Clerks 2: Viva Pillowpants!!!

[Keith Justice]

If you're gonna be that picky, why not have Affleck and Lee play their roles from Mallrats intead of Chasing Amy, or their roles from Dogma? The only time they've ever had a continious role is between Chasing Amy and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, purely so they could use the the side story of the creation of the comic Bluntman and Chronic to give them some kind of purpose.

I don't care who they play, so long as we get some of that rich continuity that got built up.

There is barely any continuity. If there was any continiuty used in this film it is from the first movie and the animated series, which is the way it should be. If they're gonna use characters from Chasing Amy, then Dante wouldn't be Dante, he'd be Jim Hicks.

It's been stated several times that Dante's got look a like cousins, so he could still be Dante.

Try to not think of it as 1 universe, but rather multiple universes that have 1 thing in common, Jay and Silent Bob. They were side characters in this film just like they were in Clerks, as they should be, no need for big story behind them. I wish they had that Russian d00d that sang Berserker though.

I liked the one world.... I was hoping to see the original Willum return.

I really enjoyed Clerks II, it definitely had the spirit of the first movie, which I adore. The best was the whole Porch Monkey thing, and how they turned it into a running gag.

I'd totally forgot a Porch Monkey was a racial slur until several reactions from those customers and Dante and the girl. :sweat:

 

[Kyusaku]

I don't care who they play, so long as we get some of that rich continuity that got built up.

Then I would've preferred Lee's character of Brody in Mallrats, because he was awesome. And Affleck's character of the d00d from Fashionable Male because I hate Affleck and that character was such a jerk. There was a few references to Clerks in Mallrats, so I see that as the most appropriate.

 

[Keith Justice]

Amen to that, I loved Brody... and Mallrats, even though Smith hated it.

 

[VengeanceGOD]

Wait, what? Kevin Smith doesn't hate Mallrats, he was just dissapointed with how it bombed in theatres.

 

[laudre]

Oh, god, I loved it.

Clerks was the right movie at the right time, about what life is like when you're 20 and not sure what you want to do with your life, just content to sit around with your friends and stuff.

Clerks II is about a different time in life, about what happens when you're not in your twenties anymore and it's time to figure out what your life is going to be about. It's about the doubts and the questions and the way we sometimes run what we think we're supposed to want.

The only thing I wanted in this movie that it didn't have (that I caught, anyway)? Direct references to the cartoon. (I love the cartoon -- I want MOAR of it.)

 

[MegaRyu124x]

That's right...

True, they do have their money from that.

 

[MegaRyu124x]

Oh, god, I loved it.

Clerks was the right movie at the right time, about what life is like when you're 20 and not sure what you want to do with your life, just content to sit around with your friends and stuff.

Clerks II is about a different time in life, about what happens when you're not in your twenties anymore and it's time to figure out what your life is going to be about. It's about the doubts and the questions and the way we sometimes run what we think we're supposed to want.

The only thing I wanted in this movie that it didn't have (that I caught, anyway)? Direct references to the cartoon. (I love the cartoon -- I want MOAR of it.)

I haven't even reached my twenties, but I see that happening. :buttrock:

 

[Misfits923]

There was continuity in this movie. Jay and Silent Bob have $50,000 because of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

You know what. At the Wizard World Chicago Q&A for Kevin Smith, I will ask him how Jay and Bob came up w/ the money. Because if memory served me correct, they used up some of the money to flying out to the kids' places and beating the crap out of them

 

[VengeanceGOD]

True, but they may not have used ALL of the money. Maybe.

Hell, I dunno.

 

[Kyusaku]

Maybe there's a deleted scene that mentions the source of the money. I'd imagined they would've used all their money flying around beating up all those kids.