Clerks II

[squints]

Jay looks like a woman.

[hedwig]

Jay looks like Ann Coulter.

[sickfins]

the guy on the very left...his face, i just...i can't---someone explain it to me

[squints]

the guy on the very left...his face, i just...i can't---someone explain it to me

um...he's aged ten years?

[cron]

it's that messed up goate he has. but the second face is the one that worries me the most. is he about to barf? are they all getting oral sex?
very obnoxious mugshots. they induce to vomit.
shame on you, rosario dawson. 

[JG]

i'm pretty sure that part of the goatee from his chin to his lip is shifted to the left.   Plus, everything from the eyes above looks like a Goodfellas-era Ray Liotta. 

[modage]

i think this is new:

i mean, i know i posted one a page ago, and it has a link to this one now, and isnt given a new name, so maybe i'm crazy, but.... i think this is new.

[MacGuffin]

Clerks II New Release Date
Counter culture to return in July.

It's official... The Weinstein Company announced today that they'll release Kevin Smith's Clerks II on July 21st. The new release date moves the "follow up" (as Kevin prefers to call it) almost a full month forward from it's initial August 18th date.

Today, via Myspace, Kevin writes it's "a ballsy move that says "F*** you: we're a five million dollar flick and we're coming out in the f****** middle of the summer, bitches!" So, why the move? "Getting into Cannes changed everything."

[JG]

Bestiality Film: 8 Minute Cannes Ovation

Spoilers Warning! 

Maybe you remember "Clerks," the hilarious indie film that put director Kevin Smith on the map more than a decade ago. Since then, he's brought us some good ones ("Chasing Amy"), some that are controversial ("Dogma") and some that are only for the faithful ("Jersey Girl," "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back").

Last night Smith returned to form in a post-midnight premiere of "Clerks 2," the long awaited sequel that reunites the still unknown stars of the first film and adds the delightful Rosario Dawson to the mix. The result was a huge eight minute standing ovation in the Claude DeBussy Theater in the Palais at 2 a.m. Saturday.

And this was despite the fact that the film -- hilarious, moving and shocking -- is simultaneously a meditation on friendship, aging and bestiality. Yes, you read that correctly. Much is made of a well-dressed donkey that is forced into interspecies commingling with its owner as part of an after-hours going away party in a fast food restaurant called Mooby's. The movie has an R rating, and the donkey may be featured in a For Your Consideration ad in Variety next winter.

Besides the donkey, "Clerks 2" also features extended cameos by Jason Lee and Wanda Sykes, a walk-on from Ben Affleck, and of course Smith himself as his long-running character Silent Bob with partner Jason Mewes as Jay. The clerks of the title are still played by longtime-Smith-pals Jeff Anderson (Randall) and Brian O'Halloran (Dante); Smith's real-life wife, Jennifer, is featured as Dante's clueless fiancée Emma.


This is good news for The Weinstein Company, which will have a huge summer hit. Smith is one of their franchise players, coming from the original—real—Miramax.

The premise of "Clerks 2" is pretty simple. The Quick Stop where Randall and Dante have been clerks since we last saw them in 1994 burns down, and the pair—now in their 30s—move over to Mooby's where Dante has had a one-night stand on the prep table with the manager (Dawson). Before finding out that she's pregnant, Dante makes plans to move away with Emma. Silent Bob and Jay move their dope peddling from the Quick Stop to Mooby's as well, and Randall plans the Donkey Show for Dante. It's that simple, and no, it's no "Da Vinci Code," that's for sure.

But fans of Smith—who are legion—as well as teens in general and the college crowd, are going to adore "Clerks 2," which was originally titled "The Passion of the Clerks." In the middle of all this nuttiness and "Animal House" inspired moments (the poor donkey is certainly the cinematic descendant of the dead horse in the dean's office), Smith has crafted a nifty little tale of friends who love each other—as they say over and over, not in the gay way—but realize their extended adolescence must finally come to an end.

What's really amazing about "Clerks 2" is that it works at all. The first "Clerks" was a cult hit, and unlike with say John Sayles's "The Return of the Secaucus Seven," the actors never went on to anything other than recurring in Smith's world. To find them not only picking up where they left off, but also making the whole thing work again, is quite an achievement. A lot of it has to do with Dawson, who is so natural, appealing, and evolved as Becky that she pulls the whole enterprise together.

