Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back A Movie Review	MPAA Rated - R It's 1:44 Long A Review by The Dude on the Right

The story of the movie goes loosely like this. Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) are the likenesses of the comic book heroes Bluntman and Chronic. Unbeknownst to them their likenesses have been sold to Miramax for an upcoming movie, but they aren’t getting their cut, their movie money as it was, and track down Holden (Ben Affleck). He can’t help with their movie money, but he does introduce them to the world of the internet where their comic book characters, aptly named Jay and Silent Bob, are being dissed by many an internet poster. Now the real guys, Jay and Silent Bob, are pissed, not because they aren’t getting their money, but because their names are being turned into mud on the internet and this may lead later to their not getting to sleep with women. So they take it upon themselves to head to Hollywood from their Jersey home to try and stop the movie from getting made.

As the movie goes on we get to see their crossing the country antics, trying to hitch rides (George Carlin has his way – they have theirs), hooking up with the Scooby Doo gang, and finally getting hoodwinked into working with a group of hot babes as would-be animal right’s activists. Finally it’s on to the Miramax lot where our heroes infiltrate the set and try to stop the film.

Sure, the premise doesn’t sound that funny, almost generic, but for this review I’m trying to give as little away so I don’t ruin any of the jokes for you, and the movie is so full of jokes I probably could give some away and it wouldn’t spoil anything, but I’ll keep my yap shut this time.

I will, however, give you a little warning – if you aren’t familiar with any of Kevin Smith’s earlier works involving the Jay and Silent Bob characters, well, there will probably be many times during the movie when you wonder what some of the other people in the audience are laughing at. This is because some of the jokes in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" relate back to Kevin Smith’s movies like "Clerks," "Mallrats," "Chasing Amy," and "Dogma," and this movie has cameos from just about every influential character present in each of those films. But even if you haven’t seen any of those movies, don’t worry because "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" is still filled with tons of laughs for you Kevin Smith virgins out there because this movie is really a no holds barred laugher at the movie industry as well as a deeper look into our heroes.

To get the most out of "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" I almost recommend the following. On Saturday morning head to your local video store and buy "Clerks," "Mallrats," "Chasing Amy," and "Dogma" if you haven’t already done so. Invite your friends over, and starting at about 11AM, plop yourselves on the couch to reacquaint yourselves with the cast of characters. It will now be around 8PM so head over to your local gigaplex, get your tickets, popcorn and soda, and be prepared to laugh your collective asses for what I found to be the funniest in the series of comedic yet edgy body of work by Kevin Smith.

With that I have to give "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" 5 stars out of 5. Sure it’s vulgar, sure it makes fun of just about anything possible, sure it has references to blowjobs and fucking, but there isn’t any nudity (well, alright, Jay shows his ass but that’s not the nudity I was looking for). I guess you can’t have everything in a film, but I’m still giving it 5 stars. Like I said before, if you aren’t an avid Kevin Smith viewer you may miss out on a few jokes, but you still won’t be disappointed. If you are an avid Kevin Smith viewer you might almost piss your pants.

That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

A Dude postscript to this review: After seeing "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" the first time, well, like most movie goers I bolted as the credits rolled.  Then, after writing my review, I did some other reading where someone said not to leave until the credits are done.  Go figure.  So, I go and see the movie again (it was just as funny, if not more because I picked up on a few more jokes, the second time around), and waited for the credits to end.  I won't spoil it, but there's a cute thing tagged at the end of the movie.  I don't know if that was worth waiting for, but what was really better was getting to listen to the full, unedited version of "Because I Got High" from Afroman.
Yours truly, DOTR