After his 2017 heart attack, Kevin Smith was lying in the hospital thinking, "I can't believe the last movie I'm made was Yoga Hosers!" After surviving, he launched into a new creative burst and got together all his old friends to make a new movie, the Reboot.
All his old friends from the 90s have gone on to big things: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, his own daughter Harley Quinn Smith. So they're all back in what he called "a high school reunion with everyone you wanted to see". This movie is playing like a concert tour, a road show, with Smith and Jason Mewes (Jay) live. It's a nice way to watch the movie and see a live show at the same time.
If you haven't seen all his movies, you'll figure them out soon enough. As a Generation X kid, he takes the touchstones of our youth, the mall, the convenience store, the fast food restaurant and turns them into everyday existentialism, with occasional interruptions from the real world such as customers, security guards and store supervisors.
The plot is like Dumb and Dumber (no surprise). Two goofball slackers must travel across the country to stop someone from stealing one of their stoner ideas. Along the way, Jay meets up with his old girlfriend (Shannon Elizabeth, that 90s icon) who tells him that her daughter (Harley Quinn Smith) is his. They all end up going to Chronic Con where Jay finally has a chance to grow up after all. Not a bad story. It lives up to its definition of "reboot".
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