Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a 2001 American satirical stoner buddy action comedy film written, co-edited, and directed by Kevin Smith. The film stars Jason Mewes and Smith, respectively, as the two eponymous characters, along with Ben Affleck, Eliza Dushku, Shannon Elizabeth, Will Ferrell, Ali Larter, Jason Lee, and Chris Rock. It is the fifth film in the View Askewniverse. The story follows Jay and Silent Bob as they discover a movie is being made about their comic book alter-egos, Bluntman and Chronic, but they've been cut out of the profits, leading them to travel to Hollywood to sabotage the film's production. The title and logo for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back are direct references to The Empire Strikes Back (1980).

Plot

Dante Hicks and Randal Graves get a restraining order against Jay and Silent Bob, finally fed up with their drug dealing outside the strip mall where they work after Jay and Silent Bob tell a pair of teenagers that they were married in a Star Wars-themed wedding. Not allowed within 100 feet of the strip mall for at least a year, Jay and Silent Bob visit Brodie Bruce at his comic shop, where they learn that Miramax Films is adapting Bluntman and Chronic, the comic book based on their likenesses.