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3. Bluntman & Chronic - Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Who among us doesn't love a good old-fashioned trainwreck? And by all the evidence presented in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, the Bluntman and Chronic movie would've made Morbius look like The Dark Knight.
Throughout Kevin Smith's meta comedy, we're given an extensive look at the campy superhero movie's production, all while Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith) - who the characters are based on - try to stop it from getting made for fear it will ruin their "good" reputations.
Bluntman and Chronic is directed by extremely uppity filmmaker Chaka Luther King (Chris Rock) and sees Jason Biggs and James Van Der Beek playing the title characters, while Mark Hamill portrays the villainous Cock-Knocker.
Yet Jay and Silent Bob's efforts to sabotage the production inadvertently result in them ending up in the movie themselves as stand-ins for Biggs and Van Der Beek in some scenes.
Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back ends with the movie's premiere, and though we don't see any completed footage from the film itself, the reactions from the exiting moviegoers says it all.
Randall (Jeff Anderson) calls it "worse than Clash of the Titans," while Dante (Brian O'Halloran) complains that he was played by Judi Dench, Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams) resolves that it was at least "better than Mallrats," and Hooper X (Dwight Ewell) calls it a "90-minute long gay joke" before comparing it to Batman and Robin.
Say no more - we're in.