Clerks II

"With no power comes no responsibility."

2006 1h 37m EN

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6.9

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★6.9TMDB · 1,550

Comedy

Synopsis

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A calamity at Dante and Randall's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional Disney-McDonald's-style fast-food empire.

“With no power comes no responsibility.”

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Cast

Brian O'Halloran
Dante
Jeff Anderson
Randal
Rosario Dawson
Becky
Jason Mewes
Jay
Kevin Smith
Silent Bob
Jennifer Schwalbach Smith
Emma
Ben Affleck
Gawking Guy
Trevor Fehrman
Elias

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Kevin Smith
Writers: Kevin Smith
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Made its money back 5.4× over at the box office.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 20 years ago.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Clerks Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Kevin Smith, shot by David Klein. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by James L. Venable. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Kevin Smith shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson and Rosario Dawson carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "With no power comes no responsibility.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Kevin Smith directs. David Klein behind the camera. James L. Venable scores. Kevin Smith cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Made its money back 5.4× over at the box office.
2Released 20 years ago.
3Part of the "Clerks Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Kevin Smith, shot by David Klein. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by James L. Venable. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Kevin Smith shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson and Rosario Dawson carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "With no power comes no responsibility.".
9IMDB entry: tt0424345 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: David Klein
Original score: James L. Venable
Editing: Kevin Smith
Production design: Robert Holtzman
Costume design: Roseanne Fiedler
Makeup / hair: Brooke Bell
Runtime: 97 min · 1h 37m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $5,000,000
Box office: $26,986,174
Return: 540% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Clerks II (2006)

Part of

Clerks Collection

A collection for the Clerks movies by Kevin Smith. Clerks was released in 1994, Clerks II in 2006 and Clerks III in 2022.

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Kevin Smith

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Filipe Manuel Neto2023-03-25
★ 6/10
Despite being an improvement over the previous film, it still has a very stupid style of humor. When I saw the first “Clerks” movie, I found it quite rude, uninteresting, based on endless and boring dialogues. And I confess that I did not expect anything better here. The film, however, managed to surprise me and give me more than I expected. The action takes place about ten years after the first film (which is correct, the sequel only appeared ten years after the original) and shows how Dante, the central character of this plot, left his hated convenience store to work in a fast food restaurant. He's still not interested in the job, and hates the place, but he's engaged to a blonde beauty who plans to take him to Florida, where her father is going to give them a home. However, whoever is destined to be a Nobody cannot expect many strokes of luck, and he will, in a single day, throw everything away. Of course, Randal, his old buddy, will take his share of the blame for what happens. If the first film failed for having no script, just a succession of intelligent but rude and uninteresting dialogues, this film corrected that flaw and gave the characters a decent story. However, decent does not mean good: although this was a great advance, the film has a huge romantic subplot that seems to have been written on a high school, because it works rather poorly and is unconvincing. Another problem with the film is the quality of most of the characters involved because almost all of them are sketchy, one-dimensional, uninteresting and some of them are just clowns who throw us jokes and more jokes worthy of a military barracks or a college dorm. This leads us to talk about humour! Thought to be the strong point of this film, the comedy is based on scatological, sexual and unhygienic humour. Jokes about poor hygiene in a restaurant or bestiality or several other sexual practices flow freely and abundantly, like a flood in a sewer after a storm. There are also references to other films (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars…), most of which not very complimentary. Anyway! This humor is not only rude, but also stupid. The actors from the previous film (Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith) are back for the characters they already know and to do again what they had already done. The big improvement is really from O'Halloran, who showed a better job and talent to do something more challenging and competent. But it's Rosario Dawson who deserves the most attention: her character is convincing, likable and smarter than the rest, while still being funny when she wants to be (brain and humor go hand in hand, take note, director Kevin Smith). Ben Affleck also appears here, in a short, uninteresting and forgettable cameo. Truly pitiful is Trevor Fehrman's performance… he wasn't an actor, he didn't go beyond the most pathetic silliness.

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