{"id":38,"date":"2006-09-24T23:20:12","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T23:20:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-10-06T22:15:17","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T22:15:17","slug":"clerks_ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/2006\/09\/24\/clerks_ii\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Clerks II&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Classification: 15 (yey! &#8211; something that&#8217;s not 12A!)<\/li>\n<li>Runtime: 101 min<\/li>\n<li>UK release date: 22\/9\/2006<\/li>\n<li>Directed and written by: Kevin Smith<\/li>\n<li>Starring: Brian O\u2019Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to believe it&#8217;s 12 years since <i>Clerks<\/i> burst onto our screens with it&#8217;s low budget of $27,575 financed by 10 credit cards belonging to Kevin Smith.  <i>Clerks II<\/i> continues the story of Dante &#8220;<i>I&#8217;m not even supposed to be here, today!<\/i>&#8221; Hicks and Randall Graves working at the &#8216;Quick Stop&#8217; convenience store.  10 years on, and after Randall leaves the coffee pot on, again, a fire forces the pair to work at a Mooby&#8217;s fast-food restaurant.  Jay and Silent Bob still skulk around outside the building but now (thanks to <i>Dogma<\/i>), they have found God &#8211; this makes no difference to their behaviour &#8211; or language&#8230; they just carry a bible.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing the story arcs throughout his films: <i>Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma,<\/i> and <i>Jay &amp; Silent Bob Strike Back<\/i>; Smith incorporates the usual features such as <i>Star Wars<\/i> (very entertaining scene comparing it to <i>The Lord of the Rings<\/i> trilogy); smoking and selling weed; Mooby the Golden Calf; the Buddy Christ; as well as a &#8216;milk maid&#8217; who makes a worthy appearance in the final scene.  Small (but welcome) cameos from Ben Affleck and Jason Lee make the movies consistent and it&#8217;s good to see Jason Mewes (as Jay) well and working again.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t anticipate a masterpiece, but <i>Clerks II<\/i> is a well worthy sequel &#8211; especially for Kevin Smith fans.  Smith makes the movies he <i>wants<\/i> to make &#8211; sure, he suffers criticism (I hear Jonathan Ross wasn&#8217;t too kind about this one!), but he takes it, moves on and comes back with a bang.  <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a Smith fan &#8211; go and see the movie; if you love Jay &amp; Silent Bob &#8211; go and see the movie; if you need a laugh &#8211; go and see the movie, it&#8217;s well worth it &#8211; I loved it! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classification: 15 (yey! &#8211; something that&#8217;s not 12A!) Runtime: 101 min UK release date: 22\/9\/2006 Directed and written by: Kevin Smith Starring: Brian O\u2019Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson It&#8217;s difficult to believe it&#8217;s 12 years since Clerks burst onto our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/2006\/09\/24\/clerks_ii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2983,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}