JAY & SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK

STARRING Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Shannon Elizabeth, Jason Lee, Ben Affleck

WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL? The Director of Clerks closes up shop.

A scourge to catholics (DOGMA), Smith may soon irk yet another group with his fifth flick: his fans. With Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, the indie auteur is retiring the cast of slackers and mallrats who have populated his films since 1994’s Clerks. “I’m going to be 31 in August,” Smith says. ” I’d like to afford myself a shred of dignity before my kid’s old enough to notice her old man’s a walking, non-talking cartoon.” Mewes is bummed to see it end: “I wanted to be doing Jay until I was 40.” At least he’ll go out with a semi-bang. “I’ve kissed on screen before,” he says of his encounter with American Pie’s Shannon Elizabeth, “but never any tongue action.”

This Dimension comedy has the dubious duo trying to sabatoge a Miramax movie inspired by a comic book based on them. Backed by a $20 million dollar budget, Smith is promising slick visuals from Small Soldiers’ cinematographer Jamie Anderson and 220 digital effects. Jokes Smith, who has perhaps moved his camera total of two feet in four films: “You can’t mock hollywood with a static two-shot.” (Aug 10)

SPECIAL EDITION DVD JUNE 26, 2001

TWO-DISC DVD RE-RELEASE WILL INCLUDE EXCEPTIONAL ADDED VALUE ELEMENTS INCLUDING AUDIO COMMENTARIES AND DELETED SCENES

Culver City, CA (4/19/01) — On June 26, 2001 Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment will release DOGMA SPECIAL EDITION DVD. From director Kevin Smith (Clerks and Chasing Amy), DOGMA features an all-star cast which includes Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, Linda Fiorentino and Alan Rickman.

* All-Star Cast: Matt Damon (”The Legend of Bagger Vance”), Ben Affleck (”Reindeer Games”), Chris Rock (”Lethal Weapon 4”), Linda Fiorentino(”Men in Black”), Salma Hayek (”Time Code”), Alan Rickman (”Galaxy Quest”), Jason Lee (”Almost Famous”) and Jason Mewes (”Scream 3”)
* Written and Directed by Kevin Smith (”Chasing Amy”)
* 1999 Theatrical Release
* Original Essay by Kevin Smith

DVD ADDED VALUE ELEMENTS

* Cast and Crew Audio Commentary by Director Kevin Smith, Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes, Producer Scott Mosier and Vincent Pereira
* Technical Audio Commentary by Director Kevin Smith, Producer Scott Mosier and View Askew Historian Vincent Pereira
* Complete Set of Storyboards from Three Major Scenes
* 100 Minutes of Deleted Scenes with View Askew Crew Intros
* Weblink to the Official View Askew Site
* Hilarious Cast and Crew Outtakes
* Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash Spot
* Saints and Sinners Talent Files
* Bonus! Follow the Buddy Christ for More Hijinks with Kevin Smith, Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes and More!
* Talent Files (Kevin Smith, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Chris Rock, Alan Rickman, Jason Lee, Salma Hayek and Jason Mewes)

SYNOPSIS

One of the most talked about movies of the year is also one of the funniest! In this hilarious comic fantasy from writer/director Kevin Smith, two banished angels (Damon and Affleck) find a loophole that would get them back into heaven. The only snag? They’ll be destroying existence in the process. In an effort to stop them, the overworked voice of God (Rickman) taps cynical mortal Bethany (Fiorentino) to save the world by preventing the angels from reaching their unholy destination, New Jersey. Throw in two unlikely prophets (Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith), the quick-witted, yet little-known thirteenth apostle (Rock) and a sexy, former muse with a case of writer’s block (Hayek) and you’ve got an hysterical and thrilling race against time.

Rated R
128 Minutes
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Surround
Format: Widescreen
Languages: English, French and Spanish
Subtitles: English, French and Spanish
Trailers: “Dogma”
SLP: $29.95
DVD #05614
UPC #0-43396-05614-5
TRADE INFORMATION
Order Date: May 29, 2000

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His work on “SNL” was also noticed by cult-film director Kevin Smith, who cast him for an unusual role in his upcoming release, “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.” “That was fun. We just finished shooting that three weeks ago,” Morgan said. “I play a drug dealer that’s in a [labor] union. It’s really funny.”

“Salon’s about-average review of the apparently-fascinating new book about Tim McVeigh, American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & The Oklahoma City Bombing,” siva writes, “contains one particularly jaw-dropping passage, wherein McVeigh justifies the “collateral damage” of the bombing by comparison to the technicians and functionaries of the Empire killed by Luke Skywalker when he blew up the Death Star. An astonishing mix of megalomania, childhood fantasy, and Joseph Campbell-ian aspirations. Or Maybe he just saw Clerks?”

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From the latter link, a college essay on Kevin Smith: “When the characters in Smith’s films are not discussing sex they are likely discussing pop culture, specifically Star Wars movies and comic books. They talk not just about liking a movie or that comic book, but the sociopolitical implications of pop culture that are rarely examined. Randal and Dante spend an entire scene discussing the ramifications of Luke’s destruction of the second Death Star in Return of the Jedi. Since it was still under construction at the time of its explosion, it was likely still being built, and since the Empire simply did not have the manpower to complete a job of such magnitude alone, there must have been independent contractors working on the Death Star. Randal feels these contractors were innocents unfairly caught up in someone else’s politics.”