It's the best smile you'll get through the whole movie

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a crude production that relies heavily on low-grade humour, spoof material and big names. No I didn't like it.

Dan Sinclair

This is writer-director Kevin Smith's fifth and final instalment of his New Jersey Chronicles. Others in the series include Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy.

The film centres on two deadbeats, a foul-mouthed wacky baccy fan, Jay (Jason Mewes), and his near silent sidekick Silent Bob (Smith).

Can you guess what's in the box?

When they discover that the comic featuring their alter egos, Bluntman and Chronic, is to be turned into a movie they demand a cut from the comic's creator.

However, he informs them that he has sold the rights to his former business partner who is at present filming the movie in Hollywood.

Riled by some irate internet posts defaming their pulp versions Jay and Silent Bob fear for their reputation and decide to stop the film.

Can Bob stay silent for much longer?

We follow their exploits that take them on a far from straight forward road trip to Hollywood.

The film shares similarities with Beavis and Butthead, Leaving Las Vegas and a host of spoofs. There's the inseparable pair, the influence of drugs and the repetitive reworking of jokes.

From the offset the Jason Mewes character spews out expletives and the humour focuses on indigestion gags and the imitation of sexual acts.

The success of Kevin Smith's previous films Dogma and Chasing Amy pull in an all-star cast.

Tell me again about the Force

Cameos include Carrie Fisher as a nun, Ben Affleck as his character in Chasing Amy and himself, Jason Biggs as the guy who sticks his weener into an American Pie and cannot live it down and many more...

Get over the language and the script does have its highlights - Hitching a lift and sharing a doobey with Scrappy and Scooby Doo, offering more to Carrie Fisher than she ever got in Star Wars and end scenes where the pair take revenge on their internet tormentors.

With the proposed relaxation of the drug laws in Britain it could be said that this movie is well timed. The film even features Afroman's No. 1 track 'Because I Got High', about the dangers of smoking cannabis.

However, the idea of all dope smokers being bums is as outdated as the film's spoof material. Surely it is time to move on from this genre.

With its toilet humour the film may appeal to a youth market. But it's 18 rating will mean that it will miss a large chunk of its potential audience.