When Jay and Silent Bob learn that their comic-book alter egos, Bluntman and Chronic, have been sold to Hollywood as part of a big-screen movie that leaves them out of any royalties, the pair travels to Tinseltown to sabotage the production.
The picture lacks the mix of innocence and savagery that branded [Smith's] other films.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
24 Aug 2001
fresh:
Smith, coming off the madly audacious Dogma, knows that he's slumming this time and revels in it.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Aug 2001
rotten:
I admit to enjoying -- in a drunken, half-asleep kind of way -- parts of this ramshackle road movie with its running Miramax guest stars and its endless homo jokes.
– David Edelstein,
Slate,
31 Aug 2001
fresh:
The perfect curtain call for these much-loved, wise but oh so stupid slackers.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
Has the lazy, bric-a-brac atmosphere of one of those blown-off movies made during down time on some bigger affair.