Clerks II(2006 - Kevin Smith)
I'm not one to write a long movie review, so I'll keep this short. Clerks II opens up 10 years after the original, in black and white, with a 33 year old Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) opening up the good ol' Quick Stop, where he's been working for the past ten years, only to find that it is on fire. Suddenly, the world gets a little color. Dante and his longtime friend Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson) find out they finally have to get new jobs, so they go to Mooby's, a McDonalds-esque fast food joint seen in other Kevin Smith movies. There, they meet their boss Becky (Rosario Dawson) and a 19 year-old Lord of the Rings and Transformers fan named Elias (Trevor Fehrman). As the movie progresses, Dante and Randal finally "grow up" and try to do something with their lives. Hilarity ensues. As usual, Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) make their appearances in this movie.
Chock full of racial tension, messing with food, Hellen Keller, Anne Frank, and the usual cameos from Ben Affleck and Jason Lee, Clerks II proves to be a good sequel to the beloved Clerks of 12 years ago. There are some parts in the movie that are supposed to be funny, but really aren't, but most of it had the audience laughing.
Overall, I would rate the movie as good, but not as good as the first Clerks.
Clerks II gets a B+
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"You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory."
-Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
"You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory."
-Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore