IMDb top 250: -
Rating 3/10
Director: Kevin Smith
Writers: Kevin Smith
Starring: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Marilyn Ghigliotti & Kevin Smith
"I'm not even supposed to be here today!"
Dante Hicks (O'Halloran) is a retail clerk working in a convenience store, called in on his day off to cover for another employee who is sick. Dante turns up at the convenience store to find the shutters can't be opened as vandals have jammed gum into the locks and his day goes from bad to worse. Along the way he manages to get a $500 fine for selling cigarettes to kids, has angry smokers attack him with cigarettes and lose his girlfriend. Along the way he is visited regularly by his friend Randal Graves (Anderson), who works in the video store next door and is completely rude to every customer he serves and who manages to add more trouble in to the mix for Dante.
Having seen and enjoyed Mallrats, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Chasing Amy I was rather looking forward to seeing Clerks. I was so disappointed!! I found maybe a total of 5 minutes of this film funny. After viewing the film I read that it had been voted on many a "most overrated movies" list and I couldn't agree more. I just found this to be a really badly acted, poorly written movie about two complete douchebags that I just wanted to punch in the balls!
The "jokes" if you could call them that were so lazy and obvious and pretty much just revolved around dicks, hermaphrodite porn, necrophilia and farts. They weren't even clever or well filmed, they were just YAWN! I was even bored by Jay and Silent Bob who I actually think are hilarious in the previously mentioned films.
The acting was pretty awful from everyone, especially from Jeff Anderson. His mannerisms, his voice, his clothing...pretty much everything about him made me want to kick my TV in. I refuse to believe anyone in the world would be spoke to like a piece of dirt by someone like him and not kick his teeth in. Brian O'Halloran is another hideous creation! A whiny, wimpy, annoying tool that no woman would want to go near, let alone two. And Marilyn Ghigliotti just bugged the life out of me, her voice was like nails down a chalk-board. Perhaps she sucked 36 dicks because people just wanted to shut her up!
I'm sure this was voted into the top 500 because it was filmed on no budget but to me I just found it really boring. Perhaps if I was a stoner or retail clerk I would have found it more amusing.
Wouldn't watch again!
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