''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back'' is a 2001 American
satirical
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stoner buddy comedy film written, co-edited, and directed by
Kevin Smith
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and produced and co-edited by
Scott Mosier
Scott A. Mosier (born March 5, 1971) is an American-Canadian film producer, director and editor best known for his work with director Kevin Smith, with whom he occasionally co-hosts the weekly podcast, ''SModcast''.
Early life
Mosier was born ...
. The film is the fifth set in the
View Askewniverse
The View Askewniverse is a fictional universe created by writer/director Kevin Smith, featured in several films, comics and a television series; it is named for Smith's production company, View Askew Productions. The characters Jay and Silent ...
, a growing collection of characters and settings that developed out of Smith's cult-favorite ''
Clerks
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Office holder
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*Barristers' clerk, a manager and administ ...
''. It stars
Jason Mewes and Smith respectively as the
two eponymous characters. The film also stars
Shannon Elizabeth,
Jason Lee,
Ben Affleck
Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker. His accolades include two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globes. Affleck began his career as a child when he starred in the PBS educatio ...
,
Matt Damon
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,
Will Ferrell
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,
Eliza Dushku
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,
Ali Larter, and
Chris Rock, among many others, most of which make
cameo appearance
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s. The title and logo for ''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back'' are direct references to ''
The Empire Strikes Back
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'' (1980).
Originally intended to be the last film set in the Askewniverse, or to feature Jay and Silent Bob, ''Strike Back'' features many characters from the previous Askew films, some in
dual role
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s and/or reprising roles from
the
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previous four entries. The film received mixed reviews from critics.
Smith announced in February 2017 that he was writing a sequel called ''
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
''Jay and Silent Bob Reboot'' is a 2019 American satirical buddy stoner comedy film written, directed, edited by, and starring Kevin Smith. A sequel to '' Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back'', it is the eighth film in the View Askewniverse. The film ...
'' and started filming in February 2019 and was released on October 15 that same year. From February to June 2019, Smith additionally re-adapted the plot of the film to the character of
Mindy McCready / Hit-Girl in the relaunched
Image
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comic book series
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, titled ''Hit-Girl: The Golden Rage of Hollywood'', with
Dave Lizewski filling the role of
Banky Edwards.
Plot
Dante Hicks and Randal Graves get a
restraining order
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Restraining and perso ...
against
Jay and Silent Bob
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, finally fed up with their
drug dealing
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outside the strip mall where they work after Jay and Silent Bob tell a pair of teenagers that they were married in a
Star Wars
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-themed wedding. Not allowed within 100 feet of the strip mall for at least a year, Jay and Silent Bob visit
Brodie Bruce
This is a list of major and recurring characters in Kevin Smith's fictional universe known as the View Askewniverse.
''Clerks'' (1994)
Dante Hicks
Dante Hicks, played by Brian O'Halloran, is 22 (33 in '' Clerks II, 49 in Clerks III''), works ...
at his comic shop where they learn that
Miramax Films
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is adapting ''
Bluntman and Chronic'', the comic book based on their likenesses.
The pair visit
Holden McNeil, co-creator and co-writer of ''Bluntman and Chronic'', and demand that he give them their royalty money from the film, but Holden explains he sold his half of the rights to co-creator and artist Banky Edwards. Seeing the film's negative reception online, the pair set out for
Hollywood
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* Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in California
* Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States
Hollywood may also refer to:
Places United States
* Hollywood District (disambiguation)
* Hollywood ...
to prevent the film from ruining their image, or at least to receive the royalties owed to them.
En route, they befriend an animal liberation group: Justice, Sissy, Missy, Chrissy, and Brent. The organization is a front; Brent is a
patsy, who will free animals from a laboratory as a diversion while the girls rob a diamond depository. Jay throws Brent out of their van to get closer to Justice, to whom he is attracted to. Justice is fond of the pair, but reluctantly accepts them as new patsies. While the girls steal the diamonds, Jay and Silent Bob free the animals, stealing an
orangutan
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named Suzanne. They escape as the police arrive and the van explodes, believing the girls have perished.
