The comic 'Bluntman and Chronic' is based on real-life stoners Jay and Silent Bob, so when they get no profit from a big-screen adaptation they set out to wreck the movie.
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...
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Salma Hayek was originally going to reprise her role as Serendipity the muse from
Dogma, working on the Miramax lot. However due to scheduling conflicts she had to drop out. There is a painting of her at the start of the
Scream 3 spoof instead.
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Goofs
Continuity:
When Justice is talking to Willenholly, her left hand moves repeatedly from her knee to the floor between shots.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Silent Bob's Mother:
Bobby Boy, stay here while mommy picks up the free cheese, kay? Here, this will keep the sun out of your eyes.
[puts a baseball cap on his head backwards]
Silent Bob's Mother:
You be good, now.
[walks in store, then Jay and his Mom arrive]
Jay's Mother:
Alright, don't you fuckin' move you little shit machine. Your Momma's going to try to score. Passerby:
What the hell? 'Scuse me. Who's watching these babies? Jay's Mother:
Uh... the fat one's watchin the little one? Passerby:
Oh yeah, nice parenting. Leave 'em out here like that and see what happens. Jay's Mother:
YO, FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING SQUARE! Passerby:
Oh yeah, keep on truckin'! Jay's Mother:
[to infant Jay]
Did ya hear that fuckin' guy tellin' me how to fuckin' raise ya? What a motherfucker, man! Who the fuck does that fuckin' guy think he is? What's the worst fuckin' thing that can fuckin' happen to ya just standing outside a fuckin' store, right? Fuck!
[Jay's mother walks into the record store, leaving infant Jay and Silent Bob in their strollers]
Baby Jay:
[his first words]
Fuck... fuck... fuck... fuck... See more »
Crazy Credits
At the start of the film, the title logo includes the words "View Askew", in the same placement as the words "Star Wars" appeared on the title logo for Empire Strikes Back, The (1980).
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"Boys Better"
Written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor (as Courtney Taylor) Performed by The Dandy Warhols Used by permission of Dandy Warhol Music (BMI) Courtesy of Capitol Records Under license from EMI-Capitol Music Special Markets
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