Mallrats

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Summary: Review on all 7 films of the Jersey saga, Not just Mallrats.
Review: One of the best Kevin Smith films. I will review them all on this one review.

Clerks - 5/5, The first film based on the Jersey peeps, One of the best too, Look what smoking does to you, You can have that picture, haha that part is classic! Arguably the best Kevin Smith film...

MallRats - 5/5 The almost equally good sequal to Clerks, focusing on the consumer, not the workers, I heard you were a big fan of chocolate covered pretzels, Another classic scene...

Chasing Amy - 3/5 OK, I thought Smiths ilms weres supposed to be hilarious, Not as much Jay, Bob, Brodie, T.S., Dante, Randal, I dont get it... One of the worst in the series...

Dogma - 3/5 You start to think Smith is falling off, First Chasing Amy, then this, Dont get me wrong, they are both OK films, but after the great Clerks, and MallRats, You would think he was losing it until...

Clerks : The Animated Series - 5/5 HAHA, I don't care if its animated or clean, This is awsome, about time we get to have more adventures with Dante & Randall, Smith strts getting his comedy back!!...

Jay & Silent Bob Strike back - 5/5, Yeah he got it back, This is funny, Lots of good adventures with the best charactars... (possibly) ever!!!...

Jersey Girl - 4/5, Yeah Im mad, Jay & Bob arent hear, or any of the other great charactars, funny, but bring the vulgar, funny charactars we like back!!!

Great films, Start with Clekrs & Mallrats, then Jay & Bob S.B., & The animated Clerks DVD, then get Dogma, Jersey Girl, & Chasing Amy.



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Summary: My second favorite Keven Smith movie.
Review: This movie is great im going to buy it! I first saw this movie being talked about on vh1 so I rented it and I love it.

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Summary: This movie is classic and my fav. Kevin Smith
Review: I don't understand all the crap this movie took. It may be stupid but its by far the funniest Kevin SMith movie. This movie blows Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob strike back out of the water.
Jason Lee is hilarious throughout the whole movie. The mall rats theme is kind of lame but the movie is jsut soo funny. Anyway if u want some quick laughs pick up this movie.

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Summary: One of the best cult movies ever!
Review: Can you say "cult film"? Can you say "cult director"? Can you say "unexplained theatrical flop"? Can you say "hurrah"? Can you believe that Mallrats has finally been given the Collector's Edition release it so richly deserves?

Mallrats is regarded by some to be one of Kevin Smith's weaker films - me, I think it rocks (dude)! Basically, the film is a romantic comedy - with an edge. T.S. (Jeremy London, Party of Five) and Brodie (Jason Lee, Dogma and Vanilla Sky) are dumped by their respective girlfriends on the same day. They choose to commiserate with each other by hanging out at the local mall - not shopping, not browsing - just hangin'. There they bump into old chums (and omnipresent Smith characters) Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith). Other characters who flit in and out of their field of vision include Willam, who spends his entire day trying to determine exactly what is hidden in the "Magic Eye" 3-D picture, Stan Lee (himself) the comic book creator, Shannon (Ben Affleck) the smarmy menswear store manager and Mr Svenning (Michael Rooker) - who is at the mall to film a new television show called Truth or Date.

Of course Brodie's ex-girlfriend Rene (Shannen Doherty) and T.S.' former squeeze Brandi (Claire Forlani) also appear at the mall. Naturally, it doesn't take too long before the laconic guile of TS and Brodie combines with the dangerous enthusiasm of Jay and Silent Bob with a collective force equivalent to the Big Bang - and a cunning plot to win back the girls is hatched! The remainder of the film charts the emotional (and sometimes physical) collision of these and many other quirky Smith-penned characters, providing a funny, warm and idiosyncratic story as he tries to show us that love (plus luck and dope) can conquer all.

Mallrats is a cult film for a reason. Kevin Smith manages to provide mundane characters with just enough of a twist to make their every word (or silence, in the case of Bob) a pearl. When strung together, these somehow manage to fashion a beautiful necklace of a story. This may not be Smith's meisterwerk, but it is a damned good film, finally given a Collector's Edition DVD release which does it justice. Fans may not be able to resist buying this. Highly recommended for Smith fans, and for lovers of quirky, cool, funny - and fun - films.


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Summary: This movie was pretty good.
Review: I saw it a couple years ago but I still remember some of it and I love the jokes, it's just I thought it was really stupid (well that's what it's supposed to be but still) that Silent Bob had one of those batman thingys to go up to the building. Other than that the movie was priceless. A must own DVD. I would recomend this to people who love good comedy.

