![]() Now a restraining order has encouraged them to budge, and in a comic book store they run into Banky Edwards (Jason Lee), who based his "Bluntman and Chronic" comic on them, and now informs them it's been sold to Miramax. The story begins more or less at birth, as we discover that Jay ( Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) were deposited as infants in front of the convenience store in "Clerks" and have more or less been there ever since. Like the Monty Python movies, it depends for full enjoyment on your encyclopedia knowledge of the world that generated it. This is one of those movies where the inmates take over the asylum, by which I mean that the director was obviously unrestrained by any timid notions of "reaching the biggest possible audience," and allowed to make an in-joke of epic proportions. "Jay and Silent Bob" will be seen as a self-indulgence by Kevin Smith to those outside the circle of his films-and by those within it as Kevin Smith's indulgence to them.Īnd don't get me started on whether it's plenary or temporal. And Miramax is the studio releasing this movie, which. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon appear as themselves in this movie, making a sequel to their movie " Good Will Hunting," and then we go into the fourth dimension and begin to suspect worm holes in the plot, because they also starred in "Dogma," in which Chris Rock played an angel-and now he turns up in "Jay and Silent Bob" as the director of "Bluntman and Chronic," which is the movie based on the lives of Jay and Silent Bob, which is an adaptation of the comic book created in "Chasing Amy." And before he appears as himself, Affleck appears as Holden, his "Chasing Amy" character, and introduces Jay and Silent Bob to the Internet.Īnd look-isn't that Joey Lauren Adams from "Chasing Amy"? And hey-wasn't Ben Affleck one of the comic artists in "Chasing Amy"? And while Affleck does not play his "Chasing Amy" character in "Jay and Silent Bob," Jason Lee, the co-creator of the Bluntman comic, does, turning up in this one to warn Jay and Silent Bob that the comic is being made into a movie by Miramax. ![]() They moved inside in " Mallrats," had their lives ripped off to make a comic book in " Chasing Amy," and risked salvation in " Dogma." Having visited all of Smith's other movies, they are now given their own, in which characters and stars from the earlier pictures return the favor.Ĭonsider the metaphysics. The connecting threads, apparently, are Jay and Silent Bob, who we met in Smith's first movie, " Clerks," where they were permanently stationed outside a convenience store, ostensibly pot dealers, more accurately waiting for something to happen. ![]() It is becoming clear that the film universe of Kevin Smith is interconnected, that characters from one movie can expect to run into characters from another-like Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, Smithland has a permanent population, even though we may not meet all of them in every movie. "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" is like an answer to that question. ![]() The Movie Answer Man column got a question earlier this year about whether movie characters know about other movie characters and movies.
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