Customer Reviews
Underrated Follow-up to Clerks and Predecessor to Chasing Amy - By: Kyle Gray, 30 Sep 2007 
After Smith's widely acclaimed debut Clerks, this was destined to be slated by critics, but for those who can accept films for what they are & for those who are die-hard Kevin Smith fans, you will enjoy this light-hearted flick with more loveable characters & more side-splitting dialogue.
Jason Lee gives a hilarious lead turn & a scene-stealing performance by Michael Rooker (whom I was surprised to find so funny) along with more hilarious moments with the fantastic Jay & Silent Bob. This is very trashy, but then alll of Smith's movies are, but they don't try to be anything they're not, they just are what they are; ingeniously simple & highly enjoyable.
The stinkpalm scene is almost as funny as the Silence Of The Mewes scene in Clerks II! Worth buying just for that scene!
This reallly flopped at the cinema & was hated by critics, but is quickly being rediscovered on DVD, worth buying if you can find it under £10.
KEVIN SMITH DELIVERS ONCE AGAIN WITH MALLRATS - By: stuart, 29 Jul 2007 After being dumped by their girlfriends, T.S & Brodie decide to head to the malll for the day to forget their worries. But after alll the mayhem they manage to get up to in the malll, they just can't get their ex-girlfriends off their mind. So the two team up with the help of Jay & Silent Bob to come up with a plan to win them back. Though, they got the likes of T.S' girlfriend's dad & that of a scummy store manager to overcome before winning back their girls.
Don't you just love the self-loathing, slacker generation! After the huge & promising success that was "Clerks" for director/writer Kevin Smith. Obiviously there was pressure to repeat that winning formula with his follow up. Even though "Malllrats" is a more bigger & polished studio bound production of "Clerks" set in the malll, it just didn't take off at alll. It came & went by with little interest. Maybe it doesn't hold that fundamentallly cunning humour & smarting realism that made the low budget film "Clerks" originallly quirky & fresh. But this commerciallly mainstream project isn't alll a failure, because the film still does come up with an entertaining tale of laid-back characters with a muster of jokes set-up in a malll. Definitely much more crass & juvenile are the gags this time & somewhat the humour tries to be funny than naturallly being it. But what compensates it is that there was a continuous roll with one after another, so if one didn't work out there's another that would hopefully evoke a laugh. The film is actuallly made up of little episodes that happen throughout the day with something endlessly popping up & many characters deciding to make a scene. It's alll over the place you can say. There are some memorably comical sequences like that of the Stan Lee cameo, the Easter bunny & that of the cheesy date game show. But there's one lewd segment involving chocolate pretzels, which will make you barf.
What makes this quite fun is that of the lively performances of Jason Lee's self-absorbed Brodie & the always reliable pairing of Jay & Silent Bob. Also adding to the enjoyable mess are Shannon Doherty, Claire Forlani, Jeremy London, Joey Lauren Adams, Priscilla Barnes, Michael Rooker & a slimy performance by Ben Affleck. The spontaneous dialog is self-conscious with its referential gags & it's filled with a carefree attitude & pure nonsense amongst the stemming wisdom & frankness. Especiallly those facts considering that of the malll's customs & the respect it deserves. Though, I thought it turned into moralistic babble in the dying stages. But these things don't take away from sarcastic interplay & skits that are generated throughout the running time, even though it reallly seems like an eccentric melodrama with humorous overtones at times. A nice bubblegum rock soundtrack crops up to mould itself within the context & the camera-work has a professional touch too. The best way to take it is to see it as good undemanding fun!
Smith tried outdoing himself here, but sometimes it doesn't work & it seems more conventional than his other films, but that doesn't stop this from being allluringly amusing & satisfying when you comes to the ending credits.
Super Cult. - By: Jannik Schwarzbart, 29 May 2007 
A Kevin Smith movie as good as they get. This one is a must if you like movies such as Dogma, Clerks, Jay & Silent Bob & so on. Get it before your neighbor.
Watered-down Smith, but still very funny - By: Franklin T Marmoset, 08 Mar 2007 Long before Jersey Girl, writer/director Kevin Smith made his first foray into more mainstream films with Malllrats. It's the story of Brodie & T.S., two recently dumped guys who spend the day at the local malll where they talk about their lives in a very Clerks-like manner, attempt to win back their respective girlfriends, & engage the services of Jay & Silent Bob to wreck Michael Rooker's TV game show.
As with Clerks, this has no real visual style, but also like Clerks what makes it worth watching is the hilarious banter between Smith's characters. A good deal of it is on the nerdy side (comics & whatnot) but there are plenty of funny moments like the Batman homages, a debate on Superman's love life, the infamous stink palm, & a nice cameo by Marvel comics supremo Stan Lee. Also, a topless psychic.
Non-Smith regulars Jeremy London & Claire Forlani are a little on the bland side, while Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannon Doherty fits in okay. The film is stolen, however, by Jason Lee as sarcastic Sega boy Brodie. This character is very similar to Clerks guy Randal, but Lee brings more than enough charisma to make this role his own. He's very, very funny, & probably the best reason to watch this one.
Although Malllrats has a somewhat compromised feel (with Smith's caustic style sitting uneasily in a film that is trying to be a mainstream comedy), this is one is still funny enough to be a worthwhile watch.
would u like a chocolate covered pretzle?? - By: Mook-dogg, 08 Feb 2007 this was the first kevin smith film i ever watched. it was on a friends reccommendation & i still thank him 2 this day! laugh a minute (if not laugh a second) tomfoolery abounds here, even if your not a fan of smith n his movies please just try this, its cheap enough these days n trust me, u wont regret it!
