Jay and Bob are heading to Hollywood to stop a film based on themselves… again, and they pick up a nefarious group of girls along the way… again. Owen Gleiberman Oct 16, 2019. Now they head to Hollywood to stop the film from being made. Getting the gag is half the fun, and it’s done well. Jay and Silent Bob’s anti-Hollywood sentiment hold also seems at odds with just how many celebrities stop by to make cameos in Reboot. It may be his raunchiest film in years, but it’s also his most emotionally intelligent. Full Review Like pretty much all Kevin Smith movies, it’s a great time and very entertaining, but I wish that this one made me laugh more. As in his last few films, Smith (“Tusk,” “Yoga Hosers”) shows his age by taking on more than he seems comfortable attempting, so he delivers not enough of what he thinks we still want from him (catchphrases and jort jokes), and too much of what he thinks he wants from us (ex: a stage for Harley Quinn Smith, his aspiring, and not untalented thespian daughter). "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" is like an answer to that question. A satire of sequels, remakes, and (of course) reboots that always happens to be all three of those things, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is both a flippant look at how the nerd industry is eating itself alive, and a more sincere — if still very stupid — tale about making room … Jay and Silent Bob inadvertently sign away their names and rights to the new Bluntman and Chronic movie. Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is essentially The Irishman or Avengers: Endgame of the View Askewniverse. It's packed with the usual jokes, cameos, and a bit of heart this time around. Overall, Jay & Silent Bob Reboot is a disappointing return for the chronic-loving duo. I mean it's literally a reboot satirizing reboots. Simon Abrams is a native New Yorker and freelance film critic whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Village Voice, and elsewhere. There’s even an unintentionally hilarious, if very awkward, cameo from Ben Affleck, who practically crushes his ham-bone to dust while strenuously winking at viewers about his brief time playing Batman. It’s an hour and three quarters of spotting familiar faces and collecting in-jokes. Acting as this site’s designated Kevin Smith apologist, it is my duty to report that “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot”—a road movie about the title characters (Smith and Jason Mewes), a couple of middle-aged pot-heads who travel cross-country to “Chronic-Con,” an equally over-produced celebration of Bluntman and Chronic, Jay and Silent Bob’s pot-themed superhero alter-egos—is the most uninspired and unfocused load of fan service that Smith has yet unleashed on his remaining hardcore audience. The rest of Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is perfectly 'okay'. Ultimately though, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is a film for the fans. By … 60. Smith also perfectly illustrates the difference between being self-conscious and self-aware by flattering an audience that, by this point, has stuck by him through a lot of dreck, with self-deprecating humor about how he knows he sucks (yes, there are multiple “Cop Out” jokes, and even a couple about “Tusk”). 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. Review: Stoner buddies Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) are what unifies Smith’s seven-film View Askewniverse – nine films if you count Steve Stark’s Smith-written animated feature Jay & Silent Bob’s Groovy Cartoon Movie! 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Overview - Jay and Silent Bob Reboot have the two iconic title characters scrambling to make it to Hollywood in order to stop the reboot film they are the basis for yet again. 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 … If you're a big fan of Jay and Silent Bob, then you'll … Jay and Silent Bob Reboot isn't more than the sum of its parts – it is entirely parts, bits sewn together with a vague goal at the end that ties a neat bow, surprisingly emotionally, for the viewer. Read a selection of the 33 available reviews to … A hardcore fans-only version of Kevin Smith bingo on the big-screen. There are some bright spots, as you might expect from a buddy comedy whose $10 million budget seems to have been mostly spent on stunt-casting actors and comedians from Smith’s previous New Jersey/View-Askew-niverse films, including Joey Lauren Adams, Rosario Dawson, and Justin Long. The depressing stoner comedy sequel “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot” makes “Jay and Silent Strike Back” look like “Clerks.” If that sentence reads like no-brow hieroglyphics, you are probably not the target audience for “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot,” which is for Kevin Smith fans only. Though its meta-heavy plot gets tiresome after a while, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is a successful return to form for Kevin Smith. Smith often calls back to lame jokes—usually about how gay sex is apparently as weird as pot is cool, which are especially embarrassing given the average cast member’s age—that were already mono-tired in the dumb, but mostly satisfying “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back,” with a mawkish subplot involving Jay’s frustrated attempts at bonding with Milly (Harley Quinn Smith), his estranged, Chronic-Con-obsessed daughter. With Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, the prospect of watching Smith once again utilize two of his most popular characters in a story that’s both nostalgic and a commentary on today’s culture (Hollywood and otherwise) seemed like a fun way for the writer/director to stretch a bit with ideas relevant today blended with the fun of the old. The Blu-ray comes with a 1080p HD transfer and a lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio track, along with some excellent bonus features. The Ripple Effect: Daniel Kaluuya and Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. on Judas and the Black Messiah. It draws attention to itself for what it is, displacing 90s veterans Jay and Silent Bob in … So “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot” begins by reassuring viewers that it isn’t just another reboot, which Smith has one authorial mouthpiece (Jason Lee) define as a soulless cash-in that features just enough callbacks to keep fans interested, but is otherwise only distinguished by its younger and more diverse cast (“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is unfortunately cited as an illustrative example). We encourage you to read our updated PRIVACY POLICY and COOKIE POLICY. Jay And Silent Bob Reboot Review: Kevin Smith's Comfort Zone Is A Nice Place To Be Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is showing in select