Clerks II

Clerks II is all right. Not the best thing Smith's done, but pretty funny. It's nice to see the old guys again, even though the presence of Rosario Dawson as an actual actor throws their badness into stark relief, plus brief appearances by Jason Lee and Ben Affleck add to the nostalgia. The movie runs on the fumes of past enjoyment a bit too much though, content to continually remind viewers of stuff that already happened before. There are a few new characters, although they're mostly used as the butt of Randal's jokes. I just had to look up what his character's name was. You decide if that means anything.

So um, yeah. Smith uses his characters as a mouthpiece for his opinions (Randal's rant about The Lord of the Rings having a boring plot and homosexual undertones was pretty hilarious while watching a movie where two guys talk about nothing for an hour before confessing their undying man-love for each other), has some WACKY sexual hijinks happen, Jay and Silent Bob do the Jay and Silent Bob thing, everyone learns a valuable lesson in the end, and it's all probably what you expect it to be. Not bad, but nothing new for him. Should I see his last movie about porn? I don't know. I probably will in the next few years.