Clerks II (2006)

Brian Christopher O’Halloran
Jeff Anderson
Rosario Dawson
Jason Mewes
Kevin Smith
Trevor Fehrman

Directed by Kevin Smith

Plot: Ten years ago best friends Dante Hicks and Randal Graves were New Jersey mini-mall clerks still slacking off together in their early 20s. Now working in the fast-food universe, Dante and Randal have managed to maintain, and even hone, their in-your-face attitudes, agile skill with vulgarities and unbridled love of screwing the customers. But they're also faced with such shocking prospects as marriage, leaving Jersey and finding real careers. Dante and Randal invade the world of Mooby's fast food restaurant, where the slogan is "I'm Eating It." Behind the counter, where the only other employees are an uber-nerd and an entirely too sexy manager, Dante and Randal are free to offend anybody and everybody who so much as orders fries in their inimitably irreverent way. But, even as riotous debates rage between them over such burning matters as George Lucas v. Peter Jackson v. Jesus, change is on the horizon. When Dante announces that he's going to leave Jersey forever and marry Emma Bunting, Randal plots a going-away party so shocking it will draw the police, the fire department and potential protests from PETA, while altering their lives forever.

Review: It is no secret that I am a massive Kevin Smith fan. I will watch pretty much anything he is involved in. I have enjoyed every single film he has done, including Jersey Girl. (I know I am the only one.) The original Clerks is one of my favorite movies, so just the thought of this sequel was enough to get me excited and with good reason.

This movie was excellent. I loved it almost as much as I loved the first one. The only reason I still liked the first one more is the originality of it. These films, like all Kevin Smith films, are dialogue driven. Although not big stars, I think Brian O’Halloran & Jeff Anderson deliver some of the best dialogue rants of all time. They play off of each other brilliantly. My fear with this movie was seeing how well these characters play off of each other after so long. After seeing the movie, there is no worry, it’s like they stepped off the set of the first movie right into this one. The new characters played by Rosario Dawson and Trevor Fehrman fall right into the world of Kevin Smith as though they have always been there. I loved this movie and think it was a perfect cap to finish off this storyline as well as an opening to be able to revisit these characters.
 

Film Review Index