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Summary: THE MOST FUN WITH YOUR CLOTHES ON!
Review: This film was shot in Black and White due to cost factors, but it ends up working perfect, where Color would have fallen short. It takes place mostly between two stores, a Convenience Store, and a Video Store. The dialog between the two clerks and other main characters makes this the funniest film I have ever seen. It needs to be listened to, and not talked through, and watched at least 5 times to be appreciated, and to catch all the subtle aspects to this film which makes it great. The reason that B/W works so well is because it is like watching the film on those B/W video security monitors. This film is not Great, it is Amazingly Great, and required viewing for anyone with a sick sense, or sarcastic sense of humor!!!!
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Summary: Berserker!!
Review: This movie is a classic in the world of indie films. Actually the best of the best. Kevin Smith is a film making wonderboy. This movie is extremely funny. It follows the day of Dante Hicks, a guy who gets called into work at the Quick Stop Groceries in Jersey and complains all day to his friend Randall about how he wasnt suppose to be there today. But I think the best part of this movie is the fact that Walt Flannigan and Scott Mosier play about five different people in the movie. Its entertaining to try and see who they will be next. And of course this movie is the beginning to the Jersey Trilogy and the beginning of the best duo to come along since the Odd Couple, Jay and Silent Bob. You cant call yourself a Kevin Smith fan if you do not own this dvd, so go now...hurry press add to cart and own this movie! Plus the alternate ending, music video and commentary are good extras.
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Summary: The Must See of all must see's.
Review: This low-budget black and white film, is one of the funniest movies of our time. Jeff Anderson as "Randal Graves" plays a frustrated video rental store clerk next to "Dante Hicks" Brian O'Halloran's convenience store. This duo is absolutely hilarious, and not to mention Jay and Silent Bob. This is a classic in my book.
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Summary: Kevin Smith's first film still shines
Review: Winner of Sundance's Filmmakers Trophy in 1994, Kevin Smith's Clerks has a certain humor about it that shines through the whole film. Shot entirely in black-and-white, the film revolves around the characters Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randall (Jeff Anderson). The film, although incredibly funny, deals with some serious emotional issues such as death, relationships, odd sexual fetishes, and hockey (the most serious of all emotional disorders). Yet, it is Kevin Smith's ability to make these heavy issues funny that makes this movie work.Clerks is the first of the five movies in the New Jersey series (the others being Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back). If you've enjoyed any of Kevin Smith's other movies, I really recommend seeing Clerks. It lays the basis for a few of the characters in the other films: Jay and Silent Bob, the men of the Hicks family (Brian O'Halloran plays a different Hicks in each movie), Rick Derris, Julie Dwyer, Heather Jones (sister of Tricia Jones in Mallrats), Caitlin Bree, and the cousin Walter that Randall and Brodie share. Clerks really is a remarkable film, especially considering that it was shot from start to finish in one day. Sure it's raw, but that's part of its charm, and that's why it's so enjoyable. While Kevin Smith has made four movies since this one, I still keep coming back to watch Clerks more than any of the others.
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Summary: 1 of the best-ever....
Review: This movie, to me, is a true classic. It is what The Sound of Music and Gone With the Wind and Casablanca is to the past generation of film lovers. By technical standards, this is not at all a perfect movie. But by my standards, it is more than perfect, the characters, the dialogue, the way you feel like you know these people and wonder why this movie has to end and not just continue being a part of your life....everything. This is one of my all time favorite movies, and unless you only enjoy special effects type movies with no story or character development, you will love this too.
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Summary: Great Movie!!
Review: Clerks is a great movie. I'm a Kevin Smith fan, which you may have to be to enjoy his films. This one is small, tight, and very well written. The entire movie covers just a single day. It's about friendship and it's about love and it's about how rare it is to find a woman that'll bake you a lasagna and bring it to you at work, the day you weren't even supposed to be there.
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Summary: Very funny and yet cheaply made!
Review: I loved this movie and I laughed heartily throughout. The characters, although all a bit goofy, seem like people I have met and that gave it a true to life feel that made it very easy to watch. I also loved the fact that this was shot on a tiny budget proving ,once again, that you don't need millions of dollars, Julia Roberts and exploding battleships to make a movie that audiences will love. You need what you get in "Clerks": good actors, a good script and a good director.
Recommended
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Summary: Gotta Love It
Review: Okay, I went back and watched this again after all the other Kevin Smith movies came out. This movie, in the "View Askewniverse", is essential, because plot lines, jokes, and people from most of Smith's other movies all have their seeds in "Clerks". Sure, Dante's whiny, Randall is an *ss, the acting is lousy, and the film maker's personal obsessions make up the majority of the dialogue, but, well, it's just damn funny - and it's happening right now at your neighbourhood 7-11.
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Summary: These ¿Clerks¿ deserve your business
Review: If you have yet to even see "Clerks" on video or TV, (and if you say it on TV, I just hope it was on HBO or something that won't edit it) what are you waiting for? You have deprived yourself of one of the best indie films of the 1990s, not to mention one of the better gut buster comedies ever! "Clerks" is the first (major) project by Kevin Smith and it follows the lives of a few New Jersey based characters, but mainly Dante. Dante is a clerk in a convenience store and he pretty much hates his miserable job, which is destroying him slowly. His spicy little girlfriend encourages him to go back to school. Randal, his outspoken best friend and a worker at the video store next door, tires to help out his bud but often helps to paint Dante into a corner. Also, Randal's definition of friendship is wavy. You wouldn't think that a little quick-stop store would be much for an exciting adventure, but craziness does ensue as both Dante and Randal meet an annoying cast of customers (most notably Jay and Silent Bob) and somehow manage to squeeze a hockey game and a funeral into the day. And I haven't even told you just some of the snide sarcastic jabs that keep getting thrown around. Comedy is a defense mechanism and it works!
The great thing about Clerks is that it doesn't try for cheap laughs, yet just every movement and line is great comedy. Of course, its not like "Clerks" is a drama, but its just that nearly everything about it gets you. Yes, it's all in a rough black and white and the budget is nill, but the material is so strong that it doesn't matter! "Clerks" is the rare gem of a comedy that, luckily, never got a real squeal. There was the little seen yet entreating "Clerks" cartoon, but it really left you wanting more. Of course, Kevin did continue to use the characters again (Jay and Silent Bob mostly), but never totally rehashed the Clerks story that much. "Clerks", the movie is classically irreverent and real, not like most of the insufferable sight gag shtick that people are so attracted to. The DVD has a hilarious audio commentary, a Soul Asylum video (ah, remember them!) and deleted scenes and s shocking alternate ending. The audio commentary is funny and gives us a lot of insight as to how the movie was made, some of the people in it and give us a few laughs along the way. A complete DVD to go with one of the most memorable little films ever.
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Summary: Kevin Smith's brilliant debut....
Review: Kevin Smith's debut film, Clerks, is a brilliant piece of comedy. This film, like other Kevin Smith films, is carried largely by the quality of the screenplay's dialogue and the quality of actors chosen for it. While the acting in this film, being his first, independently produced, film, does not approach the level of Chasing Amy or Dogma, Jeff Anderson and Brian O'Halloran, it does not need to. The comedy in the film manages to be new and entertaining despite its seemingly base, retread topics: drugs, sex, and of course, hockey and Star Wars. Smith's mastery of comedic dialogue is evident in this film, his very first, and Anderson and O'Halloran are an above-average comedic duo to carry the material--Smith was lucky to snag them for these roles. The film exhibits the potential that would be more fully realized in Chasing Amy and Dogma, Smith's later masterpieces.
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