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Me at the beginning of the episode: oh c'mon, the writer (whom I a share an alma mater with, btw) just wanted to give his character his own episode
Me at the end of the episode: Holy crap, this was a great episode!
I was thinking the same thing. He at least sorta coached in the first two seasons. Now he's just whining all the time about his ex-wife dating their marriage counselor.
Yeah, I was actually liking the movie until the killer(s) reveal. Relatives of the previous film's killer is a lame twist by now.
I felt that way too. I expected a montage of Damian moving his way up to a title shot or maybe a string of title defenses, but nope he just fought the two matches.
I still liked it though...
His mother assuming that's even who she was.
The food critic's editor didn't seem so bad...
He only experienced antisemitism when he was in CA, not AZ.
I feel like if they wanted to do an end piece/bookend/full circle/restrospective/nostalgia type thing, the plot could have been that Dante and Randal are closing the Quick Stop and it's the last day it'll be open. Clerks took place in one day. Clerks 2 was mostly just one day albeit with opening and closing scenes taking place earlier/later.
Killing off Becky, Dante, and their child was too dark for these movies. It felt like fan fiction and not a true Clerks 3. As for fewer laughs than the first two, maybe I was expecting too much. The third movie in a trilogy is almost never the best and that's especially true in a COMEDY trilogy. It's just that half the jokes were rehashed from the first Clerks. They weren't even reworded like they had been in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (repeating jokes from Strike Back).
I've stuck with it too long to give up now, but yeah it's pretty disappointing. They've also left out some characters from the first season with no explanation. In Episode 6, they teased the return of an original duck and then in Episode 7, nothing.
Well that was a giant tease...
There wasn't much comedy in this compared to the first two. That's a big reason why it was a let-down.
Not that I have a problem with Smith being serious..I liked the "serious" scenes in the first two, but this one just went too far. The first two dealt with relatable themes of not knowing what to do with your life or how to improve it. I'm a decade younger than the characters, but I've been there. This one could have continued to expand on those ideas with Dante and Randal pushing 50, but instead Smith just decided to be edgy and kill off/endanger beloved characters.
I was thinking it was Kenan Thompson's character as he was, if I remember correctly, the only one from California.
Wolverine was featured heavily in the cartoon yes, but he didn't dominate nearly as much as the live-action movies. There were plenty of episodes where Wolverine just had a supporting role including most of the multi-episode arcs.
"Really strange movie. It wasn't a bad movie. But it definitely wasn't a Clerks movie. Overly self-reflective sappy affair that happened to use Clerks' setting and characters for its framework. Smith's voice over in the end credits made it clear more than anything that this was just a passion project for him."
I've been pretty critical of this movie, but I guess I can accept this. If people want to like Clerks 3, fine, but at the very least it's not a good CLERKS movie. It does feel like Smith just wanted to do something inspired by his heart attack and subsequent near-death experience, but maybe it should've been outside the View Askewniverse. Keep in mind before his heart attack, he had said Clerks 2 really was the end and he had stuck to that for promise for over a decade. He only made Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (which I still liked better than Clerks 3) after the heart attack.
I get you're being sarcastic, but I liked Reboot better-no unnecessary character deaths and more laughs.
It's definitely my least favorite View Askew...I guess it's at least better than Cop Out or Yoga Hosers.
How stupid were those guys to think Johnny and Robby were actual FBI? The FBI doesn't wear t-shirts in the field.
I don't get the hate for Reboot (yes, I know you said you just thought it was ok, but a lot of people seem to hate it)..maybe it's because I didn't think Strike Back was that good either. I never liked the parts with Will Ferrell and/or the jewel thieves.
I'd take either over the travesty that is Clerks 3.
I doubt she would've been in it much more if her character had been alive. If they had to say she died, I wish it wouldn't have been RIGHT AFTER Clerks 2. That puts more of a downer on the ending of Clerks 2 than if she had died in, say, 2011 or something.
Completely agree with your review, and you said it better than I could've. It's refreshing after seeing so many people praise this movie. I have liked every View Askew movie until this one including the Jay and Silent Bob-led movies (I actually think the first was the weaker one though). In fact, I own every single one on DVD.
It's not as good as the first, but I still really like it. I'm hard-pressed to think of a comedy from the 2000s that I like more. They could've left out the donkey scene and some of Randal's more over-the-top dialogue.