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Summary: Mallrats
Review: Mallrats is simply a day in the life for two Jersey boys, T.S. (Jeremy London) and Brodie (Jason Lee) as they putz around all day in a suburban mall while the girls who recently dumped them scamper about. The two guys encounter strange fellows like Jay (Jason Mewes), Silent Bob (director Kevin Smith), 15-year old sex author Trish the Dish (Renee Humphrey), 3-D visionally challenged Willam (Ethan Suplee) and many others. The point of the whole day of course is to win back the hearts of their ex-girlfriends (Claire Forlani & Shannon Doherty) before scumbags like Shannon Hamilton (Ben Affleck) get to have sex with them in very uncomfortable places.

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Summary: Great Film despite the reputation
Review: Most people who criticize this film did not really appreciate any of the other Kevin Smith films either. The idea that first sequels are no good is just a cliche and it's quite unfortunate people would use it as a legitimate critique of a film.
The dialogues are just as good as in Clerks and there are plenty of Jay and Silent Bob scenes.

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Summary: A fun movie that most people should enjoy.
Review: A lot of people don't like this movie. Kevin Smith fans, non-Kevin Smith fans. No matter what, this is the one movie of his (well, before Jersey Girl that is) that everyone could agree on not liking. But I never did get why people didn't like it. Were they expecting another Clerks? I sure wasn't. While Mallrats isn't as meaningful as Clerks, it has a lot more comedy and action going on for it. Sure it's not the funniest movie out there, but it's one of the better comedies to come out of the 90's. And on this dvd release, it has enough extras to hold up against Smith's other movies.

Mallrats starts out when the two lead characters, Brodie and TS, are dumped by their girlfriends. For TS, it's because his advice lead to the untimely death of a game show contestant that was going to be on his girlfriend's dad's dating show. Because of this incident, she has to take over on the show, which is right when TS was about to take her on vacation to Universal Studios (to propose on the Jaws ride when he pops out of the water). They argue, and end up calling it quits. Brodie, however, is pretty much ignoring his girlfriend for the most part. When they wake up one morning, he looks at her, then turns on his Sega console instead of having breakfast with her and his mom. So she leaves him a letter, mercilessly insulting him, and takes off. TS comes over and in order to get over it, they go to the mall. I don't even know where to start with what happens next. Brodie bumps into the manager from Fashionable Male, spilling coffee on him...and doesn't apologize. They encounter Willam, a guy who's determined to see the sailboat in a Magic Eye picture. Jay and Silent Bob appear, and help our heroes sabotage the dating game show (which just so happens to be in that mall). Stan Lee gives dating advice (OR DOES HE?) and super hero secrets. Silent Bob attempts to knock out the security guard with a sock full of quarters. A kid gets stuck in an escelator. The easter bunny is practically mugged. Brodie and TS seek the advice of a 3 nippled fortune teller, and much more goes on. Needless to say, you have to see it for yourself to really know what's going on. You can tell that a lot of fun went into the making of the movie. Just look at the name of the pet store- Gerbils Gerbils Gerbils. And this is probably second only to Clerks as far as my favorite Smith movies go. But there are a few mistakes here and there. One that sticks out the most is that you can see a hand throwing clothing during the scene where Silent Bob accidentally skates through the women's clothing store. They don't even mention this in the commentary, and here it's the most obvious goof.

The picture and audio quality are great, especially for a dvd made 4 years ago. There isn't very much grain or aliasing problems. Smith himself mentions how great everything looks. But the colors do seem to look a little faded here and there. This is probably because of the kind of film it was shot on. And there are a few times when the audio really kicks in and it'll catch you off guard. I liked the soundtrack too. It had that same alternative feel from Clerks to it, only a little more mainstream (ie- Weezer). But all of the tracks fit in perfectly, and you're better off reading reviews of the soundtrack here than from me. Besides, it has one of the funniest album covers I've seen.

As for the extras, this is loaded and has way more than that first release of Clerks did. You already know about the trailers and photo galleries, so there's no need to bother describing them. The commentary is pretty good, it has Smith and the main cast talking mostly about how bad the film did. Jason Mewes doesn't fall asleep this time, which is incredible. The majority of the commentary is by Smith and Ben Affleck who joke around with eachother. Smith also stresses on how overweight he was during the production of the movie, which is pretty clear when you look at him then and look at him now. It's not a very technical commentary, 'more just the guys having fun with everything. The deleted scenes...sweet jesus. They cut out A LOT from this movie. In fact, the opening scene was completely scrapped and went over 20 minutes. It explains a lot of why TS is hated by his girfriend's dad (he really, REALLY screwed up). This is a great scene and it's a shame they took it out. In fact, the opening scene alone could be the only deleted scene, and it'd be ok. But according to the commentary, the film was already over 2 and a half hours before they cut anything out, so it had to go. The other deleted scenes aren't anything too great and were cut for a reason. They didn't add anything and slowed it down. There are also a few easter eggs to be found (you can find them on your own, they're not too hard to figure out).

This dvd is now out of print, and I have no clue as to why. It was selling well, and had a good position on Amazon's top sellers chart. Maybe the studio just dropped it. Or maybe a better edition is coming out, like what they did with Clerks. Either way, it shouldn't be too hard to find. I always see this thing at various movie stores for under twenty bucks. And you could always try the View Askew website. They used to have this in a box set as part of the Jersey Trilogy. There isn't much to say about Mallrats. If you want a good comedy, this would be a good choice. Just don't expect it to be a masterpiece of humor or anything. It could've been better.

Edit: In case you didn't hear last month, a better version of the movie is coming out soon. It's going to get the same treatment as Clerks X did. What with the 10th anniversary for Mallrats being this year. Expect it to come out this summer.

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Summary: Middle Of The Jersey Trilogy Pleasently Entertaining
Review: After the success of Clerks, it was only a matter of time before a large studio offered Kevin Smith a big movie deal. That deal was with Universal and that movie was called Mallrats. It still follows the same formula that made Clerks so good and added quality and actors to help improve on it. In addition, Kevin Smith also learned how to appropriately cut down a film and increase pacing to keep the audience interested (which is proven by the popularity). The crude nature and language of this film for a realtively unknown moviemaker killed it at the box office. This movie is considered a bomb, which it was compared to the budget, and the difference between this and Clerks & Chasing Amy are that they weren't expected to be successful and this was.

It's that crucial moment in T.S. Quint's (Jeremy London) life, today is the day he and girlfriend Brandi Svenning (Claire Forlani) are going on a trip to Florida. Only this trip is no ordinary trip, this is the trip that T.S. plans to propose on (during the Universal Tour when Jaws pops out). Unfortunately, Brandi's father has a television show and yesterday T.S. told the female contestant that she'd look fatter on TV and as a result she died from an embolism in her brain while doing laps at the YMCA! As a result Brandi will be doing her father's show and their Florida trip is cancelled; and to make matters worse, T.S. and Brandi end up breaking up over it! Now, depressed and alone T.S. decides to console his best friend Brodie (Jason Lee) for advice and consolement. Ironically this was the morning that Brodie's girlfriend Rene (Shannon Doherty) has decided that she's had enough of his crap. Now these two friends have no better activity than to do what they always do, roam the local mall for no apparent reason to feel better. What results is a slew of interesting situations, makeups and breakups, and even a great story about sex in uncomfortable places (like the back of a Volkswagon)!

Kevin Smith has done it again! He's taken a script that on the surface not only seems meaningless, but also short and pointless, and turns it into an entertaining story that keeps your interest. His new regular actors Jason Lee and Ben Afflec help enhance the experience in this installment with Jason Lee being the scene stealer from the beginning. Shannon Doherty does an impressive job of playing off Smith's script as well. This also sparked the introduction of Joey Lauren Adams into Smith's films, who later leads the backbone to Smith's next movie Chasing Amy. The end result is an enhanced version of the situations in Clerks, complete with random situations involving Smith and Mewes as the dynamic duo Jay and Silent Bob. The dialogue is sharp, the actors much more upgraded, the look is clean and crisp, and the story flows quite smoothly. I have noticed that unlike Clerks, few people I've showed Mallrats to tuned out. This second istallment is definitely an improvement on Clerks and a great sleeper film that was appreciated by fans of this independent filmmaker.

The DVD is, like most Kevin Smith DVDs, impressively packed with Special Features. We get a slew of deleted scenes which not only add plenty of backstory to explain most of the questionable jokes from the final cut, but also prove that Kevin Smith has developed in his editing techniques. Universal should be extremely happy they released this DVD because it has to be the only way they can intend on making back the money they lost making it. If you're a fan Kevin Smith or if you love raunchy humor, this is a must own, otherwise you may want to consider renting first to see if it's your forte.