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Oct 16, 2019 · Throw in Smith’s notoriously basic filmmaking skills, and you get “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot,” a spectacularly disjointed comedy that’s only superficially about two foul-mouthed, but well-meaning dopes who light and pass the proverbial torch to the next generation of slackers.
Oct 15, 2019 · 65% Tomatometer 40 Reviews 93% Audience Score 500+ Verified Ratings Jay and Silent Bob embark on a cross-country mission to stop Hollywood from filming a reboot based on them. Read More...
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Oct 16, 2019 · Film Review: ‘Jay and Silent Bob Reboot’. A gently stoned trip through the View Askew universe, Kevin Smith's new sequel is a movie made for (and maybe only for) his middle-aged fanboys....
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By Tom Jorgensen
Updated: Dec 17, 2020 10:27 pm
Posted: Oct 15, 2019 8:45 pm
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot plays in theaters Oct. 15 and Oct. 17 via Fathom Events.
It’s been 25 years since Kevin Smith introduced audiences to hyperactive slackers Jay and Silent Bob in Clerks. They functioned as a vehicle for some of the movie’s raunchiest jokes, a function that’s remained largely the same in their subsequent appearances. The Askewniverse films have always been Smith’s most personal, so when news came that he was revisiting that world with Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, it seemed a little strange that he could just be using these characters to take potshots (heh) at the Hollywood machine. But Reboot ends up being a surprisingly heartfelt look at growing older and growing up… punctuated with a whole hell of a lot of dirty humor. Just don’t expect a reinvention of the wheel in the story department.
By design, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot’s plot hews very, very closely to their adventure in Strike Back: Jay (Jason Mewes) and his hetero life-mate Silent Bob (Smith) get wind of a Hollywood scheme to use their likenesses in a movie and leave the comforts of Quick Stop’s stoop to put an end to it. Reboot milks that storytelling shortcut for everything it’s worth, even throwing The Force Awakens under the bus as justification. Smith uses Strike Back’s plot to comment on the state of Hollywood’s ongoing tendency to take what’s worked before and keep doing it… all while Smith takes what’s worked before and keeps doing it himself. It’s a hit-or-miss balancing act that for the first half of the movie bogs down some of the fun, as the constant reminders of the movie being a reboot about stopping a reboot offer diminishing returns.
Once Reboot gets around to introducing Jay’s love child Milly (Harley Quinn Smith), the story diverges into more interesting territory. Reboot is about evolution, embracing both the past and the future, and that dynamic in Jay and Milly’s relationship ends up being one of the movie’s strongest elements. Jay and Silent Bob’s entire schtick is that as the years go by, they remain exactly the same ne’er-do-wells they’ve always been, so introducing Jay to a daughter he has no idea how to relate to ends up being fodder for some pretty great character moments, especially late in the game.
These more emotional scenes are helped along greatly by Mewes and the Smiths being a family in real life and their chemistry is expectedly easy. You’re never going to see Mewes go up for an Oscar, but he’s certainly bringing more to Reboot’s dramatic material than you’d anticipate. Smith’s Silent Bob remains a great Teller to Mewes’ Penn, taking to the advent of expressing himself through emojis like a duck to water. Smith also pulls double duty as a semi-fictionalized, more over-the-top version of himself, bringing his carnival barker energy to Chronic Con as the director of the upcoming Bluntman v Chronic reboot that Jay and Silent Bob are trying to stop.
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Yes, the meta levels are off the charts and those elements of Reboot will either delight you or alienate you completely. Your mileage is going to depend on how current you are with pop culture, but even more-so on your familiarity with the assorted legends and myths of both the fictional Askewniverse and of Smith’s real life. Smith has been making movies more and more exclusively for his fans for years, so chances are, if you’re interested in Reboot at all, it’s because you’re already at least a little familiar with the Askewniverse. If you only have a passing recollection of Jay and Silent Bob’s previous adventures, or God forbid you’ve never seen one of Smith’s films period, a lot of the movie’s just not going to make sense and won’t be nearly as funny as it would be to a Smith movie/podcast completionist.
Though its meta-heavy plot gets tiresome after a while, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is a successful return to form for Kevin Smith. Though it’s a bit rough around the edges, all involved clearly came to have fun and that infectious energy is palpable for the entire runtime. It may be his raunchiest film in years, but it’s also his most emotionally in...
439 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 6/10. It gave me a few laughs, but it probably relies a little too heavily on nostalgia. jimbo-53-186511 3 September 2020. When they learn that their alter egos are the subject of a reboot the eponymous Jay and Silent Bob head off to Hollywood to prevent the film from being made.
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is essentially The Irishman or Avengers: Endgame of the View Askewniverse. A hardcore fans-only version of Kevin Smith bingo on the big-screen. Full Review | Feb 11, 2020
Nov 29, 2019 · Jay and Silent Bob Reboot: Directed by Kevin Smith. With Joey Lauren Adams, Ben Affleck, Fred Armisen, Diedrich Bader. Jay and Silent Bob inadvertently sign away their names and rights to the new Bluntman and Chronic movie.
