| | | |Loaded with Over 6 Hours of Bonus Features!
Features: DVD, Widescreen
Writer-director Kevin Smith returns to the scene of his cult comedy classic Clerks to pick up his nothing-is-sacred style of humor...and push it right over the edge!Ten years after the original, slacker heroes Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) have become "funployees" at Mooby's fast food. In addition to offending customers and debating anything and everything, their responsibilities now include ragging on their uber-nerd co-worker (Trevor Fehrman) and teasing their sexy manager (Rosario Dawson). But when Dante announces his plan to leave New Jersey, Randal plots a shocking and hysterical going-away party that will alter their lives forever. Featuring cameos by Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, Wanda Sykes, and the triumphant return of Jay and Silent Bob.
"...a lewd, lascivious, exhilaratingly life-affirming celebration of misfits and the misfits who love them." Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
"Hilarious and outrageous!" Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times
"Kevin Smith's most enjoyable film since, well, Clerks..." Dorian Lynskey, Empire
"...impressive feat of mixing jaw-droppingly gross jokes with characters that are worth caring about." Marc Mohan, Portland Oregonian
"...Smith finally achieves that perfect balance between humor and heart..." Mark Bell, Film Threat
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS JULY 21, 2006 Returning to the subject matter that made his name, Kevin Smith's CLERKS II finds Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson) and Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) stuck in New Jersey and seeking work after the closing of the Quick Stop.
| Features | 10 Train Wrecks: Video Production Diaries (With Intro) | | Back To The Well: Clerks II - A 90 Minute Documentary (With Intro) | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Deleted Scenes Prepared By Kevin Smith (With Intro) | | Feature Audio Commentary With Director Kevin Smith, Producer Scott Mosier, & Actors Jeff Anderson, Trevor Fehrman, Jason Mewes, Brian O'Halloran, & Jennifer Schwalbach | | Feature Audio Commentary With Director Kevin Smith, Producer Scott Mosier, & Director Of Photography David Klein | | Featurette: A Closer Look At Interspecies Erotica | | Hilarious Bloopers | | Interactive Menus | | Podcast Commentary With Director Kevin Smith, Producer Scott Mosier, & Actor Jeff Anderson | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: Spanish |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Clerks II By: Joel Meares - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 11/22/2006 8:52 PM | | Kevin Smith is a deceptively good filmmaker. Often criticized for a filmic paralysis that has seen his style advance very little from the amateurish and unpolished production of the original Clerks, he has maintained a very plain and unaffected style of storytelling that serves him and us very well. In Clerks II, the plainness of his production lends the film an effortlessness and reality that compounds the humor of Smith's script and underscores the banality of the world he captures....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: WEINSTEIN COMPANY |
| Release Date: 1/27/2009 |
| Running Time: 97 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 79598 | | UPC: 00796019795982 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"[A]n agreeable mischievous romp....[With] great gushing geysers of talk, much of it prickly and obscene and hilarious and, in that Kevin Smith way, so smart about being stupid that the characters' verbosity becomes, in every sense, their saving grace." 07/28/2006 p.44New York Times
"[W]hat makes CLERKS II both winning and moving is its fidelity to the original CLERKS ethic of hanging out, talking trash and refusing all worldly ambition." 07/21/2006 p.E8 Total Film
5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t is funny. Hilariously, hernia-inducingly funny....It's also surprisingly touching..." 10/01/2006 p.39 Uncut
4 stars out of 4 -- "Smith's directing style remains basic, but he has an unusual flair for balancing slushy all-American sentiments with relentless jokes..." 10/01/2006 p.153 Sight and Sound
"Rosario Dawson brings plenty of charm to her role..." 07/01/2007 p.85 ReelViews 8 of 10
It's interesting to note that, as Kevin Smith has changed and matured as a filmmaker, he has elected to close the circle and look back from a perspective of a dozen years at the movie that put him on the indie map, Clerks. Clerks II is a direct sequel to that movie, albeit one that transpires a decade later - the first such movie Smith has done (although many of his films have featured cameos by characters from other pictures). It feels both the same as and different from its predecessor: the same, in that the script is constructed around a truckload of nearly X-rated gags, and different, in that Smith is peddling a message...Clerks II has its share of serious scenes and, while not all work on an individual level, the aggregate is effective in making the movie more than a pointless exercise in scatological jokes and bestiality gags. - James Berardinelli
Variety 7 of 10
It's Dante and Randal who strike back in "Clerks II," a softer, flabbier and considerably higher-budgeted follow-up to Kevin Smith's 1994 indie sensation that nevertheless packs enough riotous exchanges and pungent sexual obscenities to make its 97 minutes pass by with ease. Politically incorrect raspberries and the umpteenth appearance of Jay and Silent Bob aside, a gentle feeling of nostalgia pervades this hit-or-miss sequel, which relocates the gang to the ninth circle of fast-food restaurant hell...In addition to all the gags, quips and extended rants about subjects like masturbation, anal-oral contact, bestiality, sex with pickles, and the difference between Anne Frank and Helen Keller, Smith is at his best as a self-implicating satirist of geek culture. - Justin Chang
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