Product ReviewsClerks (DVD, 1999)

Guilty Giggles

It'll have you in tears laughing, if you don't mind the raunchy, crass, and/or crude humor. An amusing look at the banality of the lives of store clerks that, after years, brought me back for another look. I'm sure I'll pull it off my shelf again in the future.Read full review...

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Kevin Smith is Dark, Sinical and Golden in Clerks

From Miramax, Clerks is one of those Kevin Smith movies that has developed a massive cult following… and for great reason. This movie is hilariously sarcastic and dark look at the mundane life of two, obviously, clerks. Take the tag line for instance: “Just because they serve you.. doesn’t mean they like you.”

Rolling Stone called it “Screamingly Funny!”
New York Newsday called it “The Funniest Movie of the Year!”

If you’re in the market for what the Detroit News called “a lively comic adventure,” Clerks dleviers with wholesale hilarity. Its one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys whose razor-sharp wit and on-the-job antics give a whole new meaning to customer service. Even while braving a nonstop parade of unpredictable shoppers, the clerks manage to play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home, and straighten out their offbeat love lifes. The boss is nowhere in sight, so you can bet anything can – and will – happen when these guys are left to run the store.

Though the acting isn’t grade A, the writing is. The humor and filming are off-beat enough that Clerks is very different… and, at the end of the day, that’s a great thing.Read full review...

Work Sucks

I used to work in a video store and from what my district manager told me. This movie is the most STOLEN movie by employees. Now if that doesn't give you a good enough reason to watch it what does. Kevin Smith's movies are unique in a way because the dialogue in them is that which normal people speak. I recall back on a time in 10th grade when my teacher was talking about Dawson's Creek and he made the comment that no teenagers talk that way. Then you have a Kevin Smith movie where people are crude and straight to the point. Who doesn't know a character like Jay who swears every other word and only talks about sex and drugs.
Now as for Clerks this movie is great on so many levels. It follows the day adventure of Dante Hicks and his so called day off. This movie has the employees of the quick stop closing the store and playing roller hockey on the rough to knocking dead people out of caskets. Now this movie may not be award winning but it is real. As with all Kevin Smith movies it is really about relationships. In short one of my personal top 10 movies. Snoochies!!!Read full review...

12 years ago in small town far, far away

I f any one has been living under a rock for the last twelve years should watch this movie. This a social moan of the why bother generation that anyone who has had a minimum wage job can identify with. Kevin Smith's first(some say seminal)
film about the mundane life of a convenience store clerk serves as a rally cry to all who just don't really care about the regular life of sleep work eat and sleep. A must have for anyone who is a kevin smith fan, or just a film fan in general. I'm not saying that it is genius, but it's honest, and that is what lacking mainstream hollywood cinema.Read full review...

Clerks Part One is the SHIZZLER

Before I get ahead of myself, Jay and Silent Bob cement themselves into history in this film, paving the way for such other Canadian act as "The Trailer Park Boys". This film is a genius work of art and you will laugh. You will feel pain for those independently contracted "Death Star" employees who were unknowingly slaughtered by "Luke Skywalker". This film is a comedy and it's shot in black and white to piss off the big movie companies. Behold this film. Embrace it. Canada and America and Libya and Iran and EVERYWHERE, even in Jasmine Revolution torn China, we all know how to laugh and we all should take the time to do so. This film greases the tracks of laughter for a freight train of fun.Read full review...

Cult Classic

Classic movie that does not disappoint

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$27,000 is not much these days but it did make this.

when this movie came out I was finishing college. This movie highlighted the lifestyle and more importantly the mindset of unimpressed youth. It is a movie that is of a time and a place. To understand early nineties in America one should include this movie. The movie follows Dante and Randall in a day as convenience store clerks. The absurdity of the customers, the bosses, their jobs their lives and the whole wide world elicits rantings and ravings of excellent humor. If you are curious of the late 20th century and maybe annoyed with fellow humans this might be a great movie for you.
I am still impressed by the movie 14 years later.Read full review...

Greatly entertaining

Couldn't wait to get my hands on this one!

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The Original Clerks Movie

This movie was a gift for my 18 year old. My husband and I have watched it numerous times and roll on the floor laughing EVERY time. Very funny, no brainer, movie. Not really appropriate for young children, but great laughs for anyone 18 or over. No nudity, serious language and a lot of weed references.The story and plot are not very important here. It's just a time to put your brain to rest and laugh at juvinile, nonsensicle, hilarious antics.Read full review...

One of my favorite movies

This is one of those "love it" or "hate it" movies. If crude humor offends you, then this movie is not for your. But if not, you may find this movie to be very funny. "Clerks" is proof that you don't need to spend a lot of money to make a good film. Just like in "Clerks II", The interesting and unusual subject matter of the dialog between the characters is what makes this movie so great in my opinion. I don't buy a lot of movies, but I definitely found a place for this one on my DVD rack.Read full review...