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Summary: It's not the movie, accept it and laugh your a** off!
Review: I waited for this collection to come out ever since Clerks: TAS was unforgivably cancelled after just two episodes. The 2 disc set did not disappoint. I watched all six episodes in one sitting, and laughed. I immediately watched all six episodes again with running commentary, and laughed some more. I can't fathom the View Askew fans who bash the show because of it's lack of cuss words. The show was on network TV, Disney-owned network TV, and still managed to be pretty vulgar. How many cartoons out there are poking fun at the Challenger disaster or Schindler's List? The latter gag, which was actually edited out when the network originally aired it, is pee-your-pants hilarious!Most of the shows gags are spoofs of pop-culture, a la The Simpsons or The Critic. But unlike The Critic (which I also enjoy and am in no way dissing), The parodies on Clerks are out of love. The episode that spoofs Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (and The Bad News Bears AND The Last Starfighter) comes off less like a scathing satire than it does a fan letter. Another jewel in this great collection of cartoons is Alec Baldwin's performance as the evil Leonardo Leonardo. His mantra, "Well played," is brilliantly delivered every time he says it. Brian O'Halloran's and Jeff Anderson's reprisals of Dante and Randall are also right on the mark. Unfortunately, fans of Jay and Silent Bob may be disappoined. Certainly the most potty-mouthed in the entire Askewniverse, the cleaned up Jay isn't nearly as funny. The two have their moments though, esp. in their public service announcements and their tour-de-force in the last episode. The DVD presentation is awesome! Everything is sharp and crystal clear. The media and featurettes are great and interesting, though it bothered me that the same exact features were on both discs. And as I mentioned before, the commentary is highly entertaining. You won't learn much about any speciffic elements of the show, but Kevin Smith and Co. are always funny to listen to, and this time they're bitter about the fate of the show. Ultimately, my biggest complaint is that the six episodes made me hungry for more and I have to deal with the fact that there are none. This truly was a great cartoon and it's sad that it was cancelled so quickly while King of the Hill still lives on.
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Summary: absolutely horrible, Kevin needs to apologize
Review: I am a big View Askew fan, but this is just horrible. It just isn't funny except for 2 minutes on one episode. A lot of unfunny stuff is just repeated and repeated. And some alleged jokes are just beaten like and equine carcass. I think Kevin Smith needs to start smoking again, maybe it was nicotine shock or something. He's dillusional, he can't discern to what he thinks might be funny and what the other 99% of us think. I'm real worried about him, he needs to go to a Doctor, maybe a brain tumor. I couldn't even watch them all, I could only stomach up till ep 4.
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Summary: easily one of the best DVD's I bought in a long time
Review: YES there no cusing and no blow jokes but who cares it's well done and very funny. The commentary kicks A** the disk's rule's and the TV spots rule plus the making off. Best disk ever
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Summary: Excellent packaging of very dull material.
Review: What else can you expect from Kevin Smith put through the Disney meat grinder? All of Smith's gritty juvenille charm was left wayside for this project. Writting went nowhere, things happened without any plausable reason, situations and dialogue were tepid at best. The art style atleast translated well in the animation, although it is a tired overused style of character and background. Another boring flat style of filming. Although if you wanted to have complete package of this series, it is here. Kudos to Smith for putting together such a plethora of cool extras such as animatics, commercials and voice tracks. The most entertaining and informative part of the 'Clerks' DVD is listening to the crew comment on the making of the episodes although they really come off as angry jerks. They slag animation director Cheol Lee Hahn from Sunwoo far too much. I work with him, and he does excellent work. Garbage in- Garbage out: you get what you put into the studio overseas, guys. If the animators had as much trouble staying awake working on this series as I did watching it it is a miracle it was ever made.
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Summary: One of my favourites!
Review: I got this DVD a while ago without seeing the series on TV or watching any of Kevin Smith's other works. I purchased this because of the good reviews the show got on the internet. This show is one of the funniest cartoons I've seen and it's too bad ABC didn't support it because it had a lot of potential and during the commentary they talked about some very interesting show ideas. The disc is loaded with extras and will take you a few days to explore them all. This DVD has quickly became a favourite in my collection.
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Summary: "Why are we walking like this?"
Review: Great effort on the part of Smith to make a cartoon worth watching, but I'm inclined to agree with others here that the final result is a little lackluster. Sure, you can try to push the envelope on prime time, but what did they (both Smith's team and the audience) expect? I didn't think they would try to emulate the original "Clerks" movie formula, so the cartoon worked with a recurring cast of lesser characters. It won't satisfy purists, but then, what will? Dante and Randall's characters have evolved somewhat in the transition, but for the most part, its a change for the better. The animation was great with a canny knack of capturing an emotion, which doens't always happen on celluloid. Smith includes loads of in-jokes and cultural references, which keeps the faithful entertained, but those with only a passing familiarity with View Askew movies will be lost. The bonus material ranges from awesome to weak, but I have to wonder what they were thinking by including the same material on both discs?! They could have compressed the episodes onto one disc and used the second to include the extras. Anderson and O'Halloran do a great job, and seeing how Smith seems intent on only keeping Ben Afleck and Jason Lee in his movies, they deserve a second chance. I hate to give less than four stars for the episodes, but the final product pulls it down to three. Roll on J&SB Strike Back...
