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Chasing Amy review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 01/24/2012
Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck) and Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) are comic book artists. Holden meets Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams) at a comic-con. Holden meets Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith) for lunch and gives advices. First laughable scene was when Alyssa kisses her partner and Banky claps. A few memorable lines: Holden – “It's not who you love, it's how.” Banky – “Variety's the spice of life.” Hooper – “You got cracker farm boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy, blond hair, blue eyes. And then you got Darth Vader, the blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god!” The only abysmal aspects this reviewer had were the Alyssa and Holden conversations, as if she was whispering when talking and the overlong conversations which slows the film. Chasing Amy …
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2/4
"Chasing Amy" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 01/20/2012
Two comic book obsessed twenty somethings find their friendship threatened when one of them falls for a lesbian. The first hour of Chasing Amy is a typical example of Kevin Smith's take on relationships, pop culture and dick jokes, but it's done in a rather more mature and better observed way that his previous films (particularly the appalling Mallrats). Affleck and Lee's friendship seems believable enough to be genuine and there are are fair few genuinely funny moments, usually provided by Dwight Ewell's amusing gay black activist. Unfortunately, once the romance begins in earnest, Smith starts trying to be "profound" and it turns into a contrived photo love story with lots of whining, shouting and tedious soul searching. It's a fair attempt at making a chick flick that nerdy guys can …
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3.5/4
Kevin Smith's Underlooked Gem
Def Man - wrote on 04/09/2009
This is probably Kevin Smith's most underlooked gem. "Clerks" was remembered for the raunch. "Mallrats" for it's box office failure, "Dogma" for it's religious pathos, and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" for it's slapstick. But this one doesn't receive the credit it deserves as the best film from the Askewniverse that is not "Clerks".
The story is simple. It's about a comic book artist who falls in love with a lesbian and convinces her to go straight. The rest of the movie is tied together with social commentary and the predecessor to the "bromance" genre with Jason Lee trying to win back Ben Affleck from Joey Lauren Adams.
The movie is a classic example of pure brilliance when you can blend pop culture references with real life situations (take for example the questioning of the …
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3/4
An all around good movie.
TheWolf - wrote on 07/30/2007
Chasing Amy is a great movie! When I first saw it in the theaters, I hated it. Yep there I go contradicting myself, but its true. When I first saw this movie I was expecting another great Clerks or Mallrats style movie. I thought that it would have a lot of interesting points and great back and fourth dialogue and as everyone else though... lots of Jay and Silent Bob! But when it was winding down and the duo did appear on the screen I felt that it was a total let down, Silent Bob wasn't doing his usual routine of keeping quiet and then issuing one sentence of wisdom before the end of the movie, instead he had this extra long monologue that made me feel as though he had just given up on what the character was about.
Well here I am 10 years later and I have an entirely different out look …
