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Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back
on DVD (2001)
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| Starring: |
Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Ben Affleck, Jason Biggs, Matt Damon, Shannen Doherty, Shannon Elizabeth, Carrie Fisher, Joey Lauren Adams, Eliza Dushku, Alanis Morissette, Chris Rock |
| Director: |
Kevin Smith |
| Studio: |
WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time: |
104 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| Genres: |
Comedy |
| Languages: |
English |
| Released: |
09/09/2002
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Brief synopsis of Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back
Writer-director Kevin Smith's fifth and final installment of his New Jersey Chronicles (which began in 1994 with the breakout, low-budget comedy CLERKS) is a chance for scene-stealing, foulmouthed stoner Jay (Jason Mewes) and his taciturn sidekick/"hetero life mate" Silent Bob (Smith) to carry their own movie. When comic store mogul Brodie (Jason Lee, reprising his MALLRATS role) informs Jay and Silent Bob that a movie featuring their comic book alter egos, Bluntman and Chronic, is about to be made, the duo demands a cut from the comic's creator, Holden (Ben Affleck, in his CHASING AMY role). Holden explains that his ex-partner, Banky (Lee again) has sold them out, and shows them some angry Internet posts from Bluntman and Chronic fans. Fearing for their reputations, Jay and Silent Bob embark on a cross-country odyssey to Hollywood to stop the film. En route, they run afoul of a Charlie's Angels-type jewelry thief ring--one of whom, Justice (Shannon Elizabeth) takes a liking to Jay--an orangutan, a Federal Wildlife Marshall (Will Ferrell), and Miramax studio security. Smith's fond farewell to his intertwined Jersey characters is a lovingly crude, broad comedy rife with celebrity cameos, slapstick movie spoofs, and clever jabs at Hollywood.
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Radio Times
Having created his own loveable suburban slacker universe in the “New Jersey trilogy” of Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy, writer/director Kevin Smith seemed to have got it out of his system. But the cameo presence of his two recurring characters — dope-smoking, jive-talking Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith himself) — in religious road movie Dogma hinted otherwise. And now they have their own vehicle: an indulgent, dim-witted odyssey from Jersey to Hollywood where the two scatalogical scuzzballs plan to sabotage a movie based on comic-book alter egos Bluntman and Chronic. Unfortunately for an audience unfamiliar with Smith's oeuvre, the in-jokes come so fast that a detailed knowledge is required. Otherwise it's a fair-to-middling gross-out comedy elevated to high satire status by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Mark Hamill and many others sending themselves up relentlessly.
New York Times
"...JAY AND SILENT BOB does have some tickling good notions....There's also some shockingly funny stuff....And not since the days of Mr. Hope and SON OF PALEFACE have so many performers appeared as themselves, or made fun of themselves..."
Los Angeles Times
"...There are lots of hilarious, off-the-wall incidents, and the film has a likable, freewheeling spirit to go with its knockabout plot..."
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