Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Review

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*** stars

Saturday, August 18, 2001 (R)

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is, sadly enough the final film in the New Jersey Chronicles (with Jay and Silent Bob) series for Kevin Smith. Every Smith film has humored me to the last muscle; left me feeling better and wishing I had a New Jersey life-style. Clerks has to remain my favorite in the list of films for its very realistic portrayal of early adult hood and employment. I can easily say that there isn’t five seconds that go by where you don’t let out a burst of laughter in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Most comedic scenes in this film interconnect with characters from all previous Smith films (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma). In this film the funniest appearances had to be Dante and Randall from Clerks. In the beginning of the film we meet up with Jay and Silent Bob at their convenience store hang out where they get a restraining order, removed from for selling pot and pissing off the customers.

Their journey begins moments later where they meet up with Brodie (Jason Lee), who’s character last appeared in Mallrats. Brodie now owns a comic book shop and tells Jay and Silent Bob about the film production of “Bluntman and Chronic”, which are Jay and Silent Bob’s comic book alter ego’s. Their plan now is to visit Hollywood, stop the film from getting made and meet up with every Smith movie character on the way. This may not be the best film your going to see this fall but it may be the funniest, crudest, and coolest film about two stoners with a plan.

Let’s just say that Kevin Smith has done a pretty good job with Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. I never felt the movie got to slow, on the contrary, this movie keeps building up to an awesome comic climax which includes Mark Hammil. There is one thing that didn’t occur to me once while watching this movie was the controversy surrounding the gay community. If you haven’t heard of Kevin Smith or if you don’t like Kevin Smith for any reason, don’t spend your seven dollars on this film. I’m afraid to say this but you will enjoy this film a lot better if you have seen Kevin’s past work.