DVD Review: Clerks II

Clerks II @ IMDB

Blimey, it can't be that long since Clerks came out? Really? Blimey.

The story goes that Kevin Smith promised his real life friend Jason Mewes that if he stayed of drugs he oculd play Jay again in Clerks II.

So here we are, on DVD.

After the Quick Stop burns down, Dante and his eternal sidekick Randal are working at a fast food restaurant. It is Dante's last day before he moves to Florida with his fiancee. Nothing could go wrong, right?

Kevin Smith's films always seem like attempts to mix the lowest of the low brow with heart felt sentimentality. But in a good way, not the John Hughes sickly sweet kind of way. So we get racial slurs, bizzare sex practices, drug taking all before the half way point. And funny it is too. It's strange seeing these characters after so long but also comforting. It complements and expands on the original which makes it, in my book, a great sequal but one that can stand on it's own.

And a guy has sex with a donkey in it. How can you turn that down?

This being a Kevin Smith DVD, the disc is packed with extras. But surprisingly, they've made it to the European disc. Normally we get nothing. You get commentaries, deleted scenes, a full 90 documentary about the film, the works. Well worth it.

Have to give this film a big bag full of ninja stars. Don't know why, I guess because Randal can throw them whilst making sarcastic comments.