Jay & Silent Bob Get Irish: The Swearing O’ The
Green (Industrial DVD set)/Tom Green Live (Image DVD/both 2012)
Picture: C Sound: C+ Extras: B-/C Concerts: B-/C
Now for
more stand-up style comedy releases on DVD…
Jay & Silent Bob Get Irish is a follow-up to the new series
of sit-down routines in which the duo talks to and jokes with the audience for
an evening and will say just about anything they can think of that started with
Jay & Silent Bob Get Old which
we reviewed a while ago at this link:
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/11757/Blue+Like+Jazz+(2012/Lionsgate+Blu
This is
somewhat more of the same with some new jokes, happy accidents and new news
items to comment about non available for the other shows from the previous
release. Jason Mewes seems to be doing
better and Kevin Smith is a little more energetic here as compared to the
previous shows. The two main shows are
just fine and as quality as those from the previous set, plus we get a bonus
performance taping from Las Vegas
and 10 minutes of a new simulated sex routine with Mewes as the extras
here. Great for fans and not bad for
anyone looking for raw humor, it has been issued just in time for St. Patrick’s
Day.
On the
other hand, we have Tom Green Live
which is most shocking in showing that the unfunny would-be comic (he is just a
guy who does tremendously outrageous things, but they are not really funny) is
still alive and a little fatter. He is
also doing as much introspecting and talking as telling any jokes, including
dealing with politics in his 54 minutes show here from Canada. He comes across as sad and though he is
together (one could make the case he was in as bad a shape as Mr. Mewes was and
likely worse) he has little new to offer and when all is said and done, this is
for fans only if that.
You could
do worse, but not by much, making this more an odd curio than anything
else. A featurette about how his cable
access TV show was picked up by MTV with plenty of archive footage is the only
extra here.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image on both DVDs are softer than I had
expected with motion blur and a generally lackluster presentation. Jay
may have some more blue than Tom,
but Tom is softer overall. The lossy
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo presentations in both cases fare better with audience
audio in the background rightly, but nothing sonically shocking or problematic,
which means they do the job.
- Nicholas Sheffo