New Jersey. Dante finds out his store caught fire and burned out. He finds a new job in a fast food restaurant. It is his last day there, since he plans to marry Emma and move to Florida. Things get complicated when his boss Becky reveals she is pregnant with him, whereas his friend Randal throws a farewell party inside, featuring a man having sex with a donkey. They are all arrested, but released soon. Dante proposes Becky and rebuilds his old store to work with Randal as friends again.
12 years after his indie debut film “Clerks”, director and screenwriter Kevin Smith returned to his roots with this disappointing sequel that seems as if it was directed by an imposter imitating Smith. While the first film had no story, but its running time was filled out with consistently good jokes and dialogues, “Clerks II” is a movie whose running time is filled out with bad, lame jokes and dialogues, demonstrating for the first time that Smith has lost his touch, and instead settled for a populist comedy aimed at vulgar teens. The first truly great dialogue worthy of the level of the original is the sequence where Randal confronts two “LOTR” fans by summing up the entire “Lord of the Rings” film trilogy as this: first film, Randal walks across the floor. Second film, Randal walks across the floor. Third film, Randal walks across the floor, stops, and pretends to throw something from his hand. Truly delicious, but it happens only 25 minutes into the film, which is long for a first good gag. The next good one also happens only 25 minutes later, failing to cover up the lack of inspiration. One bad sequence wrecks the film: in the finale, for Dante’s farewell party, Randal accidentally hires a man who, it is implied, gives a blow job to a donkey, and later takes his underwear down to have intercourse with the animal. A disaster of poor taste. That the authors would resort to bestiality to try to keep the viewers’ attention is sad. “Clerks II” have more obscenity and vulgarity, to try to appeal to the wide audience, but its problem is that it’s simply not that funny. It is way too forced. The only good part is the surprisingly sweet relationship between Dante and Becky, yet everything else in not worth writing about. Despite a bigger budget, these "Clerks" have far less spirit.
Grade:+
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