Released just in time for Comic-Con, here's everything you might have missed in the first
trailer for Kevin Smith's long-awaited Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.
As a wise man once said:
"um… snootchie bootchies?"
The title of Jay and Silent Bob Reboot tells audiences exactly what it is a super meta
reboot of Smith's 2001 film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
In the original Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, our dim-witted stoner protagonists traveled
to Hollywood to shut down a movie version of Bluntman and Chronic, a comic book that
imagines Jay and Silent Bob as marijuana-themed superheroes.
That film was lampooning Hollywood adaptations.
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is, you guessed it, lampooning Hollywood reboots by using
the exact same plot: the studio is now rebooting the Bluntman and Chronic film, so Jay and
Silent Bob have to once again go to Hollywood to stop it.
Expect a lot of fourth-wall breaking inside jokes.
"What do you guys think about this reboot?"
"It sucks!
There, I said it.
And who's directing it?
Kevin f------ Smith?!"
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot looks to be a franchise-capping movie, pulling characters from two decades'
worth of interconnected Kevin Smith movies.
Rosario Dawson appears in the trailer, likely reprising her role as Becky from Clerks II.
Matt Damon found one of his earliest roles in Smith's Dogma, and in Jay and Silent Bob
Reboot, he returns as Loki, the avenging angel he played in the latter.
Damon's buddy Ben Affleck is also a Smith veteran, and he appears in the trailer as
Holden McNeil, the comic book artist who created Bluntman and Chronic in Chasing Amy.
Also on hand at that convention: Jason Biggs and James Van Der Beek, the original Bluntman
and Chronic from the movie-inside-of-a-movie in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
And in this film as in the last Jay and Silent Bob movie, the heroes find out about the movie
version from comics lover Brodie Bruce, still portrayed by Jason Lee.
It's not just old friends making cameos, there are plenty of new faces too.
In a cheeky bit of self-referential humor, former Batman Val Kilmer plays himself, playing
Bluntman, with Supergirl's Melissa Benoist acting as Chronic.
In other cameos from new cast members, Donnell Rawlings from Chappelle's Show heads up a
SWAT team, Craig Robinson plays a judge, Joe Manganiello is a bailiff, Justin Long plays
a lawyer, and Fred Armisen shows up as an unlucky Uber-type driver.
Even some other famous screen stoners make an appearance: rappers Method Man and Redman,
as well as the legendary Tommy Chong.
And there are also some new characters as well.
Shannon Elizabeth reprises her role from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back as an old love
interest of Jay's, but this time she has a surprise: two daughters, one of which is Jay's
love child played by Kevin Smith's actual daughter, Harley Quinn Smith.
Everyone knows Smith is a huge comic book fan, so it's no surprise that there are a
ton of nods to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the Jay and Silent Bob Reboot trailer.
Chris Hemsworth, famous for playing Thor in the MCU, shows up briefly.
Kevin Smith, as Silent Bob, gets involved in some kind of action sequence that finds
him inside of a high-tech suit clearly inspired by Iron Man.
David Dastmalchian, who portrayed Russian hacker Kurt in the Ant-Man movies, makes an
appearance as a high-strung SWAT team member.
And just like in an actual Marvel movie, there's even a Stan Lee appearance of sorts Jason
Lee can be seen wearing a T-shirt bearing the face of the dearly departed Marvel master
and cameo king.
Finally, the first and coolest cameo in the Jay and Silent Bob reboot trailer isn't even
by a person it's by a run down old building.
Yes, fans of Kevin Smith's Askewniverse may recognize the building as the location of
Smith's first film, the beloved cult classic Clerks.
We can't wait to see what other easter eggs await when the film hits theaters on October
15th.
See you there!
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