Although Jay and Silent Bob last appeared on the big screen in 2006’s Clerks II, the duo finally starred in their own movie five years earlier in the form of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, when they traveled to Hollywood to try and prevent a movie being made about the superheroes modeled after them, Bluntman and Chronic.
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is putting these characters through a completely fresh and original narrative, in that they’re headed back to Hollywood to try and prevent a reboot of the Bluntman and Chronic movie from being made.
Far from it, it sounds like they’re a bigger deal than ever.
Okay, so maybe “fresh and original” were poor word choices, but nevertheless, the fact that a lot of Jay and Silent Bob cosplayers will be required for a convention scene means that these characters’ popularity hasn’t died down in the last two decades.