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Not that you’d necessarily pick up that there’s a hint of the writer talking there, what with the insane number of “dick and fart jokes” the movie throws at us. “Why in God’s name would I wanna keep writing about characters whose central preoccupation are weed and dick and fart jokes? I mean, ya gotta grow man.” Indeed, Smith has McNeill, the central character of Chasing Amy – perhaps his most person (and, in my opinion, best) work – whine about writing the same two stoner characters, time and time and time again. “Who would pay to see that?” At which point, everyone on screen awkwardly acknowledges the audience. “A Jay and Silent Bob movie?” Holden McNeill asks. Indeed, a large portion of the film’s more successful humour derives from that self-awareness. The latest in the Jay and Silent Bob cycle? “Bluntman and Chronic and their stupid alter egos Jay and Silent Bob only work in small doses, if at all,” an anonymous on-line “militant movie buff” writes about a fictious movie to star characters modelled on the pair. It’s a criticism Smith seems to accept, even including it in the movie itself. While Jay and Silent Bob work well in supporting roles, it seems perhaps a bit much to ask them to carry their own movie. Part of it is, perhaps, that this movie does clearly have a plot (a roadtrip to Hollywood), but I think it might also be a question of the characters involved. While the randomness of Kevin Smith’s original Clerks was a large part of the appeal, the mish-mash approach doesn’t work so well this time around. More a collection of random jokes set against an ever-shifting premise than a fleshed-out over-arching story, the film frequently fluctuates between brilliantly and subversively hilarious, and just a little bit awkward. The humour is hit and miss and film is certainly uneven but it's also lots of fun if you're in the market for a couple of dags, 227 f's (count them!) and dozens of fart jokes.Jay and Silent Bob is a movie that runs hot and cold from scene to scene. An American right wing web site apparently took the time and trouble to count 227 f words (which is very amusing in itself). Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back is vulgar. Many previous stars pop up including Ben Afleck who with Matt Damon pointedly tell us in an aside to the camera exactly why they're in the film.
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The movie is full of running jokes, often from Kevin Smith's previous films, and also references to Star Wars (Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher appear).
The women in this film are mainly represented by four Charlies Angels types (Shannon Elizabeth, Eliza Dushku, Ali Larter and Jennifer Schwalbach) who are self acknowledged tough, leather clad, thin girl stereotypes, although one of them unaccountably falls for Jay! She's a pretty stupid stereotype I'd say. But he's fearless and certainly good for many laughs.
He's the "Clit Master" and vulgar in the extreme. Jay is utterly self obsessed and abusive even to his close friend Silent Bob. Smith certainly doesn't aim for intellectual heights, but as well as being often very funny, the Jay character is fascinating. Kevin Smith writes and directs these masterpieces for the Mall deprived and for the more discerning cinema goer. So is Silent Bob (Kevin Smith), but unlike Jay who never shuts up, Silent Bob doesn't say much. Jay (Jason Mewes) is a vulgar, very non PC, drug dealing hang about. Jay and Silent Bob were first delivered in Clerks, then Mall Rats, Chasing Amy and Dogma.
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