Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

classicsoncall As raunchy and decadent that "Clerks" was coming out the prior year, at least I thought it was pretty funny. Coming from the same creative mind and direction of Kevin Smith, I expected "Mallrats" to be on a par but it failed to deliver. There were some humorous moments of course, and unless I'm mistaken, some of the language might have been toned down from the earlier flick, but there didn't seem to be enough to redeem this picture as one to recommend as a follow up to "Clerks". My understanding is that chronologically, this picture occurs the day before the events in "Clerks", but that's neither here nor there and of no consequence to my mind. The picture's most salient moment is when Stan Lee has his heart to heart chat with Brodie (Jason Lee), but after that it's pretty much down hill. The game show segment in particular was just terrible, it looked like it belonged in an entirely different picture. Still, it was cool to see Jay and Silent Bob once again, and Jason Lee has the right looks and temperament for the kind of character he portrayed. But if faced with a decision to make, you probably should just watch "Clerks" again.

seanjenson Mallrats was early in Kevin Smith's career and you can see that the less budget Smith has to play with the better the film is. Set entirely in a mall this film has great characters, a free flowing screenplay filled with snappy dialogues and great direction by Smith. Everyone of Kevin Smith's entourage till then is there in some spades and there are some connections and gags that only a person well versed in Kevin Smith's Universe would understand. This is a great watch.

jellopuke After having not watched this since the 90's, I gave it another shot recently. My opinion of Kevin Smith has totally flip flopped since those days in that now I despise him. All of the terrible trends of his movies are here including awful dialogue (in parts), awful acting (in parts), misplaced attempts at pathos, aimlessness, over-reliance on his personal obsessions, etc. But colour me surprised to say that some of this movie still works. Jason Lee specifically. Jeremy London and Claire Forlani are awful, but you can blame the dialogue there. Despite the hackneyed plot, Jason Lee holds this together and there are a few solid laughs scattered throughout. Because he wasn't trying to go all sentimental (for the most part) this movie holds up better. Now on to Chasing Amy.

Michael_Elliott Mallrats (1995) *** (out of 4) After being dumped by their girlfriends, TS (Jeremy London) and Brodie (Jason Lee) head to the local mall to drown their sorrows but soon get caught up in trying to get their women back with a little help from their mallrat friends.With the success of CLERKS everyone was waiting to see what writer-director Kevin Smith would come back with. MALLRATS would turn out to be a critical and financial failure but I think people really missed the point of the film. I still remember being the only person in my screening back in 1995 to be laughing their head off. It seems everyone else wasn't sure what they were getting but to me this film has always been a good satire.I think Smith's screenplay is quite goofy at times but that doesn't mean it's not good. In fact I think the script has been hated on for no good reason because it contains pretty much what one would expect from a screenplay by Smith. There's the comic book banter. There's the STAR WARS and JAWS jokes. Of course the humor is going to be raunchy but who cares as long as it's funny? There are many hilarious moments here with the comic back and forth between the characters as well as the game show finale, which contains plenty of great laughs.Another thing that really helps the film is its cast. Lee clearly and easily steals the film as Brodie, the slacker sidekick who always has something smart to say. Both London and Shannen Doherty are good in their roles and we've got several Smith regulars including Smith himself, Jason Mewes and Ben Affleck. Michael Rooker is also fun in his supporting bit as is Stan Lee and Priscilla Barnes.MALLRATS will never be considered a classic but I think it does a very good job at delivering laughs as well as shining a light on what it was like to be at the mall back in the 90s.