10 Awesome Ways Movies Got Back At Critics

7. Jay & Silent Bob Travelled The U.S. Beating Up Online Trolls - Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is the self-aware pinnacle of Kevin Smith's filmmaking career, a gloriously funny stoner road trip where Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith) head to Hollywood to stop a terrible movie being made about the superhero comic book they were the basis for, Bluntman and Chronic.

Countless scenes in the film are devoted to the inane nature of online discussion surrounding superhero movies - a theme that's aged incredibly gracefully.

This feeds Jay's desire to beat the crap out of anyone who's ever besmirched their "good names" on the website Movie Poop Shoot (a gossamer-thin parody of Ain’t It Cool News).

Comic book writer Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck) of course reminds the pair that they can't feasibly go around assaulting everyone who slagged them off online, but in the film's hysterical finale, the duo take their newfound royalty money to travel around the U.S. attacking the hateful online commenters - be they punk kids, businessmen or even priests.

Given the criticism Smith has received throughout his career for his low-brow stoner humour and the "one-note" nature of Jay and Silent Bob, it must've been mightily satisfying to stick it to all the online bile in such shameless fashion.

And it's not even the first time Smith decided to have fun trolling his critics - when Christians protested his classic 1999 religious satire Dogma, Smith disguised himself as a protestor, held up a sign reading "Dogma is dog s**t", and even stayed in-character when he scored a TV news interview.