Clerks - The Animated Series Uncensored

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Summary: Clerks Uncensored
Review: A spin off series of the movie, Clerks Uncensored only had two episodes shown on ABC in 2000. We get to watch Dante and Randal deal with more problems within 6 episodes. Seriously, Kevin Smith is a genius! Awesome show, too bad ABC cancelled it. Watch it!

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Summary: "Oh my God, Bear is driving! How can that be!?!?"
Review: These cartoons of Kevin Smith's critically acclaimed "Clerks" are hilariously funny. Dante and Randall play off of each other's words and thoughts brilliantly, much like the movie. The characters in the film are very animated to begin with, so making a cartoon series from it's basis makes sense, along with a lot of laughs. They tackle much of the same type of topics as they do in "Clerks", pushing the jokes much further in comparison, creating original and unique ideas untouched by your basic adult cartoons.

Fans of "Clerks" will find these 6 cartoons very entertaining. The same actors are used as voices, and they did an excellent job of matching up the animations with each characters personality. These cartoons move very fast, rattling jokes off, one after another, much like other comparable adult cartoons.

It's just too bad they stopped after 6 episodes. If they continued making them, "Simpsons", "South Park", and "Family Guy" would have some stiff competition on their hands. If they would have kept making them, they would have only gotten better with time, much like many cartoon series.

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Summary: Sexy Randal The Pharaoh Wizard
Review: Have you ever dreamed of what the Clerks film would be like animated? Well, look no further. This beautiful two-disc collection will give you everything your dreaming heart desires and more! Director Kevin Smith held back nothing to get this series going and sadly, as most GREAT series do, it was canceled after only two episodes. What you need to realize is that this show had more humor in it than anything on television today. It could have easily surpassed the Simpsons with the direction that Smith was taking it. Continual film references, Star Wars moments, and even parodies only enhanced this series to a whole new level. What made this short lived series even better is that we were already familiar with the characters and the setting, the only new parts were the stories and, my favorite, Leonardo Leonardo. I can't believe they had Alec Baldwin do the voice. He was hysterical.

Some of my favorite scenes are:

1) the McDonalds characters as town figureheads
2) Judge Reinhold and the banana scenes
3) Japanese animation
4) Yipes, just yipes
5) Sexy Randal The Pharaoh Wizard
6) The flashback episode (clip episode #2)
7) IKEA and Leonardo Leonardo
8) Everything else in between!

The only aspect of this series that I did not like was how the DVD used Jay and Silent Bob (the live characters) to introduce the next episode. I could have used without them. Nonetheless, this was imaginative, creative, and a perfect extension of the film masterpiece. A MUST HAVE for anyone that loved the original film.

Grade: ***** out of *****

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Summary: Just as good as the movie.
Review: My brother owns this DVD, and one day I decided to watch it. Once again it proved that Kevin Smith is awesome. The show may have only lasted 2 episodes, but the DVD has 6 episodes (4 unseen) with introductions by Jay and Silent Bob. What more could you want? You get a cartoon that follows the movie, and real life introductions to the episodes (and a pretty cool theme song). I have to get a copy of my own really soon.

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Summary: It's A Tragedy This Comedy Was Cancelled
Review: I remeber when this show premiered four years ago on ABC. There was a good amount of hype, so I decided to check it out. At that time, I wasn't old enough to understand and/or appreciate many of the plotlines, paradies, and jokes. Also, the show only lasted two episodes, so I didn't really get into this show until I saw the movie Clerks a few days ago (I am going to review the 10th Anniversary edition in September). The movie was hilarious, and so I decided to check out the series. Make no mistake, the series is also funny, but it's funny for different reasons. Obviously, Kevin Smith couldn't get away with the things he could in the film, such as the profanity. However, in the series, he could do a lot more with visuals. Afterall, the show is animated, and the movie was made for less than $30,000.
The show follows the exploits of Quick-Stop clerk Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran), RST Video clerk Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson), and uber-slackers, Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith). They quartet always seems to get into some weird situation, like when they got trapped in the freezer in the second episode and started to reminice about their lives. Or there was the time when the end of an episode was "lost" and was replaced with an anime style ending.
As I said, the show is very funny, but it did lack two things from the movie that they could have done in the show. One of them was customer interaction. The clerks rarely had to deal with customers, and those moments were some of the funniest in the films. Also in the film, there were some random conversations from time to time about almost nothing. They didn't have enough of those in the series.
I must say, I am surprised this show only lasted two episodes. I thought it was very funny, and even if the show was doomed, how does one tell something like that after only two episodes?! Furthermore, someone thought that the DVD's would sell, so I am really confused. Well, if you are a Kevin Smith fan, you should consider checking this out.
Snootch to the nooch.

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Summary: NOT THE MOVIE
Review: If you can get past the fact that THIS IS NOT CLERKS THE MOVIE (hinted at by the fact that it's in colour and animated...) then you'll see that there's actually some pretty good stuff in here, such as the kid with the helmet, "the matrix", the apocolyptic carnival, the japanamation style ending to one of the episodes... it's network television people; they can't swear, they can't have sex with dead people in the bathroom... it's not the movie. Get over it, and enjoy one of the funniest cartoons ever drawn before a live studio audience.