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Directed By
Kevin Smith
Written By:
Kevin Smith
Cast:
Priscilla Barnes, Shannen Doherty, Jason Lee, Claire Forlani, Michael Rooker, Renee Humphrey, Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Mewes, Brian O'Halloran, Kevin Smith, Jeremy London, Stan Lee, Art James, David Brinkley
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Mallrats (1995)
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Movie Review by Thom
May 8th, 2008
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Mallrat Droppings
Favorite Movie Quote: "Whoopie? Oh, you mean f*ckin'!"
I'll never in a million years figure out what people see in this low-brow, pointless, meaningless, sometimes funny lark in filmmaking. Kevin Smith has made better - half the people on YouTube have made better. It's worth only a handful of laughs, and beyond that has nothing to offer.
Mallrats chronicles the escapades of T.S. Quint (one of the uncharismatic, untalented London twins) and Brodie (Jason Lee playing one of his many indistinguishable Askewnerverse personas) who have simultaneously torpedoed their respective relationships by being such self-absorbed losers that their enabling girlfriends can no longer stand it. To comfort their bruised egos, our intrepid adventurers go to the mall. Here they encounter a softened Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith) amongst a cadre of other mallrats. Also wandering the mall are their girlfriends which inspires the two on a quest to win them back.
Make no mistake, you'll laugh your ass off the first time that you watch Mallrats, and you'll snicker a few times if you watch it again years later. The only thing that you'll take with you in the interim, however, is that Jason Lee is the only thing that made it so. He has all the best lines, the best delivery, and is the only one of the four main leads that has the charisma to hold a camera on the silver screen. Every laugh is gotten on his word; everyone else is just there to deliver the set-up lines.
There's nothing else in the movie that holds any water. Jay and Silent Bob are part of some bizarre plot to sack a gameshow stage, Ethan Suplee can't see the sailboat, and the biggest laugh is gotten on Brodie's rant about kids riding the escalator. The actual story has zero impact because we don't give a crap about the characters involved.
Thankfully, Smith moved on to a better class of movie; even Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was a better film than Mallrats.
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 | Zara
May 8, 2008 11:55 PM
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You weren't a Mallrat.
And I disagree that Lee is the only one with the great lines. Doherty went toe to toe with him on the "Mighty Mouse Speech" and the "Elevator speech."
It was this movie that probably destroyed me for enjoying anything that Lee's been involved with that didn't have to do with Smith. MALLRATS and CHASING AMY are the best points of his career, when he wasn't so much acting as he was being that former skateboarder douchbag, the kind of guy that was in my pack of friends growing up, stuck in front of a camera and left to ham it up. |
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May 9, 2008 2:56 AM
No, I wasn't a Mallrat. Never wanted to be one either. Doesn't change the fact that the movie isn't really about anything; when I started reviewing Mallrats, I forgot that one of the Londons was in it, as well as Claire Forlani. I suppose hating Brenda was better; at least I remembered her. : )