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Clerks II
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation / The Weinstein Company


7.3

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MPAA RATING: R for pervasive sexual and crude content including abberant sexuality, strong language and some drug material

Starring Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Trevor Fehrman, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Jason Lee, and Ben Affleck

This long-awaited sequel to Kevin Smith's breakthrough comedy revisits the New Jersey world of Dante and Randal.

GENRE(S):	Comedy \| Drama
WRITTEN BY:	Kevin Smith
DIRECTED BY:	Kevin Smith
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: November 28, 2006 Theatrical: July 21, 2006
RUNNING TIME:	98 minutes, B/W / Color
ORIGIN:	USA

Also known as "Clerks 2"

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

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Film Threat Mark Bell

Ultimately, Smith finally achieves that perfect balance between humor and heart that he's been dancing towards with all his films.

Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan

It mostly manages the impressive feat of mixing jaw-droppingly gross jokes with characters that are worth caring about.

Empire Dorian Lynskey

Kevin Smith's most enjoyable film since, well, Clerks lacks much of its predecessor's outsider edge, but you'll probably be laughing too hard to care.

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

Clerks II finds Smith up to the profane, raunchy, profoundly humanist mischief of which he alone is the master. This is a lewd, lascivious, exhilaratingly life-affirming celebration of misfits and the misfits who love them.

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Clerks II will find Kevin Smith's detractors saying that the filmmaker simply regurgitates the past, while his loyal fan base will applaud his return to the tried and true.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

This is a funny movie. It delivers plenty of laughs, but it isn't in the same league as "Clerks." I left that movie holding my stomach from laughing so hard.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

An agreeable mischievous romp.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

Dawson turns out to be a necessary ingredient, propelling the emotional core of the film forward, while somehow convincing the audience that a smart, attractive woman could find a schlub like Dante desirable.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Yes, the characters in Clerks II hardly qualify as role models, but they can be blisteringly funny in an in-your-face, to-heck-with-taste way.

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

Despite the film's sloppy structure, it feels weirdly good to hang out with these losers again.

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

It has enough laughs, character arcs, politically incorrect rants and a satisfying emotional ending to more than justify this whim on Smith's part.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

Clerks II has its problems: It rambles into sentimentality, and it doesn't need to -- the movie is more affecting when the characters are just cracking jokes. But Smith, an inherent optimist, has made a movie full of crude humor that also manages to explore the enduring qualities of friendship.

Variety Justin Chang

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.

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

This is the umpteenth movie I’ve seen this year about guys in their 30s who aren't quite sure what they want to do with their lives, and it's the only one that strikes a real chord, because it's neither an exaltation nor a condemnation of slackerdom, but rather just a sweet little fable about how sometimes the life that you think could be so much better is actually pretty damn good already.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

What makes Clerks II both winning and (somewhat unexpectedly) moving is its fidelity to the original "Clerks" ethic of hanging out, talking trash and refusing all worldly ambition.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

By this point, the rhythms of Smith's dialogue are as predictable and mannered as haikus, and like sitcoms, Clerks II is mostly appealing in its familiarity, from the rat-a-tat cussing to the cameos from Smith's repertory company to the extended riffing on "Star Wars" and geek culture.

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

More sentimental and ruder than its predecessor, though its brand of raunch tends to curdle halfway out of the characters' mouths.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

If not precisely poetic in its elaborate offensiveness, it's certainly imaginative. Unfortunately, that's not the same as interesting or engaging, unless you're a dyed-in-the-wool fan.

New York Post Kyle Smith

Kevin Smith's Clerks II doesn't take much notice of anything that's happened since the 1994 original. It's occasionally clever and gets a few points for originality.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Some of the banter is fun, like Randal's debate with Elias over the relative merits of "Star Wars" vs. "The Lord of the Rings." But most is just trash-talk as shoptalk.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Best of all, Jason Mewes is out of rehab to play Jay and spar with Smith as Silent Bob, his dope-dealing partner.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

With Clerks II, the director retreats to home turf, but is Smith playing it safe or is he really interested in seeing how the old nabe has changed? Bit of both, actually.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

The attitude is older, maybe a tad sentimental, and as adolescent and reckless as ever. Whether that's a good thing depends on your appreciation for dead-end conversations, geek debates and the Smithspeak sandbox of creative vulgarity.

USA Today Scott Bowles

It's the crude humor that trips up the movie.

Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall

In place of the sharply etched observational humor of the original, which featured a host of no-name actors in memorably quirky performances, we now get mostly raunch and some flaccid cameos from Smith cronies Ben Affleck and Jason Lee.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

Feels a little like the new "Pirates of the Caribbean" -- a similar wet fizzle of a sequel for sequel's sake -- but what do we know?

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

While these individually diverting factors add up to a good time, they don't add up to a good movie.

Premiere Melissa Farrar

Part of the Clerks charm was that Kevin Smith made it for $27,000, and a bigger budget doesn't really help this kind of tale's authenticity.

Village Voice Robert Wilonsky

Clerks II can't bear the strain of its amateur-hour theatrics, no matter how big its heart or how many crocodile tears it manages to squirt. The dramatic moments become melodramatic; the bawdy moments turn icky. The fans will eat it up.

The average user rating for this movie is 7.3 (out of 10) based on 97 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Mike V. gave it a4:
This movie would have been mildly funny if it weren't for the absolutely awful acting on the part of Dante and Randal. Perhaps the only reason I didn't notice how bad they both are in the first Clerks is because it was black and white and therefore more difficult to discern their expressions.

[Anonymous] gave it a0:
There is nothing that I liked about this movie. The jokes were childish, trite, and non-stop, all while attempting to throw some melodramatic "moral to the story" in-between. Go huff some paint, I promise it will be more fulfilling.

William M. gave it a10:
Better than the orginal,no doubt about it.

Jake J. gave it a2:
Boring. Trite. Jokes were forced. Clerks is a classic. Clerks 2 is a waste of time.

Allistair P. gave it a5:
This is closer to being Waiting 2 than it is Clerks 2. People who've liked the 90s Smith movies will find very little to like here, and if you're the type that gets easily annoyed at seeing beloved characters/franchises ruin you better stay away. Smith just totally lost touch of all that he had going for him with this movie and I'll be surprised if the man ever gets it back.

Squid daOne gave it a9:
"Clerks II" is hilarious. Jay & Silent Bob were too hysterical, and the "Porch Monky" scene, had me in tears. This is one of those movies that you watch when your in a bad mood, because it's a feel good movie. Definitly the third funniest movie of 2006, right up there with "Jackass 2" & "Borat.

[Anonymous] gave it a7:
A good, albeit short movie. You'll laugh a good amount. Althought not totally awesome, it still offers enough to entertain. Not a bad rent.

Clerks II Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation / The Weinstein Company

Clerks II
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation / The Weinstein Company