T.S. Quint is dumped by his girlfriend, Brandi, whereas Brodie is dumped by his girlfriend Rene. So T.S. and Brodie meet up at a mall with Jay and Silent Bob to forget about their troubles, which also includes waiting in line to see Marvel comic-book icon Stan Lee. Brodie is annoyed that Rene hooked up with womanizer Shannon Hamilton. Brandi's father Svenning stages a TV show at the mall, "Truth or Date", to try to sell it to potential sponsors, and Brandi is sent to be in it. T.S. and Brodie join the show. T.S. and Brandi make up; Silent Bob plays a sex tape involving Hamilton and an underage girl, which gets him arrested, and Svenning, too. Brodie and Rene make up, as well.
After entering the movie scene in big style with "Clerks", director and screenwriter continued it a step back with this chaotic shopping mall comedy, "Mallrats", which is, at least in the extended edition, forced and unworthy. Puzzlingly, Smith included vulgar, vile or tasteless jokes in order to appeal to the wide audience, but they just set up the movie to fail in advance: the fortune teller with three nipples, for instance, or the disasterous gag in which Brodie, as a revenge, sticks his hand in his butt, and then shakes his stinking hand with Svenning, touching it, mentioning his ring, and giving him chocolate, which Svenning eats with gusto, and licks his now dirty fingers. Why have this scene in the first place? It wrecks the movie, and lingers negatively, overshadowing the good parts. Some good lines live it up here and there. For instance, Rene tells her ex-boyfriend Brodie how she thinks about doctors who make advancements in curing diseases; engineers who design skyscrapers; navigators who map a plane's fly path... "people who lead big lives", adding at the end: "I think about all that and I cry, because I've got nothing better to do than f*** you". In another great verbal moment, T.S. and Brodie contemplate if "Louis' fallopian tubes can handle Superman's sperm", and how only "Wonder Woman's uterus is strong enough to carry his kid". Sadly, the movie needed more of such high level examples of humor, and less those low ones. The good, intellectual jokes are worth more than ten scenes of dumb jokes here, which are never as funny to truly justify going so low.
Grade:+
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