The Audience : Myself and my brother-in-law Leigh - who is a world leading authority of Star Wars ( no joke, he used to help RUN the conventions ... til he met and married my sister that is, ha ha ) and also a guy who in his youth watched more movies than you, I or anyone else you have ever met had hot dinners.
The Time : Friday 22nd at 6.40pm
The Price : £9.50 each ( wow that's a lot for a film these days ! )
The Cast : I'm guessing the same as in Clerks ( this being the follow-up to the original "Clerks" from 1994 ), but not having seen the original, all I instantly recognised was Jay and Silent Bob.
The Genre : Alternative Sit-Rom-Com with smut and homage to films galore.
The Plot : Two store clerks private take on life, the universe, sex and marriage whilst going through a few mini mid life crisis's.
The Verdict : This film will never be a classic, never be the top of any one's best ever films, never achieve the same level of cult status that "The Blues Brothers", "Friday" or "Dogma" did, but is never-the-less a film I enjoyed watching throughout, even if it does just heavily take the mick out of certain classic stereotypes.
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Being a newly converted Radio 7 listener, I was able to catch a program where a bunch of well known and respected comedians were reviewing both this and the "US" vs "UK" style of comedy films.
Their main gripe about UK comedy is that we rely too heavily on one liners and trying to somehow get a big audience by saying its a "Great British Comedy", which more often than not means that it just isn't going to be any good.
Their mixed praise for US comedy was that they are much better at building characters and situations that you both can identify and empathise with, not just cardboard cut out actors with scripts.
Clerks 2 is a great example of this, as time and again it sacrifices a quick half hearted one liner to build up a much better fully rounded joke later on.
It's this fact that also makes the whole film more re-watchable as it is not just a "once-you-know-the-joke-its-not-funny-anymore" kind of flick, but a "did-they-really-do-that-and-why-didn't-anyone-twig-before" movie.
For me the two best bits were them paying homage to Silence of the Lambs and also the entire "Porch Monkeys is not racist" joke, especially as it is both true but ultimately flawed at the same time.
All I would say is that anyone of a nervous disposition, disliking of sexual references and images or a fanatical lover of Lord of the Rings that DOES NOT possess a sense of humour, then you should really not watch this film.
1 comment:
Radio 7 is so damn superfinechunkygood. I am glad to see it has another fan.
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