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The 5th of Kevin Smith’s New Jersey Chronicles begins in New Jersey itself, but it moves quickly. The film begins with an introduction scene, which is personally my favorite scene in the whole film. The intro scene shows us how Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) found the Quick Stop. The intro is set in the 70s, in front of none other than the Quick Stop convenient store. Two women we find out to be Jay and Silent Bob’s mothers leave their children in front of the store. We also see where Jay learned the word “fuck” as he sits there innocently while his mother curses out a passerby and talks to him using such words as well.
As the intro scene ends, when Jay and Silent Bob get a restraining order placed on them, they can no longer hang out in front of the Quick Stop. They eventually find out about geeks on the Internet insulting their characters in the comic Bluntman and Chronic, and in an attempt to silence them, they decide to go to Hollywood to stop the film from being made.
Finally, Jay and Silent Bob take the leading roles in a Kevin Smith film. In Clerks, they appeared in a few short scenes, in Mallrats, they were important characters, but still not leading ones, I never saw Chasing Amy, and in Dogma they once again played important characters, but not leading ones. Now it’s all theirs.
Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith, as always, deliver the excellent portrayal of Jay and Silent Bob, but now we can truly recognize their talent as leading characters. It’s very interesting to see how Jay and Silent Bob handle the real world outside of the Quick Stop. “Tickets for the bus? Didn’t we used to ride that shit to school every day for free?” comments Jay on the fare bus. The story is a little strange, as are the side events that occur. As André said, it’s toilet humor, but still funny. And toilet humor it is, indeed! Jay’s language is enough for it to be classified as such, but there’s so much else that makes it disgusting, but hilarious.
It lacks the intelligent humor of Clerks, though, and I do wish that was still there. However, it was still a good film, definitely a great follow-up to the New Jersey Chronicles. |
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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back |
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review by Dane Hitt |
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