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Sep 13, 2022 · 63% Tomatometer 126 Reviews 93% Audience Score 250+ Verified Ratings After suffering a massive heart attack, Randal enlists friends and fellow clerks Dante, Elias, Jay and Silent Bob to help...
Sep 13, 2022 · “Clerks III” is a movie about the main characters of “Clerks” making a movie called “Inconvenience,” virtually remaking “Clerks” for us shot by shot. Randal suffers a heart attack (a “widow maker” with 80% chance of not winning, as Smith experienced himself) and it leads to an epiphany.
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By Matt Donato
Updated: Sep 11, 2022 1:57 pm
Posted: Sep 8, 2022 2:00 pm
Clerks III hits theaters on Sept. 13, 2022.
Clerks III is the product of an ego-less filmmaker with nothing to lose. While Jay and Silent Bob Reboot was technically Kevin Smith's first feature after miraculously surviving a "widowmaker" cardiac arrest, Clerks III marks Smith's creative reckoning with the life-altering event. Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is an off-color war against reboot culture by an indie gunslinger — Clerks III is the meditative culmination of a father, husband, and geekdom advocate who came face-to-face with his mortality. Smith's abundant nerd-culture metaphors synchronize with a gracious wholesomeness that's unexpected in a franchise stuffed with juvenility from corpse boners to fast food donkey shows. Come for the crudeness; stay for the reflective existential warmth like a Death Star pointed at our emotions.
Smith reopens Quick Stop Groceries once more to find Randal (Jeff Anderson) and Dante (Brian O'Halloran) still behind the register, bickering about Star Wars. Nothing has changed, except for Father Time's harshness — Smith recreates exact scenes from Clerks with his more aged cast for added contrast. Randal starts ripping into Jesus freak Elias (Trevor Fehrman) like every day after Clerks II, except this time he's interrupted by an unexpected force — what's classified a "widowmaker" heart attack. You know, the exact condition Smith himself conquered? With a new outlook on life, Randal decides his second chance shouldn't be wasted and enlists Dante to help him produce an autobiographical movie based on their exploits as convenience store clerks.
IGN's Tom Jorgensen gave Jay and Silent Bob Reboot a 7/10, writing, "Though its meta-heavy plot gets tiresome after a while, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is a successful return to form for Kevin Smith. Though it’s a bit rough around the edges, all involved clearly came to have fun and that infectious energy is palpable for the entire runtime." Read the full review here.
Sound familiar? It should. Randal essentially remakes Clerks in the most meta of career retrospectives almost three decades after Smith's defiant Sundance origin story.
Clerks III delivers all the inappropriate cuss-cluttered humor and pot smoke that is Kevin Smith's trademark but evolves his sentimentality beyond bong-rip wisdom. The third Clerks installment is a moving ode to working-class nobodies that amplifies Smith's touchstone sincerity above Randal's not-so-passive aggression or Jay's lit-for-days attitude...
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Sep 13, 2022 · It’s rated R. Grappling with middle age, “Clerks III” turns out to be unexpectedly sentimental and nostalgic, reflecting that writer-director-editor-co-star Kevin Smith inherently recognizes ...
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Sep 8, 2022 · Life and art commingle in Smith's third 'Clerks' film, inspired by the heart attack that nearly killed the writer-director in 2018.
