Has the lazy, bric-a-brac atmosphere of one of those blown-off movies made during down time on some bigger affair.
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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:13
Rotten:17
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Aug 24, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $29,885,424
Synopsis: Writer-director Kevin Smith's fifth and final installment of his New Jersey Chronicles (which began in 1994 with the breakout, low-budget comedy CLERKS) is a chance for scene-stealing, foulmouthed... [More]
Starring: Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Joey Lauren Adams, Ben Affleck
Director: Kevin Smith
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Reviews for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
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09/06/01
Top CriticSmith, coming off the madly audacious Dogma, knows that he's slumming this time and revels in it.
08/27/01
Top CriticThe picture lacks the mix of innocence and savagery that branded [Smith's] other films.
08/24/01
Top CriticIn 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.
08/24/01
Top CriticIn 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.
08/24/01
Top CriticA dumbfounding, cameo-peppered road comedy that demeans everyone associated with it.
08/24/01
Top CriticThe originality and intelligence that made Smith's Clerks and Chasing Amy such refreshing pleasures are all but absent.
08/24/01
Top CriticThe relentless torrent of foul language--and not just from Jay--becomes numbing and finally makes the film seem more crass than amusing.
08/24/01
Top CriticNot clever enough for Smith fans, not gross enough to compete on the Farrelly brothers' ground, the movie feels like a kind of self-congratulatory fake.
08/24/01
Top CriticDeliciously inane, transcendentally outrageous and purposely preposterous, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is destined to be seen by some as the greatest cinematic achievement of the year.
08/24/01
Top CriticKevin Smith's movies are either made specifically for you, or specifically not made for you. If you read this review without a smile or a nod of recognition, I would recommend Rush Hour 2, which is for everybody or nobody, you tell me.
08/24/01
Top CriticWhile Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back can't be called hard-hitting, it's both freeform enough and free-swinging enough to make contact with the series' original anarchic impulses.
08/24/01
Top CriticThis ramshackle affair unspools like a bloopers reel of stag-party outtakes culled from Smith's four previous movies: Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma.
08/24/01
Top CriticLike The Blues Brothers, this film has a ridiculous conceit that doesn't quite work.
08/24/01
Top CriticJay and Silent Bob Strike Back is less a satire of the crass product Hollywood hurls at us than a reflection of it.
08/24/01
Top CriticUnlike, say, American Pie 2 or the Scary Movie franchise, there's obvious intelligence at work behind the stupidity.
08/24/01
Top CriticA master of the medium shot, [Smith] plops his camera down and records reel after reel of amateurish visuals and partially realized high concepts held afloat by puerile geek humor.
08/24/01
Top CriticAfter the agony of sitting through American Pie 2 and Rat Race within a week of each other, it's gratifying to see a comedy can have no redeeming social value yet be full of hearty laughs.
08/23/01
Top CriticA low-brow comic masterpiece with something to tickle and offend everyone.
08/23/01
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