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I think it looks vastly entertaining. And Samuel L. Jackson is in it.

Maybe, I think I'm going wait to rent it.

Not every critic is full of s**t. And no, I don't use someone else's opinion when deciding what I want to see; I merely use what they write as a guide of what I could expect to see in the theaters. If I hear about a movie that sounds really interesting, I will still go see it to form my own opinion--even if the reviews I read are mediocre or worse (Saw, The Butterfly Effect, Bubba Ho-tep, X-Men 3). However, more times than not, I find myself agreeing with the negative reviews and regretting that I ever questioned a witness' testimony.



Critics can get a joke. Roger Ebert's reviews of early Abrahms, Zucker, & Zucker comedy films are all positive. More recently, Shaun of the Dead received so much well-deserved acclaim.

Perhaps they barred critics from the film because they don't see a "so bad it's good" film; they just see a shitty movie, and don't want negative reviews to threaten first week boxoffice earnings.

Probably not, but I've found that a majority of them can be quite full of themselves....which leads to a lot of questionable reviews. IMO. I think people put too much stock in the opinions of critics like Siegel, Ebert and Roeper........whoever else is out there.



Siegel recently "walked out screaming" at a screening of Clerks 2, he felt it was over the top, but in the same breath he hailed Clerks 1 as the most important film of our time.....WTF? You can imply sex with a dead guy, but if you imply sex with a donkey...THEN you're over the top? I wqonder how he'd feel about sex with a dead donkey...I just don't see how Clerks could could be so over the top of anything else that Smith has done.........

I could probably, easily, find reviews that I agree with the final verdict, but rarely do I ever agree with the "meat" of the review.




Quite possibly, but it's just as likely an attempt to stir up a little last minute buzz on the film before launching it...it could backfire and hurt the opening day ticket sales...but given the buzz already generated...probably not. Guess we'll see on Friday or Saturday.........

Recreating Clerks 1 was not Smith's goal with the sequel. The goal was to fulfill a promise to Jason Mewes for making it through rehab and staying clean, and in the process revisit what DAnte and Randal were up to ten years later...something fans have been screaming for since Mallrats.



5 million is hardly big budget in Hollywood....yeah, Smith didn't have to max out any credit cards to pay for it, but it wasn't no "Pirates of the Carribean" sized budget either.




I doubt Smith put himself in a finanacial predicament to just have a home movie....I'm sure he never realized how big it was going to become, but it was by no means a home movie.




I'm not quite sure what you mean by "flood the sequel with personality", but if your implying that they were off character...I disagree. Dante and Randal, while sharing that same dynamic they did in Clerks 2...have actually grown up a little, while keeping their friendship intact. Ben Affleck, has been an Askewniverse fixture since Mallrats...before he was "A-list".



All part of the fun. It's an Askewniverse flick....that's all I can say.



When did that happen?



NONONO...don't get it twisted, he didn't walk out because it was "over the top"...he walked out because of the continued references to the Donkey Show. He was disgusted and angry, and he displayed his disgusted anger as he exited the theater. How full of yourself do you have to be, in order to disrupt a press screening the way he did? He left 40 minutes into the movie, he didn't even get to the dance number you're referring to.




Are you joking, this movie already has a buzz to it. I haven't seen a movie yet this summer, that didn't have a SoaP trailer attached to it, and the audiences were just eating it up.

And then the Internet has been glowing with the buzz on this movie...some people think it's going to be great, some people think it's going to suck- but either way both camps have said they are going to see this. (There's always people who say "******** this" I'm not going...) But for the most part it's been positive. I'll be surprised if it flops. Just judging the reactions of movie audiences and the internet talk being generated.

WTF? I've seen this movie like 7 times already, and I don't recall the scene you're talking about....weird. Placement wise, when did it happen?



No problem, I really wasn't trying to get into an analysis of Clerks, but more of an example of how full of themselves I think Movie Critics can be. I think sometimes they take their job a little too seriously.




Maybe my problem with the word of mouth, is becuase I'm constantly finding myself in disgreement with the opinion of damn near everyone.
Xmen 3, Clerks 2, and the new Fast and the Furious movie, to name just a couple of movies that I didn't find as disappointing as the word of mouth generated about them........

That must be it, because I don't recall that scene ANYWHERE....kind of had me worried there for a second....you never know when you're gonna start going senile.