Kevin Smith’s original Clerks is now considered a cult classic and gave the idea that anyone with a handheld camera could make a movie. Clerks was well acted, smart, and just straight out hilarious. The sequel not only keeps many of these elements that worked so well in Clerks but in some cases actually improves on them. The film reunites Brian O Halloran and Jeff Anderson who played Dante and Randal in the first film and their still on top of their game here in this film.

The movie starts off with the fames Quick Stop burning down leaving Dante and Randal at the end of an era which Dante remembers as the worst of his life and Randal as his best. The film then cuts to around a year later and we find out that the two are now working at Mooby’s, a fast food restaurant, and it is Dante’ very last day in New Jersey since he is moving to Florida to get married to his fiancée who is played by Jennifer Smith. We are then introduced to Mooby’s owner played by Rosario Dawson, their impossibly geeky co worker Elias played by Trevor Fehrman, and of course the immortal Jay and Silent Bob played by Jason Mewes and director Kevin Smith.

Now this sequel was completely unnecessary seeing as how the first one ended perfectly, and we knew everything that we needed to know, but thankfully Kevin Smith does us right with this movie and gives us an interesting believable story that still makes us care for these characters which we haven’t seen in twelve years. Kevin Smith direction truly shines here in which he is able to give us a movie with a musical number, references to racism, sexual activities, lord of the ring and star wars debates, and even a damn donkey show. I may be wrong but I can’t think of another director who could pull that off and have me laughing for almost the entire runtime.

There’s not really much else to say about this movie. The story is tightly written and incredibly creative, the acting isn’t great but it fits well with the movie, and while it takes us back and forth from random jokes that are drop dead hilarious the movie never loses it’s main focus on it being Dante’s last day and Randal wanting to do something special for him. It’s even so perfectly executed later on in the movie when Dante and Randal are in a jail cell that they finally reveal what they’re feeling. It’s an enclosed space and it’s sort of the perfect setting for the revelation, there’s no where for either of them to run to or hide.   All of this in only around 95 minutes makes up for one of my favorite comedies of the past decade and I give it a well deserved 4/5.

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