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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

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Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 150
Fresh: 80 | Rotten: 70

Fans can expect a good laugh as the cast from Smith's previous films reunite for Jay and Silent Bob's last bow. The loose plotting and crude language may be too much for others though.

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Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 17

Fans can expect a good laugh as the cast from Smith's previous films reunite for Jay and Silent Bob's last bow. The loose plotting and crude language may be too much for others though.

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Movie Info

The frequently recurring title characters, employed by writer and director Kevin Smith as supporting players in several of his films, are put to rest with this comedy that focuses on them exclusively. Jay (Jason Mews) and Silent Bob (Smith) are a pair of stoned New Jersey slackers who have long been used as the templates for a pair of popular comic book heroes, Bluntman and Chronic. When they learn that their alter egos are to be turned into a major motion picture without their consent or

R, 1 hr. 44 min.

Comedy

Kevin Smith

Feb 26, 2002

$29.9M

Dimension Films

Cast

All Critics (153) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (86) | Rotten (73) | DVD (36)

Has the lazy, bric-a-brac atmosphere of one of those blown-off movies made during down time on some bigger affair.

June 23, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment (1)
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I admit to enjoying -- in a drunken, half-asleep kind of way -- parts of this ramshackle road movie with its running Miramax guest stars and its endless homo jokes.

August 31, 2001 Full Review Source: Slate | Comment
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Smith, coming off the madly audacious Dogma, knows that he's slumming this time and revels in it.

August 27, 2001 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
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The picture lacks the mix of innocence and savagery that branded [Smith's] other films.

August 24, 2001 Comment
Washington Post
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In keeping with the Smith rules, the movie is irreverent, self-referential, twisted, cheap and tasteless. And, of course, I mean that as the highest compliment.

August 24, 2001 Comment
Washington Post
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In addition to being [Smith's] filthiest, this is his most free-associative movie. In spite of and because of its homemade look, it's also his funniest.

August 24, 2001 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
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Kevin Smith fans will enjoy. Not for kids.

December 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

The epitome of self indulgence.

November 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Views | Comment (1)

Like one massive inside joke that only regulars to the View Askew Universe will get, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is the ultimate measure of Smith's undeniable nerdiness.

November 21, 2009 Full Review Source: PopMatters | Comment
PopMatters

Kevin Smith's clever in-joke movie gets an anemic Blu-ray release.

November 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

A mess, yes, but a funny and highly enjoyable one.

June 23, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

I have no idea how it'll play for people unfamiliar with Smith's work, but I rolled with it.

September 24, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

The film feels like a download of Mr. Smith's brain.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | Comment
Big Picture Big Sound

Tune out the dreck and there are enough laughs for it to be worthwhile.

December 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

Fans of Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, and their Jay and Silent Bob characters will like this more than the average filmgoer.

September 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

What do you want, some meditation on the human condition?

July 22, 2006 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

The perfect curtain call for these much-loved, wise but oh so stupid slackers.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

I feel a strange disturbance in the Force.

January 15, 2005 Comment
Looking Closer

While that may be enough for teenage fans, anyone expecting more will be sorely disappointed.

February 25, 2004 Full Review Source: Zap2it.com | Comment
Zap2it.com

...a madcap comedy that rarely disappoints.

August 1, 2003 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

A ridiculous, brainless comedy, but what else would you expect from Jay & Silent Bob?

November 20, 2011
Graham Jones

Super Reviewer

Only for the most seasoned of View Askiewniverse fans, Kevin Smith wrongfully ends his series of films with an all out compilation of every movie in aforementioned universe. (Only to revisit it in Clerks II five years later.) Ranging from Clerks to Chasing Amy to Scream 3, Smith includes his usual cast of favorites,

July 13, 2010
FrizzDrop

Super Reviewer

    1. Jay: [typing a message on an internet chat room] All you motherfuckers are gonna pay. You are the ones who are the ball-lickers. We're gonna fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like little bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax fucks who are making that movie, we're gonna make 'em eat our shit, then shit out our shit, then eat their shit which is made up of our shit that we made 'em eat. Then you're all you motherfucks are next. Love, Jay and Silent Bob.
    – Submitted by Sam B (6 months ago)

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