CLERKS II, 2006
Movie Review

After Randal’s clumsy actions result in the ’Quick Stop’ convenience store being burnt to the ground, Dante and Randal work in a fast food restaurant. On Dante’s last day, before he leaves for Florida with his fiancée Emma, Randal decides to throw him a going-away party that no-one will ever forget.

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REVIEW:

In 1994, Independent director Kevin Smith released his debut film ‘Clerks’, and it kick-started his career in a completely catastrophic manner. The release of ‘Clerks’ was met with wonderful acclaim; not just from critics (that saw this film as type of Trojan horse for other aspiring independent filmmakers) but also from the ‘generation X’ audience that seemed to be founded in the early 90s. This audience felt they finally had a voice with much of the reasoning being focused around Smith’s cult phenomenon.

Smith has made a great career (albeit, not entirely independent as his first film was) out of small, low budgeted comedies involving very human and potty-mouthed folk. Since the release of ‘Clerks’, Smith released another 4 films from his ‘New Jersey chronicles’ – starring himself and best friend Jason Mewes as the naive, dope dealing duo, Jay and Silent Bob. After ‘Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back’ (Smith, 2001), Smith rested his chronicle that gave him his name; his next film was ‘Jersey Girl’ (Smith, 2004). Whilst this film (in this reviewer’s opinion) was not as atrocious as others may make it out to be, it perhaps wasn’t the ‘Kevin Smith’ flick fans came to love. As Smith himself jokes, his next film would bring him ‘back to the well’. He would return to (as always) write and direct another instalment in his ‘New Jersey chronicle’; this time making a sequel to Clerks, the grainy black and white film that gave the man his credibility he still has today – Clerks II.

‘Clerks II’ starts (as mentioned, in black and white) with Dante (Brian O’Halloran) opening the ‘Quick Stop’ convenience store - the setting of the first film. As he opens the shutters, he sees that the store is on fire (as the film turns to colour). It is revealed that Randal (Jeff Anderson) is responsible for this, because of his forgetfulness to turn appliances off overnight. As they are now jobless, they need to find another job; they end up working for the fictional, fast food restaurant - introduced in Smith’s earlier films - ‘Mooby’s”.

One year on, it is Dante’s last day; not just for Mooby’s, but in New Jersey as he is leaving for Florida the next day to live a new life with his fiancée, Emma (played by Smith’s wife, Jennifer Schwalbach-Smith). Like the first film, there is a generous helping of memorable scenes with contrary customers and (with the now sober and enlightened) Jay and Silent Bob. As the two best friends work their final shift together, Randal is struggling to come to terms with losing his best friend for a woman who clearly isn’t right for Dante. Randal organises a going away/bachelor party involving, ahem, ‘interspecies erotica’, that goes wonderfully wayward.

Smith’s return to the type of very rude, crude and honest comedy is a welcomed return to form. The script is possibly the best Smith has written to date - if not that, then it’s certainly the most laugh-out-loud he’s ever written. ‘Clerks II’ is funny, it’s sad and it is a brilliant, brilliant sequel to the original and it’s one of the best examples I’ve seen of how sequels should be handled. Smith’s appreciation of human relationships, sexuality and characters truly shine in this brilliant instalment to his chronicle and brings it brilliantly full circle. Its function as a conclusion works great, but there’s something inside this reviewer that really hopes Smith will revisit his ‘New Jersey’ chronicle again in the future...

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