Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | ||
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Director: | Kevin Smith | Actors: | Jason Mewes (as Jay), Kevin Smith (as Silent Bob), Ben Affleck (as Holden McNeil/Himself/Echo Base (voice) (uncredited)), Jeff Anderson (I) (as Randal Graves), Brian O'Halloran (as Dante Hicks (as Brian Christopher O'Halloran)), Shannon Elizabeth (as Justice), Eliza Dushku (as Sissy), Ali Larter (as Chrissy), Jennifer Schwalbach Smith (as Missy (as Jennifer Schwalbach)), Will Ferrell (as Federal Wildlife Marshal Willenholly), Jason Lee (I) (as Brodie Bruce/Banky Edwards), Judd Nelson (as Sheriff), George Carlin (as Hitchhiker), Carrie Fisher (as Nun), Seann William Scott (as Brent) | Country: | USA | Category: | Adventure | Year: | 2001 |
| Description: | The comic 'Bluntman and Chronic' is based on real-life stoners Jay and Silent Bob, so when they get no profit from a big-screen adaptation they set out to wreck the movie. | Comments: | Here is the one and only piece of verbal humour that's actually funny: Justice (being led away to prison): Will you wait for me? Jay: What - here? Okay, so it's not so funny on the page. And it's not so funny on the screen, either, but only because Jay delivers the punchline automatically, without pause - because, that's his schtick, see? He talks a lot. He broadcasts words. Any sense there is a genuinely stupid character or a genuinely gauche character, or ANY character at all, behind this schtick, is missing, which is why even his good lines (and in this particular film there is, as I've said, exactly one of them) fall flat. Silent Bob is silent and we sense no character behind THIS, either. And to think I thought that "Dogma" was lousy because it felt like an entire movie devoted to these two supporting players, who were effective in "Mallrats" and nowhere else. In fact, everything Smith is trying for here (not that there's much), was effective in "Mallrats" and nowhere else. If this is a farewell, it's the farewell that "Mallrats" should have been. (And seemed to be, when Smith released his only other good movie, "Chasing Amy".) It's about twenty-five times more self-indulgent than "Mallrats", with a separate reference to EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER in EVERY SINGLE ONE of Smith's previous films (twelve jokes in every thirteen are of the kind where we're expected to congratulate ourselves and then chortle after spotting a reference to something else), an attack on critics that is embarrassing in both its vehemence and its clumsiness, with two points Smith would like to make again and again and again: (1) You have no business making childish and spiteful remarks about other people's movies unless you've made a movie yourself, but if you HAVE made a movie yourself, feel free, and (2) If the movie appears to be bad, but one of the characters in the movie acknowledges that the movie is bad, well, that's all right, then. "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" is not funny, it's not paced, it's scarcely acted, and it doesn't appear to have even been written. Why was it released? |
Languages: | English | Subtitles: | Length: | 104 | Video format: | Audio format: | Resolution: | Files sizes: | 1030 |