Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back

I had enjoyed earlier Kevin Smith films like Chasing Amy, but this is the film that made me a fan of the director. It is easily one of the funniest movies that I’ve seen in a long time. Losers Jay and Silent Bob find out that a comic book based on them is being turned into a Hollywood movie, and they aren’t happy about it, mostly because they want a piece of the action. So they take a very eventful road trip to Hollywood to try to get their piece of the pie. And speaking of Pie, among the many quirky characters that they end up encountering on their cross country trek, is American Pie’s Shannon Elizabeth. She and her equally lovely friends convince Jay and Silent Bob to join them in their animal rights crusade which doesn’t go exactly as planned. Additionally, the film is filled with cameo appearances by a number of Hollywood stars, and we get return appearances from other regulars in Kevin Smith’s films, including Ben Affleck. Quite honestly, the fact that characters, and actors, from his past films kept popping up throughout this movie was one of the things that really made it for me.