Clerks - 10th Anniversary Edition (3 Disc Special Edition Box Set) [DVD]

We see a day in the life of downtrodden slacker Dante (Brian O'Halloran) who gets called into work in his convenience store in Anywheresville, New Jersey at dawn on his day off. What follows is the weirdest day in the history of low-end retail. No spoilers, but Dante is harassed both physically and mentally by his boss, his boss's wife, customers, friends, colleagues, sales reps, corpses, lovers, ex-lovers, ex-lovers of his ex-lovers and the two local drug dealers. He lurches back and forth between earth-shattering revelations and bizarre crises until someone from the past turns up and he makes his worst decision yet. The earlier events of the day are as nothing compared to what fate has in "store"..

Many of the sublime setups revolve around his best friend Randall (a seminal performance by Jeff Anderson) a video store operative who makes Dante look like a Lexus Dealer, and who is the source of Dante's chagrin on more than one occasion. The film also introduces Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes, Smith's muse, and Smith himself) as the local substance wholesalers with wisdom beyond compare when Jay is not abusing the local community.

The script has just as many quotable lines as Withnail and I - grotesque, cringeworthy, profane in the extreme and very, very funny. Kevin Smith would never reach the same heights again, getting closest with Dogma, although all his films are watchable. Clerks does not appear on TV very often in the UK, and has not been available on R2 DVD before, so if you've only seen his more common recent work this film will put it those films in context. See how Jay and Silent Bob started out, and see all the characters that are referenced in "Mallrats", "Chasing Amy", "Dogma", and "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back".

Just remember - NEVER walk into your local video shop and try and rent 'Happy Scrappy Hero Pup'...

Clerks are about two guys, Dante and Randal. Dante is the main character, who is having the worst day of his life. The day never goes right for him, for starters he isn’t meant to be at work, on top of that there are constant bickers with his girlfriend and not to mention his video store sidekick Randal. Whereas Dante is dislikeable and at times annoying Randal is the comic relief. A genius character, who doesn’t give a damn about his work. The two characters work off each other brilliantly, the picture and direction may not be great but the script is genius, extremely funny and witty, which makes it one of the funniest movies of all time. Kevin Smith rocks!

However the main highlight of the films isn’t the main characters, they are the side characters. Jay and silent Bob are perhaps the best movie characters of the last ten years, who themselves have created an empire and a cult status beyond belief. There are also characters such as (without trying to spoil anything) the antismoking mob leader, the guy on the quest to find the perfect egg and of course the old man wanting the employee only magazines. This is defiantly the perfect movie; please do not be put of by the black and white footage, because it is a modern film and one of the finest comedies ever.

The DVD is packed to the bone, the shorts are hilarious and brilliant, and the original cut of the movie is amazing to watch if you’re a fan of the movie, it also includes a brand new ending which changes the film completely. The Q and A is extremely funny and very insightful to the film. I am so glad we got this edition In the UK; I don’t think there could be a better way to compliment the film. Please buy it, its genius