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For those of you that havenÂ’t come across Jay and Silent Bob, IÂ’ll tell you a little about their characters. Jay (Jason Mewes) is foul mouthed, jumpy and along with his mostly mute sidekick Silent Bob (Kevin Smith), is into cigarettes of the highly illegal kind.

This story revolves around a road trip of sorts. Jay and Silent Bob discover a movie is being made of the comic book based on them – Bluntman and Chronic. But what inevitably comes with film adaptations is criticism and Jay and Bob take the insults of their alter egos rather personally. So to stop the onslaught off they trot to Hollywood to sabotage the movie. This however is just an excuse to get the boys into lots of scrapes including one with four PVC clad sex kittens. Once they get to tinsel town they meet up with various faces from their past appearances as well as the odd star or two (Mark Hamill appears in a star wars style sketch)

So back to my original question – do they work in a movie of their own? Unfortunately, the answer is…no. The acting isn’t bad - Kevin Smith’s body language as Silent Bob raised the occasional smile, and Jason Mewes gave his usual solid performance as Jay. But after being bombarded by expletives in the first ten minutes, which weren’t actually funny, I lost interest. Once we arrived in Hollywood it got slightly better but I think that was just because you could play spot the star (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Chris Rock). Maybe if it was a late night showing and you were an 18-year-old lad out with your mates after a few beers you might enjoy it, but I certainly didn’t. Jay and Silent Bob should have stayed where they were – nice subplots in much better movies.