I dreaded this movie. I love ‘Clerks’ and all of the other Kevin Smith early works. I wasn’t prepared for Kevin to shit on ‘Clerks’ yet. How the hell do you do a follow up to that, years later and in color none the less? I had heard that after he made the statement that there will be no more “Jay and Silent Bob” films, he made the promise to Jason Mewes that if he stayed sober he could play Jay again. Also, after the crap he’s been pushing out recently, it was time to go back to the well, dick and fart jokes made him what he is today, why turn your back on them? So I understand why he came back to the same format, but why did he have to make a sequel? Yuck!
I watched most of this on-line (Pirating again arrrgh!) and didn’t like what I saw. Last week I saw it while shopping at Best Buy and said, “What the hell, I’ll watch the whole thing and hope for the best, if nothing else, I’ll have the movie to include in my Kevin Smith collection. (No, I did not buy Jersey Girl, I meant for my Jay & Silent Bob collection)
Teresa and I watched it last night and I loved it and hated it. I liked it because it was a decent movie. I hated it for my own STUPID reason.
The run down is this: Rosario Dawson isn’t as hot as they are trying to make her out to be but she is cute in a weird kind of way. Dante looked like he was wearing a hairpiece the whole time. Randall looked like Randall. Jay & Silent Bob; timeless.
The “Quick-Stop” and “RST Video” burn down, Dante and Randall take jobs at Mooby’s, a fast food chain. The movie takes place on Dante’s last day of work. He is moving to Florida with his domineering girlfriend to take a job in his future father-in-law’s car wash. Through the day we see that he is actually in love with his boss, pussy-trolls are keeping good girls safe from fornication and that there is only ONE “Return Of” and that’s the Jedi, not the King. Randall plans a big going away party that ends in a guy blowing a donkey, Dante finding out he knocked up his boss (with whom he is sincerely in love), Dante’s girlfriend finding out and leaving him and then they all end up in jail. In the cell, Dante points out that Randall is always fucking up his life. Randall points out that Dante fucks up his own life and that he is absolutely devastated that Dante is leaving him to move to Florida. In a “Well, what would you do?” moment, they decide to buy the burned down “Quick-Stop” and “RST Video” and be their own bosses. At that point, I found myself wishing there was such a simple solution in real life. Can any of you imagine Fred and me working at our own store? He’s one of the few reasons we haven’t pulled up stakes and gone to PA yet.
So, after seeing the whole thing, I actually liked it. The reason I didn’t like it, was because Teresa liked it. She’s not in the original “Clerks” clubhouse. Not many people were and now a lot more people are jumping in and it’s getting crowded in here. A few months ago I reviewed a movie in which a guy points out this personality flaw in my. He says that some people are upset when their private little thing gets popular. Yeah, I’m still guilty of it from time to time. I just can’t stop some times. I don’t know why… It was a good follow up to Clerks (unless you know the alternate ending of the first Clerks; Dante gets shot and dies as the credits roll) and I am not really upset that it got a little popular; I’m just being funny… No I’m not… Yes I am! Um… Nevermind.
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