22 July 2006
Clerks II
Directed by Kevin Smith
Starring Brain O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, and Rosario Dawson
It looks like crap, there’s no semblance of style and it’s guaranteed to offend.
It’s fantastic.
I didn’t want to get excited over this flick, and went out of my way to not have it spoiled by terrible TV commercials. Turns out my head was in just the right spot to enjoy Kevin Smith’s first (and only) sequel.
Dialogue was great, characters were unforgivably crude yet endearing, and bottom line, it’s the funniest film I’ve seen all year, and perhaps the most strictly enjoyable summer movie (and the only one to actually exceed expectations).
From Imdb News:
Director Kevin Smith said Saturday that he had been prepared to fight the MPAA’s ratings board if Clerks II had received an NC-17 rating. “I was getting ready to have the jihad of all jihads with the MPAA,” he told the Comic-Con meeting in San Diego. “They had done it to us on [the original] Clerks,” he noted, “They gave us an NC-17. We had to fight to get it turned over to an R, so I was kinda thinking we’d be facing them down this time, but oddly enough, no. We put it in front of them and they were like, ‘Here you go, it’s an R, ‘ and they didn’t ask for a single cut. And I was elated, it felt great, because I didn’t have to work on the flick anymore. But at the same time, five minutes later, I was like, ‘What’s fucking wrong with you people? There is a dude fucking a donkey in this movie! It doesn’t get any more NC-17 than this!’”
