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By: Iggy Stop
Date: 13th Sep 06
Format: Cinema
Mood: Leave brain at home
What:
Clerks II
Where:
General Release
Watch the trailer:
here
When Clerk shit screens in 1994, ThreeThousand was going through puberty. Life was awkward, cheap and swearing in public was hilarious. Back then Clerks was the perfect accompaniment to our juvenile irreverence. Now don’tget ahead of us. We’re not trying to suggest that juvenility or irreverence don’t hold our hands through day-to-day encounters anymore. They do. But since puberty other things have changed - we’ve grown (however slightly). This is where Clerks and ThreeThousand not-so-amicably part ways.
Clerks II is a thick-necked, technicolour travesty of its former self. What’s more,it’s managed to gain that post-Saturn return confidence/delusion that 90s losers have something to say that’s worth listening to. View Askew parodies itself and its title by vomiting forth what is essentially avery conservative message in a failed shock shot. And come on, Rosario Dawson and Brian O’Halloran?