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You haven't seen this film? Forget the reviews....
Many critics were disappointed with Mallrats, seeing it as unworthy successor to Kevin Smith's directing-writing debut Clerks and as an inferior film to his third effort, the excellent Chasing Amy. But Mallrats has an identity of it's own and should not be judged by the standards of Smith's two other VERY different films. In this comedy, the excellent Jason Lee plays Brodie Bruce, who has just been dumped by girlfriend Rene (90210'S Shannen Doherty) and whose best friend, T.S. Quint (Jeremy London) has ALSO been dumoped by HIS paramour, Brandi Svenning (the beautiful Claire Forlani of Meet Joe Black fame). The two dudes try to figure out how they can get their girls back while visiting the local mall, where they meet up with characters like Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Mr. Smith himself), Shannon Hamilton (Ben Affleck), Gwen Turner (Joey Lauren Adams of Chasing Amy), Mr. Svenning (Michael Rooker, of Henry: Potrait of a Serial Killer and JFK), Willam (Ethan Suplee of American History X), 16 year old sex book author Tricia Jones (Renee Humphreys), and many other interesting and hilarious charcters, including comics legend Stan Lee playing himself. This is a hilarious movie, with very funny moments and set pieces, and most of the actors do an excellent job (those who don't know who you are). A great film, highly recommended, and a great drinking movie. Enjoy...

Mallrats just got better with this DVD
Let's face it, Mallrats was trashed by the critics, but to most View Askew fans, it was a great comedy. Kevin Smith's follow-up to Clerks follows a simple story of two best friends who are both dumped by their girlfriends, and decide that the only way to overcome their problems is to go to the mall. Well their one faithful day at the mall turns into a quest to get their girlfriends back and much much more. Two other local mallrats named Jay and Silent Bob are always hanging around, and you never know what is going to happen next. The DVD package for Mallrats is great and loaded with extras. The extras include a great commentary by Kevin Smith, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes, Ben Affleck, Scott Mosier, and Vincent Pereira, over 1 hour of deleted scenes, video clips from the commentary session, a Mallrats featurette, a trailer, some production photos, a music video, and a cool comic book like mini-booklet. If you love the ViewAskew movies, than pick this one up now!

What a stinky piece of poo
This movie basically takes MTV's Tom Green character - loud, obnoxious, and utterly clueless - and puts him in a Seinfeld skit. There are plenty of conversations about nothing, but unfortunately for the movie makers, it takes some modicum of cleverness to do a successful Seinfeld comedy. There's absolutely none here. It's just never ending babbling. Did I mention loud, obnoxious and clueless? That can't be repeated often enough in describing this thing, and really should be in all caps.

We're introduced to our main character, Brodie, as he kicks Shannen Doherty out of bed so he can play a video game. We're supposed to like him. He then proceeds to talk, nonstop, obnoxiously and utterly without wit, throughout the length of the movie. His sidekick T.S. is identical, except that he can't get a word in edgewise due to Brodie's obnoxious, interminable ranting.

There are some other characters that provide a welcome, though all-too-short break from this torture. Shannen Doherty has what amounts to little more than a cameo. She's really the only likable character in the thing. Joey Lauren Adams plays a comically (...) girl, and gets two or three very short scenes. Some guys named Jay and Silent Bob play a Wile E. Coyote skit every once in a while. But the relief is short and all too seldom - it's always right back to the "how fast and furiously can I recite my insipid lines" character of Brodie. There's a game show at the end - the film makers are hoping that you'll find it so amusing that people swear while on televeision that you'll keep laughing for the entire 30 minutes of it. It's really impossible to sit through. I had my DVD player all the way up to 100X fast forward during that part.

The trouble is, these characters are so unlikable that it's inconceivable they even had girlfriends in the first place. Therefore the plot is a waste of time. There's an abyssmal lack of wit throughout the rest of it; it's as tiresome as sitting through 30 standing ovations during a State of the Union address.

My advice: Avoid at all costs.

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