My husband and I are fans of Kevin Smith's films, especially Clerks. We went to see Clerks 2 at a matinée at noon, the first day it opened,and we loved it. We went to the first possible showing of it, and we are people who rarely if ever go out to the theatre; we usually wait to rent/buy films. We were the only two people there (beautiful day out, and the first matinée of the day, we were hoping it wouldn't be crowded). It's a good thing we were the only ones because we were laughing so loudly we would have most likely bothered anyone sitting near us.
Clerks has a better soundtrack, but we thought that Clerks 2 was twice as funny. If you don't like profanity in movies you won't care for it, if you can't stand the word "f***" you won't make it through the first five minutes of the film, but then again that goes for seeing the first one too.
And yes, if you didn't see Clerks, you do need to watch it before Clerks 2; if you saw Clerks and didn't like it, I doubt you'll like Clerks 2 either.
Most of the raunchiness is in the dialogue during and about events that you know are occurring, but are not actually shown, and that includes discussion at length about a certain *ahem* distasteful sexual act.
And a scene involving a donkey. LOL The cast has all the lead actors from Clerks, and adds a couple of great new characters to the mix, including the versatile and sexy Rosario Dawson (Sin City) as Becky, the manager of Mooby's, the fast-food joint and main hub of activity in the film. And relative newcomer Trevor Fehrman is great as Elias; his facial expressions and comic timing were really fun to watch.
Jason Lee, most recently known as the lead on the hilarious TV show My Name is Earl, has a very effective small part/scene in the film, and other actors such as Ben Affleck and Wanda Sykes have meaty little cameos.
There are also some great snarky winks to other films such as Silence of the Lambs, and Jay (Jason Mewes) remains my favorite character.
Clerks has a better soundtrack, but we thought that Clerks 2 was twice as funny. If you don't like profanity in movies you won't care for it, if you can't stand the word "f***" you won't make it through the first five minutes of the film, but then again that goes for seeing the first one too.
And yes, if you didn't see Clerks, you do need to watch it before Clerks 2; if you saw Clerks and didn't like it, I doubt you'll like Clerks 2 either.
Most of the raunchiness is in the dialogue during and about events that you know are occurring, but are not actually shown, and that includes discussion at length about a certain *ahem* distasteful sexual act.
And a scene involving a donkey. LOL The cast has all the lead actors from Clerks, and adds a couple of great new characters to the mix, including the versatile and sexy Rosario Dawson (Sin City) as Becky, the manager of Mooby's, the fast-food joint and main hub of activity in the film. And relative newcomer Trevor Fehrman is great as Elias; his facial expressions and comic timing were really fun to watch.
Jason Lee, most recently known as the lead on the hilarious TV show My Name is Earl, has a very effective small part/scene in the film, and other actors such as Ben Affleck and Wanda Sykes have meaty little cameos.
There are also some great snarky winks to other films such as Silence of the Lambs, and Jay (Jason Mewes) remains my favorite character.