Clerks II: Review By deadeyedick79

I remember hearing Kevin Smith say that 'Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back' would be the last movie featuring the dimwitted duo on the silver screen. At the time I agreed with the idea of putting them to rest, after all, they are getting on in age, and, like all things 80's, its best to let them live on in their time and not in ours.

That was, however, before I saw his first film with a more mature take on life, Jersey Girl. In its own right, its not a bad film. Ben Affleck shed his matinee image to go for the single dad back on the prowl tale, and it was touching. But for all its serious themes it kept trying to break out and become another Jay and Silent Bob film. The humor was still fresh from the toilet, even though it had some purifying tablets dropped in it. So is it sad to see Kevin Smith return to form, with donkey love and porch monkeys in tow? Not in the least.

Smith is at his best pushing the envelope. There is a feral quality to his movies that make them both mainstream and cultish. Perhaps its not bad to have your name bring out a sense of whoopie cushion yahoo when people hear it, as long as they know, as is also the case with South Park, that there is also a underlying current of intelligent and relevent topics being anal probed and teabagged.

Kevin Smith broke his promise to lay Jay and Bob to rest. Perhaps they are a little past their prime, but given the choice between them and VH1's bevy of past-their-prime deadbeat sell-outs, Jay and Silent Bob still get my vote, and an extra 15 for a dime and half.