Clerks II is com­ing out! Run for you lives!

For some of you, you’re won­der­ing what I’m talk­ing about. Like my par­ents. If you’re like me, you know that Clerks II is a sequel to Clerks, the 1994 film that cleaned up at Sun­dance and made a star of direc­tor Kevin Smith, who, upon find­ing out his film had been selected for Sun­dance, had to close up the con­ve­nience store he was work­ing at at the time. It was a great rags to riches story, very Capra-esque.

At the time I loved Clerks. At the time.

After repeated view­ings I think it grows less and less funny, but that first time that you see it it is hilar­i­ous, usu­ally. It’s very much a guy com­edy, though, I don’t know many girls that like Clerks.

And then he started mak­ing movies, none of which really did as well as Clerks. It’s like the story of a band’s 2nd album : the first album took 8 years to make, the 2nd, 3 months. And they’re never as good.

He made Mall­rats, Chas­ing Amy, Dogma and then Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. After that came the worst of the worst, from what I hear, yes I haven’t seen it, Jer­sey Girl.

And now, with fail­ure star­ing him in the face, he comes full cir­cle with what made him pop­u­lar. A Clerks sequel.

Lame!