Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Pros: The Usual Dead-On Pop Slamming
Cons: Too Much Reliance On Slapstick And Toilet Humor

Kevin Smith has been on a roll for years now with his ongoing series of films revolving around a few key characters, two of which being two lovable losers by the names of Jay (Jay Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith). In Clerks, the two...

Pros: Some sharp, funny dialogue.
Cons: Utterly inane, stream-of-consciousness story. Pretty vulgar, too.

Kevin Smith is not a good filmmaker. Heck, he's not even that good of a storyteller. The insightful and touching freak anomaly Chasing Amy aside, Smith has proven time and again that he's not cracked up to be a director. There is an avid fan base...

Pros: Some pretty funny scenes.
Cons: The funny scenes became redundant kind of quickly.

Seeing a Kevin Smith movie is intentionally what people will do to get a good laugh. Kevin Smith is the director of Jay and Silent Bob: Strike Back, amongst other favorites like Clerks and Mallrats. Each one of his gems is another step into the history ...

Pros: Lots of cameos and references from old Smith movies
Cons: Too many cameos and somewhat alienating for non-Smith fans

I can’t remember the first time I saw Clerks. I must have rented it from the video store in 1995 or so. I absolutely loved it. I also liked Mallrats, but did not really enjoy Chasing Amy. Two years ago, my boyfriend (who is even a bigger Kevin Smith...

Pros: Good satire; decent number of laughs
Cons: At times, it felt like a protracted Beavis and Butt-Head sketch

Sometimes, the hardest films (or products, for that matter) to review are those that fall squarely “down the middle.” Such is the case with Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, an alternately amusing and frustrating outing from...

Pros: First & Third Acts are Incredibly Funny. Smith fans will LOVE it
Cons: Shannon Elizabeth. A slightly weak second act.

Directors and actors all the time talk about making movies for their fans. Just last November, Adam Sandler gave Little Nicky a speech impediment because he claimed “that’s what the fans wanted.” Well, Sandler obviously doesn’t know his fans the way...

Pros: Extremely humurous
Cons: Some extreme stupidness

All right, I'll admit it. I am a big Kevin Smith fan.

But it is a somewhat sad day for fans like myself. Smith has decided to retire from his New Jersey series of films and move on to more grown-up work.

The New Jersey series...

Pros: Big talent featured, some sharp wit.
Cons: All that foul language, with too much genitals and flatulence too.

I'm not biased in any way. I went in with an open mind. Not having seen any of Kevin Smith's films (Chasing Amy, Dogma, etc.), my mind was a clean slate. But when right from the get-go, my ears get assaulted by F-word this, S-word that,...

Pros: Not behind the camera, that's for sure.
Cons: Will Ferrel and Tracy Morgan; will someone please explain to Hollywood these guys aren't funny.

Prior to seeing Chasing Amy I was more or less unaware of Kevin Smith’s films. I’d heard of them, and seen Clerks (and was not impressed). That was about it. Then one fine day I was bored and, by pure chance, decided to rent Chasing...

Pros: Decent acting from the two leads...
Cons: Clichés and Plot Holes and Inconsistencies are so hilarious!!!

Here’s the ‘plot.’ Jay and his brother Silent Bob are two airheads who have this tendency to curse t ...

Pros: The script. The hysterical in-jokes and cameos. The incredibly inspired last half...
Cons: Shannon Elizabeth. A few too many gay jokes.

When it comes down to it, there are two reasons I became so devoted to the world of writing. These two influences, you might say, may very well be cliché by now and even expected of such a film fanatic like myself. But I can easily remember the days that...

Pros: Kevin Smith's warped sense of humor once again zings the Hollywood machine
Cons: Gross and vulgar humor and enough profanity to never ever make it on network television

The world, according to Kevin Smith, is a warped place to live...

And rest assured, we'll gratefully shell out whatever money that's necessary to take this fifth trip into the gnarly world that Smith evidently calls his home.

In his...

Pros: Inside jokes (Smith film-specific and Hollywood in general); Affleck, Damon, Biggs.
Cons: Shannon Elizabeth; fart jokes; Shannon Elizabeth; first half of movie; Shannon Elizabeth.

Fart jokes or Hollywood satire? Or both? Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back has a lot of both to squeeze into 1:45 or so, and it succeeds (for better or worse) on both counts.

Ha, Ha! Fart Jokes! Woo-hoo!

I’ve seen all...

Pros: Morris Day, massive amounts of funny, Mewes and Smith
Cons: Profanity, a lot of gags that fall flat, it ends

Yup, time for another foray into the world of View Askew. Truly, the lord has answered the prayers of VA fanatics, (or at least me) by giving everyone's favorite dunderheaded, ganja puffing duo their own film. While relegated to small but usually...

Pros: Funny, great acting, tons of bonus crap, great storyline, Kevin Smith is cool
Cons: some of the humor might make some people mad

A lot of people didn't like this movie obviously because of the crude humor for all 104 minutes of the movie, but I liked it. I've always like Kevin Smith's movies because I used to be a huge comic book freak and he is a comic book writer so I thought I...