theaters. Starring Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Fred Armisen, Jason Lee, Justin Long, Shannon Elizabeth, Rosario Dawson, Ben … The numerous instances of scenes starting with Jay and Silent Bob entering a room and the camera panning to reveal a celebrity make it feel like the movie was written around how many names Smith could pull out of his considerable rolodex of famous contacts. So “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot” begins by reassuring viewers that it isn’t just another reboot, which Smith has one authorial mouthpiece define as a soulless cash-in that features just enough callbacks to keep fans interested, but is otherwise only distinguished by its younger and more diverse cast (“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is unfortunately cited as an illustrative example). Jay and Silent Bob Reboot 2019 ★★★ Watched Oct 18, 2019. Jay and Silent Bob Reboot plays in theaters Oct. 15 and Oct. 17 via Fathom Events. But for the fans Reboot is a triumph and arguably Kevin Smith’s best work to … That’s the one-joke premise of Jay And Silent Bob Reboot, in which the title characters return to the big screen for the first time since 2006’s Clerks II.Of course, Smith was doing the whole comics-inspired, fan-base-cultivating shared-universe thing (complete with a Stan Lee cameo) way before the Marvel Cinematic Universe was even a twinkle in Kevin Feige’s eye. Reboot, and Smith himself, encourage a respect for the past but never at the expense of keeping a weather eye on the horizon, which makes whatever ends up coming next from the writer-director all the more intriguing. Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is a solid sequel from Kevin Smith and a love letter to his View Askewniverse. Jay and Silent Bob inadvertently sign away their names and rights to the new Bluntman and Chronic movie. Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Reboot wasn't shown to critics and that's really too bad Back to video “Watching (critics) beat the s— out of it was sad,” he wrote. Tonally, it hits the comedy mark and delves into a new world of responsibility for Jay and Silent Bob. It just doesn't a very good job. Not as funny: pretty much any scene involving Milly and her friends, a quartet of teenage girls that are unapologetically horny (they want to have sex with Chris Hemsworth), smoke weed (they eat potent edibles), and distrust authority figures (they sometimes repeat Harley Quinn’s dad’s old jokes). Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is now playing on a U.S. roadshow tour. Jay and Silent Bob Reboot might be a little self-indulgent, but that seems to be the point. Directed by Kevin Smith. “Reboot” is more of an ego trip for Smith, an amiable, creatively frustrated pop artist who survived a major health crisis—one that even he knows he can’t shut up about: it’s the subject of a handful of “Reboot” jokes, of varying quality—and now wants to celebrate himself for being older despite not being much wiser or funnier. 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. Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is a satire of Hollywood’s obsession with reboots and remakes while also being exactly what it is satirising. Smith seems to know how thin his carbon-dated material is—there are some laughs in scenes where he, playing himself, rambles about Kevin Smith, Hypeman whenever he’s not letting a boom mic crash on his head—but “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot” often bears this mopey self-assessment out. Reboot is a fine addition to View Askewniverse — Smith’s fictional universe that stretches from 1994’s Clerks via Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and … Directed by Kevin Smith. Film Reviews of Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019) How did people react to Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019) after watching it? Even as an admirer of Kevin Smith, I felt like this was purely a nostalgia play designed to get old fans back for a few laughs at the same old stuff. Along the way Jay discovers that he is a father. Clerks - loads his Jay and Silent Bob Reboot with ironic meta content and wokeness in the desperate hope that, by being self-aware, self referential and all-inclusive, his viewers will mistake the film's crapness for intelligence and progressiveness. Manny Liotta’s review published on Letterboxd: Felt like 2 hours when it was only 90 minutes but I cannot complain about the sheer stupidity every scene has due to the fact that it was either: 1/2 extremely well … It is 95 minutes long and is rated R for pervasive strong crude sexual content, language … This last point is the biggest sticking point: had “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot” been funnier, it wouldn’t need to be anything else. Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, 2019. Short Jay and Silent Bob Reboot review originally intended for Sight & Sound, although I don’t believe it was published in the end. After learning that a ‘Bluntman and Chronic’ film reboot is being made, stoners Jay and Silent Bob return to Hollywood to stop it from being made. The stoner icons who first hit the screen 25 years ago in CLERKS are back! Jay and Silent Bob Reboot feels somewhat similar, reaching back to the 2001 comedy that itself was reaching back on a half-decade of inter-connected Smithian characters. It's breezy, fun and often very funny. Cameos by Fred Armisen, Tommy Chong, Val Kilmer, and both Method Man and Redman are also mostly funny thanks to these performers’ knack for scenery-noshing. With Joey Lauren Adams, Ben Affleck, Fred Armisen, Diedrich Bader. Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019) Ethan’s review published on Letterboxd: Saw this at the reboot roadshow tonight. While it was nice to see the mischievous pair back on the big screen, Reboot was, unfortunately, in need of a script rewrite. So not one for the wider audience. Title – Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019) Director – Kevin Smith (Dogma) Cast – Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Jason Lee, Shannon Elizabeth, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Chris Hemsworth Plot – Lovable slackers Jay (Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith) must once more head to Hollywood to stop the newest addition of the Bluntman and Chronic series that is trying to overtake their identities. Milly and her friends also illustrate the limits of Smith’s self-diagnosis: a Middle Eastern character is named Jihad (Aparna Brielle) while deaf protagonist Soapy (Treshelle Edmond) and Chinese-American podcaster Sue-Lynn (Sue-Lynn Ansari) are both along for the ride. When Jay and Silent Bob discover that Hollywood is rebooting an old movie based on them, the clueless duo embark on another cross-country mission to stop it all over again!