Federal Wildlife Marshal Willenholly (whose name is taken from
''Land of the Lost'' characters ) arrives at the crime scene; oblivious to the diamond heist, he claims jurisdiction due to the escaped animals, all of which have been recovered but Suzanne. The police find footage of a video Sissy made of Jay claiming to be "the
clit commander", with "Clit" edited to be an acronym for ''Coalition for the Liberation of Itinerant Tree-Dwellers''. Willenholly declares the crime an act of
terrorism
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and calls for backup to hunt "the two most dangerous men on the planet." He finds Jay and Silent Bob at a diner near
Vasquez Rocks, and chases them into the sewer system of a nearby dam. Suzanne helps the duo in losing Willenholly by luring him off the dam, but is subsequently abducted by a Hollywood animal acting agency.
The duo then hitch a ride and arrive in Hollywood, and eventually, the Miramax lot. Chased by a team of security guards through the lot and several movie sets, including ''Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season'', and reclaiming Suzanne from the set of
''Scream 4'', Jay and Silent Bob end up in the dressing room of
Jason Biggs
Jason Matthew Biggs (born May 12, 1978) is an American actor. The accolades he has received include a Screen Actors Guild Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award, alongside nominations for a Daytime Emmy Awards, Daytime Emmy Award and a Satellite Award ...
and
James Van Der Beek
James David Van Der Beek (; born March 8, 1977) is an American actor. Known for his portrayal of Dawson Leery on The WB's ''Dawson's Creek'' (1998–2003), he also played a fictionalized version of himself on the cult ABC sitcom '' Don't Trus ...
, the actors playing Bluntman and Chronic respectively in the film. Suzanne beats up the actors, knocking them out, and Jay and Silent Bob assume the roles while Van Der Beek and Biggs are arrested after getting mistaken for the duo.
Meeting the film's anti-white director Chaka Luther King, who mistakes them for Biggs and Van Der Beek's stunt doubles, Jay and Silent Bob are then escorted onto the set and forced to fight
Mark Hamill
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, playing the supervillain of the film Cocknocker (a combination of Hamill's roles as
The Joker,
The Trickster, and
Luke Skywalker
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) in a Star Wars-esque battle. Willenholly, armed with a shotgun, arrives to capture the pair, but Justice protects them, admitting the CLIT organization was only a diversion. The other thieves arrive and a climactic gun fight ensues. Jay and Silent Bob locate Banky and demand that he shut down production of the movie. Banky refuses on account of both the large sum of money Miramax offered him for the film and that the internet will continue to troll them regardless. Silent Bob then informs Banky that he violated their original likeness rights contract by selling the film rights of Bluntman and Chronic to Miramax without their permission, and therefore could face legal trouble if he doesn't give them their legally entitled royalties. Banky finally relents and agrees to give the duo half of his payment for the film.
Justice then turns herself and her former team in to Willenholly in exchange for a shorter sentence and dropping the charges on Jay and Silent Bob. The duo spend their royalty money locating everyone who mocked them, their characters, and the movie on the internet, including children and members of the clergy, and travel to assault them. The scene cuts to the El Rey theater where a bunch of people exit, including Dante, Randal, Banky, Steve-Dave Pulski, Walt "The Fanboy" Grover, Willam Black, Hooper LaMonte, and sisters Alyssa and Tricia Jones, having just watched the ''Bluntman and Chronic'' movie, to poor reception. Jay and Silent Bob, accompanied by Justice and Willenholly (now an FBI agent), go across the street to enjoy the after party, featuring a performance from
Morris Day and
The Time.
After the credits, God (''
Dogma
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'') closes the
View Askewniverse
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book.
