Post by StevePulaski on Aug 26, 2010 20:19:29 GMT -5
Jay and Silent Bob with Holden McNeil in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
Rating: ★★★
Jay and Silent Bob turn there jokes made by the Quick Stop into a full movie in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. I consider this the last, original and yet superb Kevin Smith movie. While some of his later work impresses me, he seems now to do what he thinks would sell rather than the original, catchy, and low budget stuff he wants to make. The best Kevin Smith movies are easily Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy his first three films all having a small budget and all being extremely well written with dialog and various scenes that are very funny. Theres also a love story in everyone of those movies, while different, with the most unique story being in Chasing Amy all the stories are very original and not anything you would see made nowadays. They have a very original and true feel to them. Its like people actually talking not acting.
While "the f word" is uttered more time in this movie than a bar, it has very humorous and clever moments in the film as well as enjoyable and unexpected cameo scenes that fit nicely in the plot. I enjoyed seeing Dante Hicks, Randal Graves, Holden McNeil, and Brodie Bruce all return in this film. Even for a brief moment, I still enjoyed seeing their faces. I love all the characters and was happy to see Smith finally decided to bring them back in another movie. It was like an apology in 2001 for not having a Clerks or Chasing Amy sequel at the time.
Jay and Silent Bob (played by Jason Mewes and director Kevin Smith) are infuriated to find out that a movie based on the comic book characters they were the basis for is being made by Miramax and they haven't received a movie check or credit for the characters (Bluntman and Chronic). They both set out to Hollywood to collect there "mother...movie check" and "teach those Miramax...." a thing or too. Jay meets Justice (Shannon Elizabeth) who he falls for, but is unaware she is on the hunt to steal diamond from a diamond depositary with her girlfriends Sissy (Eliza Dushku), Missy (Jennifer Schwalbach), and Chrissy (Ali Larter). Jay and Silent Bob now become deeper in hot water then they've ever been at the Quick Stop.
Notably by the top notch cameras being improved (rather than the Super16 and cheapo cameras Smith had shot Clerks and Chasing Amy with) have vanished and now we have a solid budget of $22 million and a cast of cameos like Ali Larter, Sean William Scott, and Will Ferrell we can say that Mr. Kevin Smith is not the low budget film director we knew, he's changed his ways and his now on to do other newer and more pricey things. Nothing wrong with a filmmaker improving on his films, but doesnt any else find it funny that the movies he makes nowadays like the pricey hits we know as Cop Out, Jersey Girl, and Zack and Miri Make a Porno arent as brought up and praised as much as the classics like Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy? Its like that the stuff he did with a rock bottom, nowhere budget works are ten times better than the things with a bigger budget.
Still, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is well played and well acted. There are some scenes that havent sat right with me since the first viewing, like mainly the homosexual humor and other little things, but without a doubt, Kevin Smith impresses here, and really goes all out to show the stoners we love on the big screen. The jokes are funny and most fit nicely. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back maybe the last classic, but it comes off as a respectable close to the View Askew bests.
Starring: Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Shannon Elizabeth, Will Ferrell, Eliza Dushku, Ali Larter, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Ben Affleck, and Jason Lee. Directed by: Kevin Smith.