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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (DVD) |
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21/03/02 (284 review reads) |
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Advantages: hilarious, great return cameos, millions of extras
Disadvantages: ends View Askewniverse
Those who are aware of other View Askew productions will know who Jay & Silent Bob are, those who have not been fortunate enough to see any of Kevin Smith's other fantastic movies (a) should wonder what they have been doing while life is passing them by and (b) will not get half of the jokes in this movie and should first go out and buy/rent/steal copies of Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma and watch those first.
Jay & Silent Bob: Couple of sex obsessed stoners who hand outside QuickStop selling pot to kids. Jay does all the talking (and as they say in Dogma "and he will talk") and Silent Bob usually just nods and gestures - although when he does speak, he does so very well. Jay & Silent Bob are best friends, hetro life-partners!
Randall & Dante: Clerks at Quickstop and video store next door, who eventually get a restraining order put on Jay & Silent Bob.
Brodie: After going off to present a TV show at the end of Mallrats, Brodie has now opened a comic book store. It is Brodie who informs Jay & Silent Bob that filming is about to begin on a movie of Bluntman & Chronic, which is a comic book based on Jay & Silent Bob.
Holden McNeil: The comic book writer. Jay & Silent Bob visit Holden to ask for their royalities and are informed that Holden sold his rights to (business) partner Banky (the inker/tracer!!) years ago.
Holden introduces Jay & Silent Bob to the internet (the place where people go to discuss & slate movies or download porn). They discover that people are slagging off both Bluntman & Chronic as well as Jay & Silent Bob themselves. Filming commences this Friday ("today is Tuesday so that gives us 8 days" - Jay) and they decide to go to Hollywood to stop production and therefore protect their good names.
I am not going to give away any more story as I am useless at not giving out spoilers!! Other returning characters include: Banky, Alyssa Jones, Trish "the Dish
", along with returning cast (not playing their original characters) Matt Damon, Chris Rock, Shannon Doherty, and a whole host of others that you will just have to look out for. You can expect the usual amount of gay jokes (but not gay-bashing!) as well as the usual references to other movies. I saw all these movies listed on the internet movie database I couldn't believer how much stuff must have went completely over my head - will have to watch the film a few more times I think!!
DVD
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I bough the region 1 DVD which is a double disc set and well worth the £17.99 I paid for it. The DVD is in dual languages, English and French, with the cover being reversible English/French and the logo on the actual disks being in both languages as well. (I think the disc is actually Canadian rather than American!)
There is a whole host of extras on this disk (I haven't gotten through them all yet, but the cover box boasts that there are over 5 hours of extras!!).
* Feature Commentary Track: I have never watched a commentary track before, but this was great. Kevin Smith, Scott Moiser and Jason Mewes run a commentary right through the entire length of the film - so you watch the pictures but listen to them talking!). It was really funny to listen to and you learn lots of interesting things - things that unobservant folk like me would never notice normally!!
* Deleted Scenes with Kevin Smith & Guests: Eventually got through all 42 deleted scenes. Each one is introduced by Kevin Smith and usually Jason Mewes or Scott Moiser, although there are a couple with Kevin's wife Jen and his daughter Harley as well! The film was given a rating NC17 and they wanted to take it down to an R so they had to take out heaps of stuff, which led to heaps of other stuff having to be taken out too. Well worth watching all of these, and it realy is a shame that they took them out just for the better rating.
* The Secret Stash with
Intros : The secret stash is actually nothing to do with their merchandising but is a colection of ad libbing by Judd Nelson, Will Farrell etc which meakes some really funny viewing.
* Gag Reel with intro: aka "Why Movies Cost so Much" - Kevin introduces this and it is hilarious watching all the mistakes (mainly Jason Mewes!!)
* Internet Trailers with intro: haven't watched this yet but I suppose it speaks for itself doesn't it
* TV Spots: TV trailers for Clerks, Chasing Amy, Clerks: Uncensored, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back Soundtrack, and something else but I can't remember what!!
* Behind -the-scenes featurette: This is just your usual behind the scenes stuff - some of it was covered in the audio commentary and some you have seen elsewhere but it is still quite funny to watch.
* Comedy Central's Reel Comedy : Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back: This is absolutely hilarious - if there is only one thing that you watch then you should make it this. It is setup like the usual kind of interviews with cast, but it is all made up and really really funny. Kevin Smith & Jason Mewes are actors who are in it for the £200 plus the free t-shirt, Will Farrell talks about how they made him use a real gun and he shot an extra (Mooby the Cow)...... you have to watch it to understand!!
* And a heap of other stuff I haven't watched yet (hey, the discs only arrived the other day!): Still Galleries, Storyboard, Morris Day and The Time - Learning the moves, Cast & Crew Filmographies, music videos for Afroman "I Got High" and Stroke 9 "Kick Some Ass", Guide to Morris Day and The Time.
* The DVD -Rom (I don't have a DVD-Rom player so can't watch it) includes Open-Mic commentary, Screenplay Viewer, Cast & Crew Filmographies, Guide to Morris Day & The Time and Web Links.
Technical stuff:
Sound for both is 5.1 Dolby Digital.
Subtitles are in English and Spanish.
Widescreen aspect rati
on is 2.35:1, enhanced for 16:9 TV's
Film Running time is 1 hour 4mins
Dual Layer Format
Canadian Home Video have rated it an 18 - don't know what it will be rated here and Amazon do not have it listed yet!
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- 22/03/02 Thanks for nice comments, and thanks for getting the category for me as well!! For those that care: I used dvdworldusa.com for my cheap region 1 disks..... must go and compare this one to dvdpricecheck!! :0) |
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- 21/03/02 Yup, these two guys made it into my top 10 movie quotes, but I didn't realise this was out on DVD already.
If I can just plug one of my other op's the cheapest prices for all region DVD's delivered to the uk can be found at dvdpricecheck, if you don't find ordering over the net.
The region 2 release of this DVD is not due until October 2002, although it'll be available on rental on 27th May - so if you have multi-region, then the Region 1 disk is the way to go (as usual) |
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- 21/03/02 Quality review. I think it is a shame that they were so obsessed with getting an R rating so the kids could watch, the over forty cut scenes would have made the film much funnier if they were left in. |
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