It's the weakest of the trilogy, but still worth watching. As Imp's reviews noted, it really plays up the friendship, family and emotional aspects, being both sad and happy.
It's loaded with humor, but a lot of it falls flat (imo) as it's just repeats of what we've seen in Clerks I, II and to a degree the Jay and Silent Bob films, cept now it's middle aged men doing those same jokes.
Still a good wrap up for a trilogy, the ending pulls at the heartstrings.
Because of my unrelenting work schedule and overall anxiousness, I broke down and read the synopsis for Clerks III on Wikipedia and my suspicions were confirmed.
What a lazy f*cking cop out, cash grab, pile of shit this movie is.
Kevin Smith isn’t even a f*cking shadow of his former greatness from the 90s. Smith made Clerks, arguably one of the funniest and most important movies ever made, and now he’s devolved into a literal walking advertisement who sports a hockey jersey he has made for whatever he’s plugging, retracts his scathingly harsh, but honest, review of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice in a matter of days because the check he was offered to praise said dog shit film was fat, and is still clinging to the Silent Bob persona that should have been retired over 20 years ago in “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back”, but will inevitably find its way into, at least, one more film be it live action or animated.
He’s done after this entry. Anything else is blindly reaching in the dark.
What a f*cking shame.
The lovely ending of Clerks II is sullied all because of Smith wanting to milk the story beyond necessity.
Never really understood the reverence Clerks gets held in. Preferred some of Smith's other stuff. Chasing Amy, Dogma and Red State. But I wouldn't consider any of them brilliant or seminal the way people consider Clerks.
Smith also just seems like a dick. Like there's a #MeToo file on him a foot thick.
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