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Jay silent bob strike back9/13/2023 In "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," the two learn that the comic book based on their personalities has been sold to a major studio (that would be Miramax, the parent company of Dimension Films, which produced this movie - the first of many, many thumpingly self-referential jokes). Jay is the verbose, thoughtlessly crude one Silent Bob is the cranky one who (almost) never speaks up, the straight guy who more often than not responds to Jay's shenanigans with a cartoonishly cocked eyebrow. Jay and Silent Bob are recurring characters in Smith's films, having appeared as amusingly low-key minor characters in each movie from "Clerks" to "Dogma," and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" is, Smith claims, his fond farewell to the duo. The bit, clearly Smith's preemptive strike against moviegoers who doubt Jay and Silent Bob's ability to sustain a whole movie on their own, would be funnier if "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" proved those online wiseguys wrong. "Jay and Silent Bob are one-note jokes that only 'Net nerds and stoners laugh at." Jay and Silent Bob "are a third-rate Cheech and Chong or Bill and Ted," says another. Believing (wrongly, as it turns out) that Jay and Silent Bob have sold out to Hollywood, the fans can't think of enough bad things to say about them: Jay and Silent Bob "work in small doses, if at all," says one. Apparently, comic-book nerds everywhere are outraged about an upcoming movie featuring characters created by Affleck in "Chasing Amy," based on his local neighborhood slacker-stoners, Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith). There's a bit in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" where Ben Affleck, making a cameo appearance as the comic-book artist he played in Kevin Smith's "Chasing Amy," reads off a bunch of comments left on an Internet fan site with the unabashedly brilliant name.
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