Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back ***½ (2001, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Ben Affleck, Will Ferrell, Jason Lee) – Classic Movie Review 4902

Writer-director Kevin Smith’s wild, wayward and wacky 2001 comedy stars Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith as slacker stoners Jay and Silent Bob.

The crazy duo find that Hollywood executives are cashing in on their images when they get no profit from a big-screen adaptation of the comic ‘Bluntman and Chronic’ that is based on them. So they head for Tinseltown to claim their share of the earnings, or to wreck the movie.

It is patchy but often very funny and in your face: beware the crude humour, strong language and drug content. The anti-gay jokes may be found in dodgy taste.

Mewes is very amusing, er amewesing, and Smith is mostly very silent but still manages to raise laughs. In star support, a young, lively and mischievous Ben Affleck has quite a lot to do both as a character, Holden McNeil, and as himself. And Matt Damon, Gus Van Sant, Shannon Doherty, Wes Craven, James Van Der Beek, Jason Biggs and Mark Hamill also all appear – entertainingly – as themselves. The Affleck-Damon scene is hilarious.

Also in the cast are Brian O’Halloran and Jeff Anderson as Dante and Randal (of Clerks fame), Shannon Elizabeth, Eliza Dushku, Jennifer Schwalback, Will Ferrell (as Federal Wildlife Marshal Willenholly), Jason Lee, Judd Nelson, George Carlin, Carrie Fisher (as a nun), Seann William Scott, Chris Rock, Jon Stewart, Tracy Morgan, Jamie Kennedy, Joey Lauren Adams and Alanis Morissette.

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