Through films like "Clerks" and "Mallrats," Kevin Smith has created a universe that moviegoers love to watch, though most
wouldn't want to live there. In his dimension, even the dumbest people speak in fluid, well-punctuated sentences. Everyone watches movies a lot, and everyone swears all the time. It's a world obsessed with minutiae like in "Seinfeld," but with the eloquent language of a Coen brothers film (filtered through a profanity-generating machine). Two of the supporting flavors in Kevin Smith's pop-cultural stew, the vulgar, dope-peddling Jay (Jason Mewes) and his aptly named buddy Silent Bob (Kevin Smith himself), are the center of attention in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," a parody of modern filmmaking that is itself a compelling example of it -- a movie that has room to dish out criticism, because it can withstand the same when it's flung back. Jay and Bob learn that the comic book characters based on them, Bluntman and Chronic, are about to be made into a feature film -- and they're not getting any money from it. So they set off for Hollywood to stop the production.
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