Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie

I honestly rate "Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back" as one of the funniest movies. But this... man I dunno what's up. It's just not funny. None of the plot, gags, situations or lines are funny, Nothing is original. I believe it takes genius to make stupid things funny. It's really lacking here. But enough on the content. What about the animation? Well it's awful. Badly drawn, no style. Not in a funny way like South Park. Badly animated, but not in an aesthetic way like TV-anime where frames are dropped and motion is reduced to the bare minimum using ingenious methods. No, it's just really poor. I like Kevin Smith's movies up to around Clerks 2 then it all went to crap. I actually think Jay and Silent Bob hold their own as characters, while Blunt Man and Chronic is just an empty void of infantile ideas with no backbone.

Jay and Silent Bob hit the lottery jackpot, and use their cash windfall to become crime-fighting superheroes.

This short film should have been along the same lines and the same animation style as the failed (but loved) cartoon series. This, however, is not the case, and rather seems to use "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" as its jumping off point. From there, it is an endless stream of jokes that are crude even by Kevin Smith's standards (the obsession with penis jokes, ejaculation and anal sex never stops).

Smith's legions of fans seem to be going strong. Shrinking, perhaps, but still a powerful force, and surely many will watch this film. One suspects, however, that few will really enjoy it.

The highlight of Kevin Smith's Comedy Writing has to be Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. This movie split my sides from beginning to end.

This latest effort, looks like a hash and rehash.

Back in 2001, pot humor was fresh and edgy. Nowadays with 26 states having some legal medical pot on their books and a rapid number of states getting ready to legalize, it's so ho hum now. Time for a new shtick.

The villains. Ugh. The villains. Puerile stuff. Somebody needs to explain to Kevin Smith that he's a bit over-fixated on Dick jokes & cum humor. He comes off as a 12 year old who just discovered his first wet dream.

There are too many in-jokes that are obviously derived from his podcasts to be of much entertainment value to me. Honestly, I tried listening to a couple of the podcasts and found them to be, voilà, a lot of Dick jokes and pot humor. It gets old fast, as did this cartoon.

The animation quality is what you'd expect for $69K.

This movie was a first time watch for me and while I found it to be good, it was also very disappointing especially given that Kevin Smith wrote it.

Positives for Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie! (2013): The animation here looks silly, but it matches the tone and approach of the movie. There is some investment with seeing Jay and Silent Bob playing superheroes and fighting supervillains. And finally, the comedy in this movie is pretty good for the most part.

Negatives for Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie! (2013): This movie feels like it was directed by someone who didn't care or understand these characters and that's because the movie wasn't directed by Kevin Smith. All of the humor feels like the most generic body humor that would coming from a 13-year old edge lord which is odd given that Kevin Smith wrote the screenplay. It honestly feels like the director took Smith's screenplay and chose to go a different direction with the material.

Overall, while I had some fun with this animated movie, I also can't get over the fact that this movie was a big disappointment for me. I didn't hate the movie, but I was expecting some much more from it.

Disappointingly stupid. I expected BAD but this was worse than that. Full of forced jokes as well as cheap animation