Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is the fifth movie from Kevin Smith, famous for his cult films Clerks. and Mallrats and the more commercially successful films Chasing Amy and Dogma. The title is a take-off on the second Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back.

Plot

Jay and Bob find out that Bluntman & Chronic, the comic book based on their likenesses, has been adapted into a film in production by Miramax Films. Upon learning of the movie, as well as the negative reaction the movie has received so far, the two set out on a quest to Hollywood, to prevent the movie from being made and tainting their "good name", or at the very least "get motherfucking movie check" from the royalties due them.

Related Topics:
Miramax Films - Hollywood

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On the way, they befriend an animal liberation group called the C.L.I.T., consisting of four women and one man they picked up for the cause. It is revealed that the organization is a front; the man (played by Seann William Scott) is a patsy, intended as a diversion by freeing an orangutan from an animal testing laboratory while the girls rob a diamond depository nearby. Jay cons the man into embarassing himself in order to get closer to Justice (played by Shannon Elizabeth), the most compassionate of the women and the one he finds himself smitten with.

Related Topics:
C.L.I.T. - Seann William Scott - Orangutan - Shannon Elizabeth

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Jay and Bob now must stand in as the patsies; a wildlife field marshall, named Marshall Willenholly (played by Will Ferrell) (Smith admits that the name is derived from the three main characters in the TV show Land of the Lost.) properly blinded to the diamond heist chases them as they (along with the orangutan) make their way to Hollywood.

Related Topics:
Will Ferrell - TV - Land of the Lost

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