Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back [Blu-ray]

Director: Kevin Smith

Overview

The frequently recurring title characters, employed by writer and director Kevin Smith as supporting players in several of his films, are put to rest with this comedy that focuses on them exclusively. Jay (Jason Mews) and Silent Bob (Smith) are a pair of stoned New Jersey slackers who have long been used as the templates for a pair of popular comic book heroes, Bluntman and Chronic. When they learn that their alter egos are to be turned into a major motion picture without their consent or compensation, the pair sets off for Hollywood to sabotage the production. Along the way, they encounter an ape, a nun (Carrie Fisher), the cast of Scooby-Doo, a Charlie's Angels-style band of sexy women who use them as stool pigeons in a diamond heist, and an unhinged wildlife ranger (Will Ferrell). They also meet up with some regulars from the Smith canon, including Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams), Brian O'Halloran as Dante Hicks, Jason Lee as Banky Edwards, Alanis Morissette as God, and actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in dual roles as themselves and two other familiar characters. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back co-stars numerous other recognizable performers in roles of various sizes, including Shannen Doherty, Jason Biggs, James Van Der Beek, Shannon Elizabeth, Tracy Morgan, Judd Nelson, Chris Rock, and George Carlin, among others.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/15/2011
UPC:	0031398137702
Original Release:	2001
Source:	Miramax Lionsgate
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:44:00
Sales rank:	25,259

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jason Mewes	Jay
Kevin Smith	Silent Bob,Baby Silent Bob
Ben Affleck	Holden McNeil/Himself
Shannon Elizabeth	Justice
Eliza Dushku	Sissy
Ali Larter	Chrissy
Jennifer Schwalbach	Missy
Seann William Scott	Brent
Will Ferrell	Marshal Willenholly
George Carlin	Hitchhiker
Brian Andrew Saible	Baby Jay
Jason Lee	Brodie Bruce/Banky Edwards
Carrie Fisher	Nun
Gavin Brooks	Baby Jay
Judd Nelson	Sheriff
Tracy Morgan	Pumpkin Escobar
Matt Damon	Himself
Nick Fellinger	Teen #2
Scott William Winters	Himself
Shannen Doherty	Herself
Chris Rock	Chaka Luther King
Emily O'Donnell	Cop
Mark Hamill	Himself
Morris Day	Himself
Wes Craven	Himself
Jason Biggs	Himself
James Van Der Beek	Himself
Matthew James	Dude
Gus Van Sant	Himself
Jon Stewart	Reg Hartner
Amy Noble	Silent Bob's Mother
Ever Carradine	Jay's Mother
Jeff Anderson	Randal
Steven Lawrence	The Kid In The Helmet
Diedrich Bader	Security Guard
Brian Christopher O'Halloran	Dante
Adam Carolla	Actor
Jules Asner	Herself
Marc Blucas	Guy
Jamie Kennedy	PA
Steve Kmetko	Himself
John Willyung	Passerby
Jake Richardson	Teen No. 1
Nicholas Fehlinger	Teen No. 2
Vincent Pereira	Customer
Ernest O'Donnell	Cop
Jane Silvia	Bookish Girl
Carmen Llywellyn	Beauty
Dan Etheridge	Deputy
Eric Winzenried	Cop No. 1
Jonathan Gordon	Cop No. 2
John Maynard	Cop No. 3
Robert H. Holtzman	Cop No. 4
Tom Dorfmeister	Cop No. 5
Tango	Suzanne
Joe Quesada	Pizza Delivery Guy
Michelle Anne Johnson	Hooker No. 1,Steve/Dave
Merritt Hicks	Hooker No. 2
Scott Mosier	`GWH2' A.D.
James J. McLaughlin	`GWH2' Clapper-Loader
Joseph D. Reitman	`Bluntman & Chronic' A.D.
Paul Dini	`Bluntman & Chronic' Clapper-Loader
Quentin Wright	William Dusky
Gregory Owen	Suburban Kid
Ralph Meyer	Receptionist
Walter Flanagan	Actor
Brian Lynch	Actor
Joey Lauren Adams	Alyssa
David Mandel	Actor
Dwight Ewell	Hooper
Alanis Morissette	God
Ren?e Humphrey	Trish

Technical Credits

Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith	Screenwriter
Charles Belardinelli	Special Effects
Jonathan Gordon	Executive Producer
Joseph Grossberg	Special Effects
Gary Jensen	Stunts
Scott Mosier	Producer
Christine Sheaks	Casting
Bob Weinstein	Executive Producer,Executive Producer,Producer,Producer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
1. Opening Credits: "A Long Time Ago..."
2. "Where's Our Mother #*$!@A% Movie Check?"
3. Living by the Book
4. Doobie Dreams and Distractions
5. "What Is Your Damage, Little Boy?"
6. Two Patsies
7. Stealing the Monkey
8. "The Two Most Dangerous Men on the Planet"
9. "Surrender the Orangutan"
10. Finding Miramax and the Monkey
11. "Ooh What a Lovely Tea Party"
12. "It's Hunting Season"
13. "That's One Funky Monkey"
14. "A Gay Hood Ornament and the Color Purple"
15. "Crazy Crackers With Guns"
16. Kick Some Ass
17. "One 90-Minute-Long Gay Joke"
18. End Credits

Editorial Reviews

The frat-boy humor inherent in the work of writer/director Kevin Smith gets a serious workout in this road trip comedy that inspires an equal number of guffaws and winces. Supposedly the last of his "New Jersey" films and the swan song for his alter-ego characters of Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith himself), this ostensible adventure is in reality a messy conglomeration of everything that composes the filmmaker's oeuvre. These include movie parodies, celebrity cameos, an ironic self-awareness apparent in the often expository dialogue, an obsession with pop culture in general and comic books in particular, plus a mind-boggling number of homosexuality-related jibes and gags involving farts, filtered through the sensibilities of a sexually retarded teenage drug abuser. The bottom line on the world created by Smith is that he seems perfectly aware of all of this, embracing it with the fiendish glee of a demented toddler given free reign over a fictional universe where it's okay to make derogatory jokes about guys having sex with other guys. Smith has publicly stated that his are the films that would result if an average, going-nowhere slacker were given the power and financial wherewithal to make a motion picture, and he's cannily right on the money. The only question left, as one of his characters puts it directly to the audience, "Why would anyone pay to see this?" The answer: If you're a skateboarding, comic book-collecting, baseball cap-wearing pot smoker, it's probably your cup of tea and you'll be delighted. If not, then it probably isn't and you've been warned.