Quick Movie Review: Mallrats

Everyone likes Kevin Smith, right? Not his films though.

Maybe the likes of Clerks, Chasing Amy and Mallrats are an acquired taste after all, and I'm just a freak. Sure the loose series, consisting of, in order

1. Clerks
2. Mallrats
3. Chasing Amy
4. Dogma
   
5. Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back
6. Clerks II

This loose series is patchy in both tone and quality (Chasing Amy is notably entirely different in tone) and some of the geekish humour and injoking turns a lot of people off and I'm not unsympathetic to these views.

I do, however, disagree.
Lets look at Mallrats itself. It's not going to climb all the way to the top of an Empire poll any time soon, it's just simply great fun. More accessible than maybe any of his other films it concerns a John Hughes style relationship drama as its two main protagonists are ldumped by their girlfriends and go hang out at the mall for the day to cheer themselves up.

Really thats all you really need to know - mayhem ensues, some of which is Jay and Slent Bob centred and they are always worth the entrance fee for me just on their own.

Smith is a star at writing realistic yet simulaneously pretentious dialogue ("Lois could not have Superman's baby") and I'll always be a fan. If you want to check out Smith's films, and are prrkpared to overlook Claire Forlani's appalling performance then this is a great place to start. It's not the best (for me that's Clerks) or most polished (That J&SBSB) but it is the most accessible.

See and enjoy.

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