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Clerks II [HD DVD]
Actors: Ben Affleck, Ken Baldwin, Cheryl Baxter, Walter Flanagan, Ryan Thomas
Rated: R (Restricted)
Retail Price (not our price): $12.95
Release Date: 2007-01-16
Theatrical Release Date: 2006-07-21
Studio: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Run Time: 98 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Discs: 2

Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Product Description
Writer-director Kevin Smith returns to the scene of his cult comedy classic Clerks to pick up his nothing-is-sacred style of humor and push it right over the edge!Ten years after the original slacker heroes Dante (Brian O Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) have become funployees at Mooby s fast food. In addition to offending customers and debating anything and everything their responsibilities now include ragging on their uber-nerd co-worker (Trevor Fehrman) and teasing their sexy manager (Rosario Dawson). But when Dante announces his plan to leave New Jersey Randal plots a shocking and hysterical going-away party that will alter their lives forever. Featuring cameos by Ben Affleck Jason Lee Wanda Sykes and the triumphant return of Jay and Silent Bob Clerks II is hilarious and outrageous the laughs are non-stop! (Bill Zwecker Chicago Sun-Times)Format: DVD HD Genre: COMEDY UPC: 796019796606 Manufacturer No: 79660

2) Amazon.com
Lo and behold, Clerks II defies the odds as a sequel that even the most ardent Clerks fans can be happy about. Twelve years after Kevin Smith turned the independent film world upside-down with his $27,000 black-and-white comedy, perpetual slackers Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) return for another raucous romp in suburbia, but this time there's no beloved Quick Stop mini-mart to ensure their low-level employment. Now they're aimless 33-year-olds flippin' burgers at Mooby's, a fast-food joint with a cow theme that's "udderly delicious." Dante's engaged to his long-time girlfriend but has unexpectedly fallen in love with Mooby's manager Becky (and since she's played by Rosario Dawson, can you blame him?), and Randal's still holding out for life, liberty, and the pursuit of low ambition. The responsibilities of adulthood are rearing their ugly head, and with Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith) still dealing weed and generally being obnoxious, well... something's gotta give, right? The way Smith has written this long-awaited follow-up, the dilemmas of Dante, Randal, and their ongoing friendship are something that anyone can relate to, and with Dawson lighting up the screen (in a role demanded by producer Harvey Weinstein to boost box-office appeal), the movie's romantic chemistry is surprisingly delightful. Rest assured, also, that Smith (shooting mostly in color this time, on a $5 million budget) hasn't forgotten where he came from: Clerks II is jam-packed with the same lewd, crude humor that made Clerks an indie-film phenomenon, and Smith's good-natured sincerity is still on full display, ensuring that only the most prudish viewers could possibly be offended. For everyone else, this is as enjoyable as any sequel could ever hope to be, with amusing cameos by Smith-movie veterans Ben Affleck and Jason Lee, among others. --Jeff Shannon


Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5

1) HDDVD Died but this fill is still HD   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
While HD DVD has officaly bowed out of the fight, You can still pickup great HD DVD movies for your player. Clerks II has a plethora of great extras and the great High Definition picture enthusiasts have come to love. Clerks II serves as a great response to the original and the Cast was spectacular with many great cameos!

2) An okay sequel...it's funny, but does not match the brilliance of the original   [Rating: 3 out of 5]
Like so many sequels, this movie falls too easily into the unavoidable traps set for all sequels. The harder you try to follow a great film, the more obvious it is that you're trying too hard. The original Clerks was a brilliant movie because...it just was! There was no flash, no glitz, no "Hollywood". It was a great, raw, perceptive slice of America (or Jersey, anyway). And sure, there was humor that was not G rated, but it was done in a way that made you respect and care about these dysfunctional misfits. Clerks 2 was too much of an effort to "make a sequel" using the same characters, etc. Don't get me wrong. It is a funny movie, and a reasonably good movie. Standing on its own, it could almost rate 4 stars. But when stacked up against its five star predecessor, it falls way short...it's barely adequate. Still, it's better than some of Kevin Smith's work like "Mallrats" or "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back". Those movies are inane teenybopper shlonk-fluff films that are beneath Smith's talent. This movie does not fall into that class. This was a movie that tried to be in the same class as Clerks...it just tried a bit too hard. There are funny spots. There is some decent acting...O'Halloran and Anderson continued their characters well...Jay and Silent Bob stayed obscene and silent, respectively (and funny)...the geek Elias was good...the donkey gave a performance that deserves an Oscar. So, it's okay...funny...but it's just an average sequel.

3) What happened to Clerks?   [Rating: 3 out of 5]
This movie was barley funny and definitely not as good as the original. It's not even the same type of humor hat made Clerks so great. Don't bother, Kevin Smith has fallen off track. His worst movie to date, by far.

4) Pleasantly Surprised   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
My expectations were somewhat low because Clerks 2 was the lowest priced HD DVD on Amazon. I thought this is movie was so cheap because it sucked, but it was actually very funny.I think all the sexual humor and graphic language were hilarious. There's some great insight into Lord of the Rings and Randle's reenactment of the trilogy might be the best summary of the series ever performed. The story has some good insights about life and the characters are all pretty well developed. The acting is much better than the original Clerks (Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson aren't reading their lines off of a prop newspaper in this one).If you liked the first one, you'll like this one too.

5) A good Comedy   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Hi..Im not much into Comedy, usually i enjoy thrillers,dramas, action and some horror.But i gave Kevin smith's movies a try, started with the first Clerks (Collector's Series) movie and found it a bit funny, but not a super comedy or anything, just ok.then i tried Dogma and did not like it much..so i was not really excited to watch Clerks 2, however i gave it a try without high expectations, but i was surprised, this was a very well done comedy, very funny and waaaaay better than the first movie.In this one, we find Dante and Randal as clerks again, but this time in a fastfood resturant, again, a very simple plot, but the dialogue was very funny and engaging, the characters were also very funy in this one.Jay was funnier here than the first, and there were alot of over the limit scenes !!overall, a funny comedy that i enjoyed, i highly recommend itother comedies i enjoyed and would recommend : School for Scoundrels , Meet the Parents , Shallow Hal and most of Jim Carrey's 90s movies..


 
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