Special mention, by the way, has to go to Jason Mewes. Unlike his cohorts, he's managed to get some other roles in the recent past in some great unseen B or C movies that are either already on DVD or simply can't be sold. In "Bottom's Up," his biggest one, he co-stars with our friend Paris Hilton, whose own "House of Wax" and "Pledge This" would have benefited from having a donkey as well.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197269,00.html#1

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Smith On Cannes

Last night, we debuted "Clerks II" at the Cannes Film Festival.

WireImage.com's pics of the cast/crew arrival at the Palais, as well as pics from pre-and-post show.

With all the vitriol surrounding some of the press screenings of flicks there this year, I was pretty terrified "Clerks II", also, might be greeted by a chorus of French Boos (and I ain't talking about champagne).

However, after last night, I say "VIVA LA FRANCE!"

When the flick ended and the credits started rolling, a standing ovation began that lasted a full eight minutes. It was surreal and wonderful, and it just kept going and going. I looked to Harvey (Weinstein, our boss), that old Cannes war-horse, to see if the cast and I should start heading out of the theater: as it was two in the morning and the applause wasn't showing any signs of stopping. But from two aisles back, he responded with a waving "No" finger at me, mouthing the words "Don't move." So we all stayed put.

By the time the credits ended, I figured the audience was done applauding as well.

But they weren't.

They just kept on clapping. And thankfully, not only did Zack and Joey get the whole thing on tape to prove it all happened (watch for it in a new "Train Wreck" video blog, up this weekend), but Roger Friedman over at Fox411 was there was well, documenting what I have to say was one of the twenty most amazing moments of my life.

Read Roger's Piece, "Clerks II Delights Cannes", right here. But be warned: it also contains a very positive review of the flick that gives away some major plot points. SPOILERS ABOUND!

(Added 5/28: Britain's Empire Magazine runs a sort-of review of "Clerks II"...)

The applause finally stopped after eight minutes. Harvey was over the moon about it. "In my thirty years of coming here, I've never seen a standing ovation last that long at a midnight show in Cannes," he said. "Ever."

En route to the theater, I prayed that the notoriously fickle Cannes' audience wouldn't boo the flick. During the screening, I prayed that the film would keep playing as gang-busters as it had been playing up 'til that point, and that the audience stayed with us, rather than succumb to mid-flick naps. After the screening, I started praying that I never forget that insanely special moment that I shared with Jeff, Brian, Rosario, Mos and Jen - when time seemed to stand still, and at the world's most famous film festival, we all stared wide-eyed (and wider-smiled) at a room-full of cats staring back at us (with equally wide smiles and palms cooked red from non-stop applause) who really, really "got" what we were trying to communicate with "Clerks II".

Life comes down to a few major moments. Last night was definitely one of them.

"Clerks II" - July 21, in theaters everywhere.

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[Pubrick]

if you're up at 2am watching a kevin smith movie, bestiality is probably what you're into anyway.

[hedwig]

"only for the faithful" is an awesome euphemism for "shit." i'm stealing it.

[modage]

"only for the faithful" is an awesome euphemism for "shit." i'm stealing it.

sorry.

[MacGuffin]

[hedwig]

either rosario plays a dominatrix with a dislocated shoulder, or that's not her actual body.

[MacGuffin]

Kevin Smith Needs Your Help

Kevin Smith's films have not exactly been burning through the box office of late, although until Jersey Girl most of them could be (and were) viewed as modest successes by Smith and his fans. This means he needs either a good box office return or a great critical reception in the manner of Chasing Amy  -- preferably both -- for his upcoming Clerks 2. To help with this goal, Smith has been inducting his fans into a personal marketing team, creating a contest to get the word out on his latest theatrical release. The deal is this: fans are to post Clerks 2 banners (which link back to the film's website) in every possible internet forum available to them: MySpace, websites, forums, message boards, etc. The fan who gets his banner in the most unique and/or impressive location will receive a guaranteed on-camera appearance in the very next View Askew film. Nine runners up will also get some manner of swag.