Cast
Additionally,
Wes Craven
Wesley Earl Craven (August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Amongst his Wes Craven filmography, prolific filmography, Craven worked primarily in the Horror film, horror genre, particularly sla ...
,
Jules Asner,
Steve Kmetko,
Gus Van Sant
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His ...
,
Jason Biggs
Jason Matthew Biggs (born May 12, 1978) is an American actor. The accolades he has received include a Screen Actors Guild Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award, alongside nominations for a Daytime Emmy Awards, Daytime Emmy Award and a Satellite Award ...
,
James Van Der Beek
James David Van Der Beek (; born March 8, 1977) is an American actor. Known for his portrayal of Dawson Leery on The WB's ''Dawson's Creek'' (1998–2003), he also played a fictionalized version of himself on the cult ABC sitcom '' Don't Trus ...
,
Shannen Doherty
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, and
Morris Day all appear as themselves.
Production
The film's plot was heavily inspired by ''
Chasing Dogma'', a comic book miniseries that Smith wrote in 1998 and 1999 to explore events that happened in the Askewniverse between ''
Chasing Amy'' and ''
Dogma
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''.
The film was originally titled ''View Askew 5'' and the title was changed to ''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back''. Filming began on January 14, 2001, and ended on April 19, 2001. Filming took in place in New Jersey, and mostly in California.
On his podcast ''
Jay & Silent Bob Get Old'',
Kevin Smith
Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. He came to prominence with the low-budget buddy comedy film ''Clerks (film), Clerks'' (1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted i ...
explained at length about how much of a "headache" the film was to make, mostly owing to
Jason Mewes's drug and alcohol abuse turning him into a "ticking time bomb", which threatened to shut the project down at any moment. During pre-production, Mewes would have constant mood swings due to heroin withdrawal, to the point that Smith actually threw him out of his car on their way to the set one day. Mewes would compensate for his lack of drugs by drinking heavily after every day of shooting and nearly got into a fist fight with producer
Scott Mosier
Scott A. Mosier (born March 5, 1971) is an American-Canadian film producer, director and editor best known for his work with director Kevin Smith, with whom he occasionally co-hosts the weekly podcast, ''SModcast''.
Early life
Mosier was born ...
when he had to come back one night for a re-shoot while drunk. When filming wrapped, Smith told Mewes point-blank to get sober or he would never speak to him again.
Release
Box office
''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back'' grossed $30.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $3.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $33.8 million, against a production budget of $22 million.
[
The film grossed $11 million in its opening weekend, finishing third at the box office behind two other comedy sequels, '' American Pie 2'' ($12.5 million) and '' Rush Hour 2'' ($11.6 million).
]
Critical reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes
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, ''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back'' has an approval rating of 52% based on 151 reviews, with an average rating of 5.60/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "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." On Metacritic
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the film has a weighted average score of 51 out of 100, based on 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore
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Background
Ed Mintz, who ...
gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.
Roger Ebert
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gave the film three out of four stars, writing that " ether you will like 'Jay and Silent Bob' depends on who you are ... Kevin Smith's movies are either made specifically for you, or specifically not made for you". Adam Smith of ''Empire
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'' gave the film 3/5 stars, writing that " en it's good it's very, very good, but when it's bad it's offensive", and noting that "the gag hit/miss ratio is really only about 50/50". Scott Tobias of ''The A.V. Club
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'' wrote that " en at a slim 95 minutes, ''Jay And Silent Bob'' lets initially funny scenes trail off into long-winded monologues and silly digressions", and Elvis Mitchell of ''The New York Times
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'' called the film " aye the greatest picture ever made for 14-year-old boys. Mr. Smith may have hit his target, but he aimed very low." In August 2001, Mike Schulz of '' River Cities' Reader'' wrote that, "for sheer laughs, both mindless and incredibly smart, nothing since 1997's '' Waiting for Guffman'' has even compared."
