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} Jay & Silent Bob Retaliate is the fifth motion-picture show from either Kevin Smith, famous for his cult films Clerks. and Mallrats and the supplementary commercially successful films Chasing Amy and Dogma. A title occurs as choose-off on the 2nd Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back.

At a instance Smith said that this would become a go of his films to feature Jay and Silent Bob. He has since proclaimed that it may come out in the film Clerks II: Passion of the Clerks. It includes many information to Smith's earliest films, including brief appearances by several characters from either victims films. Actors reprising preceding roles around Smith films include Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, Joey Lauren Adams, and Brian O'Halloran.

This motion picture occurs as prime case of the phenomenon of fanservice. When maintaining its have plot, a moving picture has about constant information to retiring Kevin Smith/Jersey Trilogy film, contains multitudinous cameos from either either actors ranging from George Carlin and Chris Rock to Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill, in-jokes, & court to pop-culture icons, especially a aforesaid Star Wars motion picture.

A soundtrack to this film features a 2001 Afroman hit, "Because I Got High", whose music video was directed by Kevin Smith & featured a characters Jay and Silent Bob.

Characters
A independent characters include: Jay - (Jason Mewes) see Jay and Silent Bob. Silent Bob - (Kevin Smith) see Jay and Silent Bob. Holden McNeil - (Ben Affleck) A comedian book writer whose comic book, "Bluntman and Chronic" is according to Jay & Silent Bob's survives & is attend become manufactured into the feature. Understand Chasing Amy. Dante Hicks - (Brian O'Halloran) Justice - (Shannon Elizabeth) A Charlie's Angels-esque animal activist who falls in love with Jay.

Plot

Jay & Bob buy out that Bluntman & Chronic, the comic book based on their likenesses, has been adapted into a film in production by Miramax Films. Upin learning of the film, besides when a veto reaction the film has received and so far, them placed out on a quest to Hollywood, to prevent a motion-picture show from either existence manufactured & tainting their "good name", or even at a super least "get [their] motherfucking movie check" from either a royalties due the two.

En route, it befriend an carnal liberation class action known as a C.L.I.T., consisting of four women and one man they picked up for the cause. These are revealed that a organization occurs as front; a human (played by Seann William Scott) is a fall guy, meant as a diversion by freeing an orangutan from an animal touching laboratory when the girls rob a diamond deposit nearby. Jay cons a human into embarassing himself sequentially for nearer to Justice (played by Shannon Elizabeth), a virtually all sympathize by having of the women & the a single he finds himself smitten with.

Jay & Bob today must sub when the soft touch; a wildlife field marshall, known as Marshall Willenholly (played by Will Ferrell) (Smith admits that a title is from either the terzetto independent characters in the TV show Land of the Lost.) properly blinded to a diamond heist chases them when it (along by using the orangutang) have gotten to Hollywood.

Box Office

US Gross Domestic Take: US$ 30,085,147 = Gross Worldwide Return: $33,788,161

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