Just finished Clerks 3 (spoilers welcome, but none really in the OP)

So I never knew this movie existed until a few days ago when I saw it on one of the movie channels. So I set it to record the next day and watched it last night and tonight.

It seems like it wouldn’t be that good, but it’s actually pretty damn good. I found myself really liking it a lot. In a weird way, it feels partially lazy since the majority of the movie is just callbacks to the original movie. But it makes sense within the story (since it’s for Randal’s movie). But it’s shot in a very similar style to the original so it has sort of the same feel to it. And while it seems like it would be sort of lame, it just sort of works. And the callbacks were actually great, and seeing all the same actors was pretty cool.

It’s not overly funny but I definitely chuckled throughout. And it’s actually a pretty sweet (emotion-wise) and endearing movie. The ending surprised me a little bit, but it makes sense why they did what they did.

And stay for the second half of the credits. Kevin Smith sort of rants about the impetus for the original Clerks. As annoying as KS is sometimes, it’s actually cool to hear him talking about it.

The worst part (aside from the Silent Bob character overacting, but I guess that’s the character) was that it tried a little too hard at times. But all in all those parts weren’t too bad or too frequent. And for the most part, it hits. And the nostalgia his very hard. If you liked either of the Clerks movies, but especially the original, you should give it a shot….I suspect you’ll like it a lot.