Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) on Netflix
Jay and Silent Bob lose their spot outside the Quick Stop to a restraining order, then learn Hollywood is adapting Bluntman and Chronic, the comic based on them, without paying them.
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Plot summary
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a tale of adventure on the open road. When Dante and Randal (of Clerks fame) get a restraining order to keep the punchy Jay and his hetero life-mate, Silent Bob, from selling drugs in front of the Quick Stop convenience store, their lives are suddenly empty. They find new purpose when their friend, Brodie, informs them a movie is being made featuring two infamous characters based on their likenesses. After visiting one of the creators of the Bluntman and Chronic, Holden McNeil, they set out to get what fat movie cash they deserve and hopefully put an end to people slandering them on the Internet. Along the way, they learn the rules of the road from a hitchhiking George Carlin, ride with a group of gorgeous jewel thieves, and incur the wrath of a hapless wildlife marshal for liberating an orangutan named Suzanne. The quest takes them from New Jersey to Hollywood where a showdown involving the police, the jewel thieves, and the Bluntman and Chronic filmmakers will decide the fate of Suzanne, Jay, Silent Bob, and their good names.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Kevin Smith said on his podcast that the film was a "headache" to make, mostly owing to Jason Mewes's drug and alcohol abuse; Smith threw him out of his car on their way to the set, and Mewes nearly got into a fist fight with producer Scott Mosier after coming back drunk for a re-shoot.
- Three weeks before release, in August 2001, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation attacked the film for an alleged "overwhelmingly homophobic tone"; former GLAAD media director Scott Seomin asked Smith to make a $10,000 donation to the Matthew Shepard Foundation and to include a reference to GLAAD's cause in the ending credits.
- Several scenes had to be cut from the theatrical release because the film initially received an NC-17 rating from the MPAA, and Smith says in the audio commentary that it took three submissions to the board before the film finally earned an R rating.
- A finished animatronic was dropped from the film: special makeup effects supervisor Vincent Guastini said it was complete and everything had been rehearsed, but "once the lawyers got wind of the sequence, it was not long before the scripted scenes were pared down".
- The film's plot was heavily inspired by Chasing Dogma, a comic book miniseries that Smith wrote in 1998 and 1999 to explore events that happened in the Askewniverse between Chasing Amy and Dogma.
