They're not there to shop. They're not there to work. They're just there.
Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall. Eventually, they decide to try and win back their significant others and take care of their respective nemeses.
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Comic, unpretentious, warm and cool.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
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“Is Jason Lee the best thing in Mallrats?”
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“Is Mallrats better than Dogma?”
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- Filipe Manuel Netoon TMDB · Dec 20234/10
**A comedy full of absurd jokes, which could work better if they weren't so aimed at niche audiences that most people don't really belong to.** From the same hand that gave us “Clerks” (director and screenwriter Kevin Smith) came this bizarre comedy, centered on two teenagers who have just lost their girlfriends. It is already known that we are going to see a film that is, to say the least, unorthodox and full of light-hearted jokes, allusions to pop culture and elements that would be easy to identify for the youth of the time. Maybe that's why the humor hardly works clearly: I could still understand most of the jokes minimally but, for example, I don't know anything about comics and all the jokes about that are unintelligible to me. I believe the same thing happens to a lot of people: we are not part of the target audience and the feeling is that of a somewhat dated, niche film that has not aged very well. The script has its moments: there are several conflicting plots, some of which (the boy obsessed with a painting where everyone sees a sailboat, for example) are very stupid and seem out of context. In fact, there seems to be no possible context for them! The same cannot be said
Read the whole review on TMDB - JPV852on TMDB · Nov 20208/10
Only the second time seeing this (last was probably in the early 2000s on DVD) and thought it was okay but guess like others, this has grown on me. Laughed throughout even when the dialogue wasn't the greatest, but I have an appreciation for sarcasm so I gravitated towards Jason Lee's character the most. Not quite sure it's on the level of Clerks or Chasing Amy (have to re-visit those) but a solid comedy. **3.75/5**
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Cast
- Jason LeeBrodie
- Jeremy LondonT.S. Quint
- Shannen DohertyRene
- Claire ForlaniBrandi
- Ben AffleckShannon
- Joey Lauren AdamsGwen
- Renée HumphreyTricia
- Kevin SmithSilent Bob
- Jason MewesJay
- Ethan SupleeWillam
Crew
- Kevin SmithDirector
- Kevin SmithWriter
- David KleinDirector of Photography
- Ira NewbornOriginal Music Composer
- Paul DixonEditor
- Sean DanielProducer
- Scott MosierProducer
- James JacksProducer
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Pairings
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Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Both comic, unpretentious, cool.
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Mort the Chicken 200073% alikeGame · Both unpretentious, comic, resolved.
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