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Review: Kevin Smith's debut does come off as painfully amateurish at points, and is a touch awkward on the start up, but those are my only real qualms. Other than that, this is a highly entertaining, dialogue-driven, original, crass, and generally rewarding comedy. Fans of Tarantino-style dialogue (extensive philosophizing on extremely trivial things) will love this. Fun stuff, and much better than the films Smith has done since, including Dogma.
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Summary: Low-Budget Brilliance
Review: The DVD is worth the extra money, if only for the hilarious version in which the video of the movie is played while the cast comments on each scene. Among other things, Jason Mewes (Jay) is basically passed-out drunk during the commentary and keeps yelling "Snoochie boochies!"
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Summary: Low-Budget Masterpiece
Review: The most refreshing low-buck comedy in a long time. Jay & Silent Bob alone are worth the price of admission. The acting isn't great, but the dialogue more than makes up for it. And hey, what do you expect for a $100,000 movie.
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Summary: Devistatingly funny and poignant
Review: Clerks is a masterpeice. Kevin Smith managed to completly convey the dreary existence of 90s youth in suburban America. It isn't a pretty picture, this movie is gritty and challenging, at times. I couldn't stand it the first time I watched it. It is difficult to choose whether to like or hate Dante, the main character. The same can be said of his anti-social compatriots, as well as the vast majority of the characters, though some are easier to hate than others. The result is a compelling complexity, which, along with the amazing wit, makes this a classic, must have film. You dont even have to ever worked as a clerk to get it, these characters resonate.
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Summary: I wanted to like this movie
Review: After all the great stuff I had deard about Clerks, I really was predisposed to like it. It seems just like the kind of film I would love.I didn't love it. I didn't like it either. I just couldn't get passed the horrible acting from virtually the entire cast. These guys make Kevin Costner look good. OK I got that off my chest. I was also jolted by the consistently bad direction, and trite dialog. I do admire the fact that the film was made by a guy with a dream, and I am pleased that Kevin Smith is becoming a mainstream hollywood type. He certainly deserves it more than 90% of the Joel Schumackers of the world, and as a student film, my expectations would have been met, but after reading all the reviews here and elswhere, I was really shocked at how bad this film turned out.
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Summary: C'mon if you can't afford it, then don't complain!
Review: I dread the day I sit on my porch and complain boisterously about when I was a kid, and walking 20 miles to school, in the snow, uphill, both ways, with rocks in my school bag, and so forth. (Refer to Monty Python's "4 Irishmen" for further details) If you can't, don't, shouldn't, wouldn't shell out some extra cash for having the latest novelty sitting under your TV to use the latest technology trend, then DON'T buy it. If you can pick up the VHS version for two bucks at the pawn shop, then go buy it and stop posting your gripes and whines where everyone can read it and mock you and call you a silly sod! With that out of the way, this movie although not having any actors with talent, that couldn't act their way out of a paper bag, is funny. I wouldn't really call it potty humor, just a little bit twisted. Certainly makes you think twice about anyone behind any counter beaming a smile at you when you complain about how you think the establishment should consider having a selection of your favorite gum. The extras aren't exceptional but welcomed nontheless. Funny... funny, funny. My 2 cents.
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Summary: Clerks, too funny for words
Review: Clerks is one of the most original and funny movies I have ever seen. Basicly just a day in the life of 2 clerks. Maybe it is so funny because there is so much truth in it. You just have to watch it to appreciate it. I mean come on, the 2 guys crash a wake. Pay attention to the background music as well, the Chewbacca song is great. It is a bit costly to buy it on DVD , but it was worth every cent I spent on it.
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Summary: Great Fun!
Review: Crude. Rude. Irreverent. Crass. Smith might be on a one way trip to hell. Good Job! Kevin Smith's CLERKS is a great comedy. It has some rough language, but really tells a great story in the day in the life of two clerks from New Jersey: Dante Hicks and Randall. Dante is torn between two girls. One is Veronica, the woman he loves. The other is Caytlin; the girl he dated years ago who cheated on him on many occasions. Being torn apart by these two, plus having to work the whole day on his day off, plus not being able to play is scheduled hocky game, and plus having to baby-sit Randle, the videostore clerk next door who hates his job and customers and arrives a half hour late. You can tell a lot about Randle in his opening scene when he sees Dante working at the c-store: "If I had known you were working I'd have come in even later." His character seems to represent what all of us Clerks wish we could be like, i.e. uncarring, unconcerned, and as mouthy as we want to be, whereas Dante is what most Clerks really are; calm, collected, smart, concerned about his job, and althogh full of hate for the customer, cares enough to satisfy them. Kevin Smith is a master at back-and-forth dialogue, makes me think he might have studied a lot of the old screwball comedies of the 30s and 40s, and his characters are inane and as endlessly funny as can be imagined, ESPECIALLY Jay and Silent Bob. This movie is a laugh riot.
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: This movie is great! I docked it a star simply due to the fact that the acting is some of the worst that I have seen, however that is understandable due to the lack of funding and time that Kevin Smith had to make this film. When one simply looks at the screenplay, I think this is his best film! One of the funniest that I have seen in a long time!
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Summary: Clerks is a hilarious movie
Review: This movie was great. It makes fun of those customers one wants to choke
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