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Summary: So much potential, nipped in the bud
Review: I'll keep this brief: If you're looking for an exact copy of the movie and will settle for nothing less, skip this. If you're looking for a Simpsons clone, skip this. If you're looking for a very funny, clever, surreal cartoon show that skewers TV, movies, and pop culture in general, watch this DVD. I, happily, fell into the last category. It started out amusing and ended up awfully funny. The saddest thing is that this show had the potential to be so good and it got canned before it even hit its stride. At least we're left with this DVD and the hopes that this hasn't turned Kevin Smith off of TV forever.
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Summary: Kevin Smith, what were you thinking?
Review: This collection is the biggest sink of time and money that I have wasted in some time. Let me start off by saying that I am a fan of Smith's work and own the rest of his works on DVD already and am pleased with them. This collection, however, made me wish I could take him to court to get my money back like the characters do in one episode. In my opinion, the show suffers for two reasons. First off, it left the bread and butter of the movie, the idea that customers are obnoxious idiots, in favor for strained pop culture adventures. Why are Randall and Dante acting out Outbreak, The Last Starfighter and The Bad News Bears? Why are they fighting meglomaniacal villains? They belong in their stores insulting customers. They could just as well have been high school guidence councilors given the time they spent being clerks in the show. Secondly, the show ends up coming up far more hateful than any of his movies. Randall's examination of the all-black jury was bad enough, but his use of the words 'gay' and 'fag' and all the attendant imagery was nothing short of shameful. Smith apparently forgot what he had his Chasing Amy characters say about passive-aggressive gay bashing. Being accused of being gay is a major part of the plotline in certain episodes. I defended Smith's portrayal of homosexuality in Chasing Amy and his frequent pejorative use of the words in his other works, but now I really have to wonder about it. Was he playing for cheap laughs, or was his obsessive use of the terms a sign of something else? All this would be forgiven if the show was at least remotely funny. However, I can only report one out loud laugh and 3 more chuckles throughout the entire compliation. The Jay and Silent Bob intros were a major disappointment, boiling down to "Boy that previous episode was funny, huh? Well, here's episode X." Smith says in the commentary that this was his first collaborative effort, and if this is the end result, I can only hope that it will be his last.
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Summary: Animation Style is Interesting
Review: I'm not a huge fan of Kevin Smith (I enjoyed "Clerks", but not much else under his direction), but purchased this mainly because of my interest in the animation. The visual style of the series and the animation are quite good, but the scripts fall a little flat. There's not much of an attempt to really explore the characters fully so that the humor could flow naturally out of the situations. Too much of the comedy depends on pop culture and self-referential material. I get the feeling that Smith and company didn't put as much thought and development into the series as they could have. ABC was right in cancelling the show -- most of the episodes play like an unsold pilot and just aren't quite there. It's about on par with "The Critic", in that sense, but, even in that show, there was more character development. Smith's intros to the episodes and commentary are annoying -- he needs to stop trying to be Kevin "Slacker" Smith the character and public persona and try growing up a bit. The insights he could provide on development of the series, rather than the bathroom humor and ragging on ABC, would be appreciated. Would be a good set for anyone interested in learning more about animation and perhaps getting a few ideas on making highly stylized characters and backgrounds in their own work.
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Summary: Big Als review
Review: I have to admit that I was skeptical when I heard that there would be a Clerks cartoon released on DVD. I was a big fan of the movie, as well as all of all the other Kevin Smith movies, but I thought that Clerks just shouldn't have a follow up. It was one unusual day in the life of two average clerks. However, after buying the DVD, I was pleased to find that it exceeded my expectations and was AWESOME. Part of the reason that I liked the DVD so much was because of the voice-overs by the stars of the movie, Brian O'Halloran, Kevin Smith, ect. Also, it was the funniest thing ive ever seen. The cartoon was well drawn, and the characters were incredibly life-like. The 6 episodes are centered around the adventures of Dante and Randall, the two clerks from the first movie. One of the episodes have them fighting for their jobs against the antagonist Leonardo Leonardo, while another has them trapped in a freezer with Jay and Silent Bob. Whatever the story is though, it is funny and well-thought out. Kudos to Kevin Smith on a job well done. I only hope this DVD can hold me until Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back comes out in theaters.
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