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CLERKS 2 Ten years after the original left off we find disgruntled Deli clerk Dante Hicks working begrudgingly at a fast food restaurant. His foul-mouthed sidekick Randal follows him and two of the most famous dead beats in history (followed by Bevis and Butthead or course) Jay and Silent Bob. The film involves Dante on the verge of marrying somebody that he doesn’t truly love and moving to another state to start his new life. However, many things happen to stop and corrupt the marriage in a true madcap hysterical ways. This film is what I love about Kevin Smith, who wrote, directed and starred in the first film. Kevin Smith plays the infamous Silent Bob and produced five movies where that character (and Jay) is the star in. The first film was very poignant, low budget, but extremely well acted and written and it shows that it was a labor of love; the product, was one of the funniest films ever put on film. In between Clerks and the sequel Kevin Smith’s budgets increased, got bigger stars, and had longer films, however nothing compares with his no-budget script of CLERKS, which anybody who lived in a small town could relate. CLERKS 2, feels like a sequel, looks like a sequel and reads like a sequel, but it’s just as funny as the original. However, traditional Hollywood ending took over the ending of the film and made it happy over the more ambiguous ending of the original. But there is some witty and incredible original dialogue that makes Kevin Smith one of the best dialogue writers of cinema. This is definitely worth it to anybody who loves Kevin Smith films, dislikes the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, or just wants to laugh over and over again. 

Side note, in the original film there was an alternate ending that was considered too dark for audiences and they abandoned it for the ending where Dante just closes the store. Rent the DVD to see the original ending.