CLERKS III (2022) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Kevin Smith
Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes,
Kevin Smith, Trevor Fehrman, Austin Zajur,
Amy Sedaris, Rosario Dawson, Fred Armison,
Danny Trejo, Kate Micucci, Ben Affleck
Kevin Smith closes out his "Clerks" trilogy with working-class heroes Dante and Randal now the owners of the Quick Stop store where their adventures began back in 1994. They're still selling groceries and cigarettes, and playing hockey with the gang up on the roof, but they're approaching 50 now and mortality is creeping up on them. Also hanging around (of course) are Jay and Silent Bob, who have moved into Randal's old video store, which is now (of course) a pot shop. Other familiar (but older) faces from the previous Clerks movies show up, too. For anybody who's a fan of what Smith does, a good time is pretty much guaranteed, the emotional center, as always, being Jeff Anderson's Randal, a misanthropic wiseguy who hides his sensitivity behind a wall of cynicism, which is kind of what the Clerks movies are all about: laughter in the face of a world you know is going to screw you, and somewhere underneath it all, a heart.
