Clerks III

Clerks III

After narrowly surviving a massive heart attack, Randal enlists his old friend Dante to help him make a movie immortalizing their youthful days at the little convenience store that started it all.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Stars: Jeff Anderson, Brian O'Halloran, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Rosario Dawson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Trevor Fehrman, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Austin Zajur, Scott Schiaffo, Justin Long, Fred Armisen, Ben Affleck, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Harley Quinn Smith, Ming Chen, Walt Flanagan, Bryan Johnson, Mike Zapcic, Jason szalma, Lisa hampton, AJ Wilkerson, Bob Leszczak, Robert Hawk, Ernest O'Donnell, Dave Ferrier, Brian Quinn, Ralph Garman, Melissa Benoist, Danny Trejo, Joe Gatto, James Murray, Bobby Moynihan, Grace Smith, Sal Vulcano, Ethan Suplee, Donnell Rawlings, Kate Micucci, Marc Bernardin, Freddie Prinze Jr., Anthony Michael Hall, Amy Sedaris, Chris Wood, Scott Mosier, Jake Richardson, Michelle Buteau, Marc Bernardin, AnnaMarie Brown, Yassir Lester
  • Director: Kevin Smith
 Comments
  • mraxster - 13 June 2024
    Honest and from the heart
    It may not be a great work of cinematography or even particularly good movie, but if beauty will save the world this is a glimmer of that beauty.

    I watched most of Kevin's movies and even when they are superficially banal, they tell an unglamorous, unpretentious, yet profound stories of human experience. Jay and Silent Bob, like Shakespeare's wise fools, are there to tell the truth as they see it through the facade of jesters.

    Clerks III is a warm, heartfelt and pure closure for a South Park like gang of characters and to a black and white movie I encountered randomly but which will resonate with juvenile me for the rest of my days... <3.
  • GregTheStopSign95 - 21 November 2023
    Kevin Smith's best work yet?
    Don't get me wrong, I've seen - and loved - almost every movie Kevin Smith has made. With the exception of Cop Out, Jersey Girl, the animated Jay & Silent Bob movie, and KillRoy Was Here. I've seen them all and enjoyed them all, FAULTS and all. Especially Red State and Tusk. THIS, though, would have to be my favourite.

    Not only does Clerks III give us a relatively satisfying ending to the Clerks saga, and perhaps the View Askewniverse (henceforth: VA) unless we believe the rumours of a Mallrats sequel, but it also gives us a good insight into what may well have been the process behind Smith making Clerks in the first place, as well as a VERY condensed insight into his life's journey. And it does all this while also bringing back a handful of cast members from previous VA movies, mostly from the first Clerks, but including Ben Affleck & Ethan Suplee, Smith's wife and daughter, Mewes' wife and daughter, and a bunch of cameos from the likes of Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr, and Fred Armisen. Fanservice? Sure, but understandable since Smith loves to work with his friends.

    The movie itself is mostly great as well, being basically a re-telling of the first Clerks movie but with all the narrative growth from the previous VA entries, and more focused on the behind-the-camera side of things.

    A word of warning, though...I was bawling at the end, so if you're someone who gets easily invested in movies, and/or have come to somewhat love these characters, have a box of tissues on hand. And not for the donkey show.