{"id":32392,"date":"2019-12-09T05:10:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T10:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=32392"},"modified":"2019-12-09T05:10:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T10:10:41","slug":"jay-and-silent-bob-reboot-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/09\/jay-and-silent-bob-reboot-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>No one loves Kevin Smith more than Kevin Smith. He\u2019s a fan of not just building this fa\u00e7ade of an extended universe with his films, but the smug idea that he ultimately rejected Hollywood when all is said and done. After endless efforts to hit the mainstream vein, and re-invent himself as a horror director, Smith has come back to doing what he does best: Repeating himself, repeating the same old jokes, and giving his hardcore fans a ton of weed jokes, and near endless pop culture references about \u201cStar Wars\u201d and \u201cBatman.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When Jay and Silent Bob discover that Hollywood is rebooting their movie \u201cBluntman and Chronic\u201d and have taken away their rights to use their actual names, the clueless duo embark on another cross-country mission to the annual Chronic Con to stop it and stop the reboot\u2019s director, Kevin Smith. No seriously. Meanwhile, as they head toward Hollywood, Jay hooks up with an old lover who reveals that he has an eighteen year old daughter that he\u2019s never met before named\u2014sigh\u2014Millennium Falcon. She also<\/em><\/strong> wants to go to Hollywood to screen \u201cBluntman and Chronic\u201d tags along with Jay and Silent Bob while getting in to various mishaps.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s ironic that Smith makes a big deal out of mocking the way that Hollywood is just recycling everything at this point in time, since \u201cJay and Silent Bob Reboot\u201d is basically a refurbished version of \u201cDumb and Dumber To.\u201d We\u2019re back years later with a comedic duo of losers, both of whom are nearing fifty and still dressing like its 1993 (hanging out in front of an empty store front, wrinkles and all). There\u2019s some convoluted plot that lifts them out of their environment, one of the pair learns that he inexplicably fathered a child, and they travel cross country to fulfill some huge goal. \u201cJay and Silent Bob Reboot\u201d seems to be hell bent on establishing a new generation of stoners, while also setting up the \u201cMallrats\u201d sequel, ad nauseum. Smith doesn\u2019t have a script so much as he has an endless series of sketches that are loosely connected to trot out the same fan service we\u2019ve seen over and over.<\/p>\n

He sticks to what he knows his fans will enjoy, and doesn\u2019t feel keen on introducing anything new or out of the box. Everyone from \u201cClerks\u201d and \u201cDogma\u201d makes an appearance, and there\u2019s an awkwardly heavy emphases on \u201cChasing Amy,\u201d all for the sake of droning on and on about the miracles of fatherhood. It\u2019s a scene that stops the movie in its tracks and ruins the momentum however small. Smith parades a ton of celebrity cameos, awkward walk ons, comic book references, and fourth wall breaking all for the purposes of concealing that the script is fairly slim and has nothing to say. At all. Although the movie is about Jay and Silent Bob, Smith mistakenly places the comedic and dramatic weight of the film on his daughter Harley Quinn\u2019s shoulders, and she\u2019s just not a good enough actress to carry the movie.<\/p>\n

She is–at her best–barely serviceable, and is always easily outshined by brief pop ups from superior actors like Ben Affleck, Rosario Dawson, and Melissa Benoist. Even mocking the fact that Smith is pushing his untalented daughter on us doesn\u2019t side step the fact that, yes, Smith is forcing his untalented daughter on us. I\u2019d be shocked if she ever breaks out as anything more than just Kevin Smith\u2019s daughter who was shoehorned in to his latter movies. Even the goofiest stoner comedies had some kind of interesting commentary. All Smith can do is mock age old references to past incidents he\u2019d endured in his personal live and ridicule professional failures like \u201cCop Out\u201d all to please the very hardcore fan base that never seem to get enough of this worn out material. It\u2019s depressingly unfunny, depressingly dull, and just depressing, period.<\/p>\n