affleck was okay, but he's not really as good of an actor as people say he is. He was good in Changing Lanes, but that's it! Chris Rock was one of the best ones here, but he only had one scene, which shouldn't have got him on the front cover. Matt Damon is just like Ben Affleck, only worse. Eliza Dushku is the only one besides Rock and Smith who actually has character, and she's the reason why I watched this movie. She was sexy, evil and delightful to watch. Will Ferrel was another one who had style, and was so funny. Diedrich Bader(Drew Carey Show) was alot like Ferrel's character, funny and had some style. Overall, here's how the movie rated, each out of 5: Plot- 3 Needs alot of work
Acting- 4.5 Alot of good actors here
Characters- 4 Silent Bob says it all, that sounded funny
Cheapness- 2.5 This was really cheesy
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Summary: sweet! You must see this movie.
Review: Youll laugh till yur sides ake. Bongggggggggggggggg!
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Summary: The worst Smith movie to date.
Review: I'm a film snob, but I love, neh, adored "Chasing Amy" as an insightful look into relationships and second chances, something that Smith did very well, but "Jay and Silent Bob Strke Back" was a step down from even "Mallrats." Filled with mindless jokes, Smith is at his all time low in this movie. This movie revolves around the contrived story of a Bluntman and Chronic movie being made by Mirimax, and the ever artistic Jay and Silent Bob try to stop those evil executives from making a movie. Kevin Smith is the master of "[unclean]" jokes and weaves them into a manic yarn of profanity that Red Foxx would be proud of, but in all seriousness Jay and Silent Bob cannot carry a movie. Their supporting roles in "Clerks", "Mallrats", "Chasing Amy," and "Dogma" fit them well because they don't fit in. The whole point of Jay and Silent Bob is to clash with the main characters, but with them as the main characters, their is nobody to clash with and subsequent bad, humilianting jokes insue. Making cameos in this movie are super sexy Shannon Elizabeth, comedian George Carlin, Daily Show host John Stewart and SNL Alumni Will Farell...oh yeah, you can't forget the most famous actor to come out of Smith's movies:Ben Afleck. ....
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