![]() ![]() And Miramax is the studio releasing this movie, which. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon appear as themselves in this movie, making a sequel to their movie " Good Will Hunting," and then we go into the fourth dimension and begin to suspect worm holes in the plot, because they also starred in "Dogma," in which Chris Rock played an angel-and now he turns up in "Jay and Silent Bob" as the director of "Bluntman and Chronic," which is the movie based on the lives of Jay and Silent Bob, which is an adaptation of the comic book created in "Chasing Amy." And before he appears as himself, Affleck appears as Holden, his "Chasing Amy" character, and introduces Jay and Silent Bob to the Internet.Īnd look-isn't that Joey Lauren Adams from "Chasing Amy"? And hey-wasn't Ben Affleck one of the comic artists in "Chasing Amy"? And while Affleck does not play his "Chasing Amy" character in "Jay and Silent Bob," Jason Lee, the co-creator of the Bluntman comic, does, turning up in this one to warn Jay and Silent Bob that the comic is being made into a movie by Miramax. They moved inside in " Mallrats," had their lives ripped off to make a comic book in " Chasing Amy," and risked salvation in " Dogma." Having visited all of Smith's other movies, they are now given their own, in which characters and stars from the earlier pictures return the favor.Ĭonsider the metaphysics. The connecting threads, apparently, are Jay and Silent Bob, who we met in Smith's first movie, " Clerks," where they were permanently stationed outside a convenience store, ostensibly pot dealers, more accurately waiting for something to happen. It is becoming clear that the film universe of Kevin Smith is interconnected, that characters from one movie can expect to run into characters from another-like Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, Smithland has a permanent population, even though we may not meet all of them in every movie. "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" is like an answer to that question. Fuck Jay and Silent Bob.The Movie Answer Man column got a question earlier this year about whether movie characters know about other movie characters and movies. In the film, one guy who calls himself “Magnolia Fan” disses our boys for spouting “baby-talk catchphrases like a third-rate Cheech and Chong or Bill and Ted. It’s just an excuse for Smith to fire comic darts at everything from Hollywood - the scene in which Affleck and Damon rag on each ther’s queer choices in roles while shooting a sequel to Good Will Hunting is a howl - to the Internet, which has allowed everyone in America to bitch about movies. Is there a point to all this? Not really. Then there’s the monkey, a smelly surprise to savor. Actors from other Smith films show up, including Carlin, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jason Lee, Joey Lauren Adams and Chris Rock. As he tells Silent Bob, whom he refers to by such terms of endearment as Lunch Box, Fat Fuck and Tubby Bitch, “She’s the first woman I ever loved enough not to stick my hand down her pants.” So much for sentiment. ![]() For sex appeal, Pie girl Shannon Elizabeth suits up in leather to play Justice, the leader of Charlie’s Angels-like diamond thieves named Sissy (Eliza Dushku), Chrissy (Ali Larter) and Missy (Jennifer Schwalbach). Nothing resembling a linear story, of course, and there are the usual fart, weed and dick jokes, not to mention the references to Star Wars and the musical stylings of Morris Day and the Time, but in this film the camera actually moves. Asks Jay, “You eat the cock?” Hitchhiker: “If it’ll get me a few hundred miles across country, ure - I’ll take a shot in the mouth.”īudgeted at $20 million, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back contains many remarkable things for a Smith movie. Example: George Carlin does a cameo as a hitchhiker who carries a sign: will give head for ride. His latest comic opus, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, is already drawing fire from GLAAD, the gay and lesbian anti-defamation group that takes offense at the film’s proliferation of queer jokes. ![]() ![]() The church still stands.Īnd so, happily, does Smith. Then the Catholics cried blasphemy in 1999 when Dogma was released and he had cast Alanis Morissette as a mute and vengeful God. Smith’s subsequent films, Mallrats and Chasing Amy, consolidated his image as a dangerous influence on tender minds. Clerks, his 1994 launch as a writer and director, not to mention his acting debut as Silent Bob alongside Jason Mewes as his hetero life mate Jay, was a $27,000 production that had media watchdogs howling over its foul language. This sly, fearless satirist from New Jersey can’t make a movie without getting his ass kicked by special-interest groups. Kevin Smith must be doing something right. ![]()
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