Clerks II (HD DVD, 2008, 2-Disc Edition)

FU ebay, as you can see i have been a good customer getting good reviews for about five years now with ebay, this purchase has changed my thoughts on ebay and will never do business with you again! As you can see the title says Clerks II HD DVD, right?! I received Clerks II in regular DVD, their is a huge difference between regular DVD's and HD DVD's!! I filed a complaint and you sided with the seller?! How the do you side with the seller?! It's FALSE advertising!!!! You have lost my business and as through time you'll loose more, I have started an anti-ebay post through which people from ebay can vent their frustration, looks like I win after all!

I was overall satisfied however, they sent me the wrong item. Instead of shipping the HD version I received the regular DVD. Their return process for the wrong item being shipped is so lengthy I chose to keep the incorrect disc even though there is a price difference between the two items and I ended up over paying.

This movie begins where the first Clerks ended… approximately ten years later. Apparently nothing has changed in the lives of Dante and Randal, except for the quality of the movie which begins in black and white (as the first movie was filmed in) and miraculously becomes high definition color in a glorious blaze of the convenience store! A blaze which forces the characters to work in the fast food industry at a Mooby’s (…only in the View Askewniverse).

This movie is as good as the first and easily stands on it’s own as a classic. The dialogue is hysterical, especially the argument about which trilogy is better, Lord of the Rings or Star Wars. Jay is as funny as ever when he does a Silence of the Lambs ‘mirror dance’, and even produces a sobriety chip from rehab, which we can assume is the real deal.

After watching the special features, we can conclude that this is a desperately needed comedy from Kevin Smith after the Gigli-Jersey Girl-Bennifer Media debacle, which overshadowed Smith’s attempts at making big-budget flicks (a.k.a. Going Hollywood). This movie reminds us of why we love Kevin Smith, his ability to push the envelope with language and reveal to us comedy which has a ring of truth. This one is a must own for the rewatchability factor.

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funny. very funny. a worthy sucessor to the original clerks. the transformers and lord of the rings references were cool as was pillowpants. the donkey show was kind of disturbing, but that was the intended purpose.

This auction was very accurate in description. Fast shipping. I am extremely satisfied. I will buy from this seller again.

The sequel to the 1994 indi-cult hit comes a dozen years later as our anti-hero minimum wage earners have not progressed much from the first film. Right away you notice a giant difference with this film over the first one . . . . . . . money! Yes it’s in color but that’s the least of the changes. You now have multiple cameras, better editing, superstar cameos, and a much smoother script. It would be hard for this movie to not be better than the original. Everyone involved has had twelve more years of practice at their craft. Kevin Smith now has films like Chasing Amy and Dogma under his belt. Jason Lee and Ben Affleck are A-List celebrities. And Brian O’Halloran (Dante) and Jeff Anderson (Randal) no longer look and sound like they are performing a high school play. Then add in real professional actors like Rosario Dawson (Becky) and Trevor Fehrman, who was brilliant in the role of the awkward and sometimes-scary Elias, and you have yourself a professional moving picture film.

The story is a lot deeper in this one, don’t get me wrong it’s not a Tolstoy novel or anything, but it’s the Grand Canyon compared to the first movie. Dante is still looking for direction in his life and thinks he may have found it for the first time, but we also get to see how this all effects Randal and the dynamic of their very LP friendship. The realism of the duo holds up because let’s face it; a decade can go by in the snap of a finger. One day you look up, ten years have passed, and the only thing that’s changed in your life is your waistline.

The comedy did not suffer at all from the more involved storylines. I actually laughed out loud way more at Clerks II than the original. The Star Wars Vs Lord of the Rings scene is one of the best written I’ve ever seen in a comedy. The first Clerks made you laugh, but it was more of a snicker or an “Oh yeah that happened to me once,” kind of thing.

One aspect of Clerks II that cannot compare against the original is the ironic purity of Jay and Silent Bob. Although Jay made me laugh my ass off in the sequel, he’s just not authentic as that character anymore. It’s not his fault he got sober, but in Clerks, Jason Mewes (Jay) was not playing a character he was just the strung-out stoner that slept on Kevin Smith’s couch. Plus the really bad wigs that Smith and Mewes were wearing in Clerks II did not help the street cred of the now sober and wealthy Bluntman and Chronic. You see, sometimes sobriety ruins things.

Clerks II is actually a better movie than Clerks. I know most people would say, “Blaspheme,” to that comment but watching the movies side by side proved without a doubt that Clerks II is the superior film. However Clerks II has one major problem . . . . . . . it’s a sequel.

Clerks II will never be held as highly as the original because that’s exactly what it’s not . . . . .original. When Clerks came out it was the gritty, low budget, indi film that you had to hope no one rented at Blockbuster because there was only one or two copies. Clerks II is way to polished and professional looking to deem as “hip,” or “edgy.” But I’m not a subscriber of the “indi is always cooler,” mantra. Funny is funny and since we're talking about a comedy here I have to say Clerks II wins over it’s legendary predecessor.

Story: 7.5
Acting: 7.5
Writing: 7.0
Captivation: 7.0
Replay Value: 7.0

Total Score: 7.2

This movie was a blast! Very funny, slightly raunchy and yet it still comes together for a very touching ending. This looks even better on HD-DVD

This guy must have fell off the face of the earth after I ordered from. No dvd, no response whatsoever. Overall, really bad experience. Buy at your own risk