Home media
''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back'' was released on VHS and on a two-disc DVD set on February 26, 2002, by Dimension Home Video as a part of their "Dimension Collector's Series", presented in its original 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratio. Among the bonus features on the DVD is an audio commentary by Smith, Mosier, and Mewes, 42 deleted, extended, and alternate scenes, music videos for Stroke 9's " Kick Some Ass" and Afroman's " Because I Got High", storyboards, a gag reel, a behind the scenes special, still galleries, cast and crew filmographies, and TV spots. A Blu-ray
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version of the film was released on September 19, 2006, with all features carried over from the DVD. As for 2020, the film's home media distribution has been handled by Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment
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The division oversees Para ...
following Paramount Global
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's purchase of 49% of Miramax (which includes Dimension Films' pre-2006 film and television catalog).
Soundtrack
''Music from the Dimension Motion Picture: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back'', the soundtrack to the film, was released on August 14, 2001, by Universal Records
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. Varèse Sarabande
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released the original score by James L. Venable. It alternates film dialogue with songs of various genres that appear in the film. It features the 2001 Afroman hit, " Because I Got High", whose music video
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featured the characters Jay and Silent Bob. "Tube Of Wonderful" was previously used as the theme song from Smith's 1997 film '' Chasing Amy''.
Track listing
Other songs that featured in the film but weren't included on the soundtrack album include " Life's Been Good" by Joe Walsh
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, " Too Much Heaven" by The Bee Gees
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, and Jason Mewes' cover of "Fuck tha Police
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" by Ice Cube
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.
MPAA rating and GLAAD controversy
In August 2001, three weeks prior to release, the film came under fire from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), for an alleged "overwhelmingly homophobic
Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who identify or are perceived as being lesbian, Gay men, gay or bisexual. It has been defined as contempt, prejudice, aversion, hatred, or ant ...
tone", which included an abundance of gay jokes and characters excessively using the term "gay" to mean something derogatory. The scenes deemed particularly offensive included Jay's vehement refusal of giving oral sex to a male driver when hitchhiking, and Jay chastising Silent Bob for being willing to perform fellatio on him to get the security guard to let them go. Following an advance screening of the film, former GLAAD media director Scott Seomin asked Smith to make a $10,000 donation to the Matthew Shepard Foundation
The Matthew Shepard Foundation is an LGBTQ nonprofit organization, headquartered in Casper, Wyoming, which was founded in December 1998 by Dennis Shepard, Dennis and Judy Shepard in memory of their son, Matthew Shepard, Matthew, who was murdered i ...
, as well as to include a reference to GLAAD's cause in the ending credits. Roger Ebert responded to this controversy, writing: "GLAAD should give audiences credit for enough intelligence to know the difference between satire and bigotry."[
On the bonus DVD, Smith explains in the on-camera intros of the deleted scenes that several scenes had to be cut from the theatrical release, due to the film initially receiving an NC-17 rating from the ]MPAA
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. He also mentions in the audio commentary of the feature film that it took three submissions to the MPAA for the film to finally earn an R rating.
See also
* ''Hit-Girl: The Golden Rage of Hollywood'', Smith's comic book re-adaptation of the concept.
* '' Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party'', a documentary about the making of the film.
* '' Jay & Silent Bob Reboot'', Smith's " requel" to the film.
* List of films featuring fictional films
Notes
According to Ethan Alter of ''Film Journal International
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'', Smith did not intend to make another View Askewniverse film upon completion of ''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back'', but only decided to do so several years later, following the unsuccessful release of '' Jersey Girl''.
Will Ferrell would later star in the 2009 film adaptation of ''Land of the Lost'' as Dr. Rick Marshall alongside Danny McBride
Daniel Richard McBride (born December 29, 1976) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer. Known for his unique acting and writing style, the accolades he has received include nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and four Sat ...
as Will Stanton and Anna Friel as Holly Cantrell.
References
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