Clerks 2
Kevin Smith's sequel to his own indie, slacker hit (1994’s Clerks). Ten years on, Dante (O'Halloran) and Randal (Anderson) remain prime examples of white suburbanites content with no ambition - elevating doing nothing from a lifestyle choice to a moral principle. Says Smith: "It's about what happens when that lazy, 20-something malaise lasts into your 30s. Those dudes are kind of still mired, not in that same exact situation, but in a place where it's time to actually grow up and do something more than just sit around and dissect pop culture and talk about sex".
Film follows the two at their new job at Mooby’s, a local fast food chain, and reaches new limits of gross-ness (there's donkey sex). Dante is at risk of settling down, planning to wed his controlling fiancée Emma (Schwalbach) and take up her fathers offer for a ‘real’ job. Meanwhile Randal - always the more hostile of the two - starts to become overwhelmed by his own rancor.
- Director:
- Kevin Smith (Jersey Girl, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Clerks)
- Writer:
- Kevin Smith
- Cast:
- Brian O'HalloranJeff AndersonRosario DawsonTrevor FehrmanJennifer Schwalbach SmithJason MewesKevin SmithJason Lee,Ben Affleck
Reviews & comments
Not as good as the first but still funny
First of all if you havent seen ther first Clerks then go out and rent it its really is a cult classic shot in black in white about a bunch of slcakers in there twenties with Kevin Smith as Silent Bob and Jay so many funny intertwined story lines this is a follown on about these slackers but set 10 yrs later now in there thirties there still a bunch of no...
Better than the first.
Clerks was a big part of my, and many other's, teenage years. Clerks 2 gives the story a good continuation, and probably an end. The antics of Dante and Randall just get better and better as the movie runs. With spirited conversations about the Transformers, an on-going argument about which is the better trilogy; Star Wars or Lord of the Rings, and the...
The Washington Post
pressClerks II finds Smith up to the profane, raunchy, profoundly humanist mischief of which he alone is the master. This is a lewd, lascivious, exhilaratingly life-affirming celebration of misfits and the misfits who love them...
Rolling Stone
pressAny movie featuring a guy who has sex with a donkey -- he calls it "interspecies erotica" -- cannot be accused of playing it safe. You too may want to see if a dude with a mouthful of donkey spunk really swallows...
Premiere Magazine
pressPart of the Clerks charm was that Kevin Smith made it for $27,000, and a bigger budget doesn't really help this kind of tale's authenticity...
New Zealand Herald
pressBut it's largely rambling and only fitfully funny, throwing in music montages and a dance sequence in an effort to shake itself out of its self-induced stupor...
Hollywood Reporter
pressIt has enough laughs, character arcs, politically incorrect rants and a satisfying emotional ending to more than justify this whim on Smith's part...
Film Threat
pressUltimately, Smith finally achieves that perfect balance between humor and heart that he's been dancing towards with all his films...
Christchurch Press
pressAvoiding the excess of characters that blighted his last few films, Smith's focus on Dante, Randal and the small Mooby's crew pays huge dividends with their personalities shining through... The easily offended and faint of heart should give this a wide berth, but, like me, there will be a large audience who will be disgusted but just can't look away...
The Washington Post
pressClerks II finds Smith up to the profane, raunchy, profoundly humanist mischief of which he alone is the master. This is a lewd, lascivious, exhilaratingly life-affirming celebration of misfits and the misfits who love them...
Rolling Stone
pressAny movie featuring a guy who has sex with a donkey -- he calls it "interspecies erotica" -- cannot be accused of playing it safe. You too may want to see if a dude with a mouthful of donkey spunk really swallows...
Premiere Magazine
pressPart of the Clerks charm was that Kevin Smith made it for $27,000, and a bigger budget doesn't really help this kind of tale's authenticity...
New Zealand Herald
pressBut it's largely rambling and only fitfully funny, throwing in music montages and a dance sequence in an effort to shake itself out of its self-induced stupor...
Hollywood Reporter
pressIt has enough laughs, character arcs, politically incorrect rants and a satisfying emotional ending to more than justify this whim on Smith's part...
Film Threat
pressUltimately, Smith finally achieves that perfect balance between humor and heart that he's been dancing towards with all his films...
Christchurch Press
pressAvoiding the excess of characters that blighted his last few films, Smith's focus on Dante, Randal and the small Mooby's crew pays huge dividends with their personalities shining through... The easily offended and faint of heart should give this a wide berth, but, like me, there will be a large audience who will be disgusted but just can't look away...
Not as good as the first but still funny
First of all if you havent seen ther first Clerks then go out and rent it its really is a cult classic shot in black in white about a bunch of slcakers in there twenties with Kevin Smith as Silent Bob and Jay so many funny intertwined story lines this is a follown on about these slackers but set 10 yrs later now in there thirties there still a bunch of no...
Better than the first.
Clerks was a big part of my, and many other's, teenage years. Clerks 2 gives the story a good continuation, and probably an end. The antics of Dante and Randall just get better and better as the movie runs. With spirited conversations about the Transformers, an on-going argument about which is the better trilogy; Star Wars or Lord of the Rings, and the...
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