It's the best
smile you'll get through the whole movie
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Jay and Silent
Bob Strike Back is a crude production that relies heavily on low-grade
humour, spoof material and big names. No I didn't like it.
Dan Sinclair
This is writer-director Kevin Smith's fifth and final instalment
of his New Jersey Chronicles. Others in the series include Clerks,
Mallrats and Chasing Amy.
The film centres on two deadbeats, a foul-mouthed wacky baccy
fan, Jay (Jason Mewes), and his near silent sidekick Silent Bob
(Smith).
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| Can you
guess what's in the box? |
When they discover
that the comic featuring their alter egos, Bluntman and Chronic,
is to be turned into a movie they demand a cut from the comic's
creator.
However, he informs them that he has sold the rights to his former
business partner who is at present filming the movie in Hollywood.
Riled by some irate internet posts defaming their pulp versions
Jay and Silent Bob fear for their reputation and decide to stop
the film.
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| Can Bob
stay silent for much longer? |
We follow their
exploits that take them on a far from straight forward road trip
to Hollywood.
The film shares similarities with Beavis and Butthead, Leaving
Las Vegas and a host of spoofs. There's the inseparable pair, the
influence of drugs and the repetitive reworking of jokes.
From the offset the Jason Mewes character spews out expletives
and the humour focuses on indigestion gags and the imitation of
sexual acts.
The success of Kevin Smith's previous films Dogma and Chasing Amy
pull in an all-star cast.
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| Tell me
again about the Force |
Cameos include
Carrie Fisher as a nun, Ben Affleck as his character in Chasing
Amy and himself, Jason Biggs as the guy who sticks his weener into
an American Pie and cannot live it down and many more...
Get over the language and the script does have its highlights -
Hitching a lift and sharing a doobey with Scrappy and Scooby Doo,
offering more to Carrie Fisher than she ever got in Star Wars and
end scenes where the pair take revenge on their internet tormentors.
With the proposed relaxation of the drug laws in Britain it could
be said that this movie is well timed. The film even features Afroman's
No. 1 track 'Because I Got High', about the dangers of smoking cannabis.
However, the idea of all dope smokers being bums is as outdated
as the film's spoof material. Surely it is time to move on from
this genre.
With its toilet humour the film may appeal to a youth market. But
it's 18 rating will mean that it will miss a large chunk of its
potential audience.
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