Clerks - Collector's Edition

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Summary: A day in the life of a clerk...
Review: You wake up and become part of the daily grind again. You take your place at the convenience store where anything can happen and tends to. A microcosm of life as it is.

That is what Clerks is. When Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) has to come in to watch the store on his day off, he knows his life is on a bad track. However, in the span of a work day Dante and the other eclectic patrons, friends, ex's, groupies, and fellow clerks experience almost all of the ups and downs that life has to offer.

Kevin Smith successfully placed the everyday convenient store in the social conscious with this film as a place of all kinds of emotions. He accomplishes this with ruggedness, which is equally opposed by wit. You feel for the characters, and you'll laugh at the humor, but mainly it is a simple story of life boiled down to a clerk's job.

A highly enjoyable film, Clerks is filled with creativity (shot all in black and white) and just entertainment that most people will love. Definitely worth a view.

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Summary: "Oh, you think your too cool to hang out with drug dealers!"
Review: Clerks is awesome. I was laghing almost the whole time. They should have had more of Jay and Silent Bob. They were still way better in this than in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Although that was HILARIOUS, too. The movie reminded me of Seinfeld, in the since that it was about pretty much nothing. It was just people standing around talking. But it was hilarious. The ultimate slacker's movie. ONly if your not offended easyily.

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Summary: Kevin Smith's finest moment
Review: For me "Clerks" has always been the essential Kevin Smith movie. I mean it started it all. "Clerks" was the first Kevin Smith movie I ever saw, and I guess it still holds a special place in my heart. The script is by the funniest thing Smith has written, we meet our heros Jay and Silent Bob for the first time, Dante and Randal are hilarious, and the situations the characters are put in are just out and out funny. Only Smith's experience working at a Quick Stop in New Jersey could have helped him write such a funny movie (which if you read the booklet with the DVD Smith says himself.)

The tenth anniversary addition is well worth owning, even if you already have the movie. The bonuses are a great buy for the price. Disc one is of course the full theatrical version of "Clerks", Disc two is the first cut of the movie which is fun to watch if you've already seen it to see what's left out or changed, and disc three is all about the story of "Clerks". If you don't already own the movie, you now have even more motavation to buy the anniversary addition. For those who haven't seen the movie, "Clerks" is a story about a guy named Dante. Dante works at a convience store called, oddly enough, Quick Stop. The movie follows his odd encounters of working behind the counter dealing with troublesome customers and annoying bosses. His buddy Randal works at the video store next door to the Quick Stop (both owned by the same owner) and frequently comes in to stir some things up. The ideas and situations in the movie are just so funny, and so true to life, that everyone can appreciate what Dante is going through. The hilariously funny dou of Jay and Silent Bob only add to the laughs even more.

I strongly encourage you to buy this DVD. Even if you already own it, the bonuses are just too good to pass up. And with a price tag of around $20 (considering that you buy it from somewhere like Wal-mart or Target) is well worth the price of admission. If you love Kevin Smith movies, or Jay and Silent Bob, and somehow all the years you've just managed to elude "Clerks", then what are you doing still reading this? You should be out buying this right now. Hilarious is the only word I can use to describe this movie. You should definitely own it.

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Summary: "The Ultimate Edition of a Comedy Classic"
Review: This has to be one of my favorite DVDs. Kevin Smith has packed this 3-disc 10th Anniversary Edition with so many extras that I have still yet to watch them all. The commentaries alone (one that was done soon after the movie came out and the additional one with the performers revisiting the film 10 years later) are worth the purchase price of this set, as they are hilarious as well as very informative. There is another very lengthy,thorough and in-depth documentary about the making of the film and how they got Mirimax to purchase the rights to the movie that I found to be extremely interesting. This is a must for any fan of Kevin Smith and/or "Clerks". Highly recommended!