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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back on DVD
• Music videos • Dolby Digital 5.1 More DVD info... |
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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back on DVD
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Filmtracks Editorial Review:
The music for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, though, stops a few steps short of being a full-blown parody effort. Perhaps the best example of a top notch, silly, parody score in the last five years was Muppets from Space by Jamshied Sharifi, who incorporated a perfect blend of snazzy lounge pieces with overwhelming orchestral sequences of action. Venable's score concentrates on the urban accoustics that you would come to expect for the title characters, with lengthy sequences of this score devoted to the performances of drums and electric guitars. Electric organs, keyboards, and countless rhythms punctuate several scenes of the more sensuous kind, with the girl fight at the end tearing into a full electronica statement of synthesized noise. Interestingly, since the film was also treated with a explicit-lyric song album release, the mass of movie-goers who actually went to see this film in the theatres are probably going to be more interested the song album, coupled with the pop rhythms on the score album. Left out of the mix, for much of the score album, is Venable's orchestral material. In sum, the orchestral music for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is leagues behind Sharifi's Muppets from Space, and levels out at about the lower end of John Debney's auto-pilot parody work. Depending on Venable's experience level with this kind of genre, perhaps this was a worthy accomplishment. As far as statements of popular themes, Venable does snag a few measures from the Star Wars action cues in the 23rd track, but other than that, he doesn't quote enough thematic material from pop culture to make this score stand out. The orchestral title theme is an abbreviated cross between the themes of The Shadow and The Peacemaker, but never fully expands to a lengthy enough orchestral performance. Unlike David Newman's Bill and Ted parody music, Venable's chorus never really takes flight, used merely as slight fifteen second bursts of God-like sound. Track 25 is the only reflective and substantial orchestral cue on the entire album, providingly a surprisingly enjoyable keyboard performance for the characters' more sensitive side. In the end, though, there simply isn't enough enjoyable stand-alone music from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back to make many people excited about this album. Parody scores are supposed to be over the top, and while Venable did an adequate job in producing a score that would enhance the film, he stopped a few flamboyant steps short of making a memorable or interesting piece of music on its own. Unless you really need a token souvenier from the Kevin Smith films in orchestral form, I recommend that you explore some of the more creative parody or farce scores on the market. **
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