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Let's be realistic.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

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.

A fantastic, albeit reasonably dated, 90s comedy typical of one of the funniest directors on the planet - Kevin Smith. The laughs are common and consistent and not a single cast member failed to make me laugh at some point. Particular standout cast members were director and writer Kevin Smith as well as Jason Mewes, reprising their roles as Jay and Silent Bob as featured in other Kevin Smith comedies including clerks. The script is fantastic and it is well deserving of it's high 9 / 10 rating from me as it just provided a good time - which is what a movie should do as not every film needs to provide multiple levels. This is a perfect example of an extremely funny film that never takes itself too seriously.

Mallrats is the second major film directed and written by Kevin Smith. Mallrats at the time was criticized as one of his worst films. The result is generally the same (gross-out gags, silly jokes, intelligent- speaking college-age teens who talk about nothing but modern culture (as in "entertainment"), a constant stream of profanity and vulgarity)Mallrats has a very think yet simple plot. Has Brodie (Jason Lee), and his friend T.S. (Jeremy London) being broken up by their respective girlfriends, Brandi (Claire Forlani) and Rene (Shannen Doherty). So they decide to hang out at the mall. They eventually end up meeting characters Jay and Silent Bob, as well as their ex-girlfriends. The film is predictable as in it is ultimately tat they will win back their girlfriends, but the quest is how they do it, and their obstacles along the way. In which, they end up on a game show. The finale is somewhat dis interesting, although it provides for entertainment.Mallrats provides some entertainment, but in general of rewatching the film, I have found many of the jokes and gags to be cheesy, outdated, and general not funny. === As a rewatch 07/05/18' Mallrats remain quite a forgettable and unfunny comedy. There are some pieces of entertainment but as a whole, the film feels very off, awkward and outdated. The lead characters are both quite unlikable and selfish and the comedy just in't funny in the slightest.

After seeing this movie all I can really say is that Kevin Smith has a really weird sense of humour. The humour of Clerks is still here in Mallrats, but the language has been toned down a bit so that the movie receives only an MA rating instead of the R rating that Clerks received.Mallrats is similar to Clerks in that it deals with relationships. There are numerous similarities, namely that the good things are the ones that we tend to let go of. Jay and Silent Bob are here and play a much more active role, and the weird philosophical discussions, such as how Lois Lane cannot have Superman's babies because Kryptonite babies would probably kill her, are also here. One major difference though is that Mallrats is a much more expensive film and it shows. Mallrats is in colour, is set in a Mall, and has a lot of extras. Kevin Smith winds the entire movie up with a big dating game, and even has a comic book writer make a cameo appearance (which is not surprising considering this guy was probably Smith's hero).Mallrats seems to be like the Bill and Ted's movies in that way that it ends with a big extravaganza in front of a huge audience. There are antagonists in this movie as well. Le Four the security guard, and the father of an ex-girlfriend who is hosting a dating game in which he is giving away his daughter because the previous contestant died of an embolism while trying to loose weight for the show. It is also interesting that the characters are also similar. We have one loud mouthed guy who seems to have a response for everything, and a humbler guy who is more or less led around by the louder guy. This time though they are both trying to win back their girlfriends while trying to defeat the forces stopping them.Mallrats deals mainly with relationships and why they break up. It is also interesting how the comic book writer says that his worst mistake was giving up his girlfriend for the comic books. It makes us think what is important in our lives, our relationships or our material goods. This guy says that the worst mistake he made was to place material goods over relationships. Even though he had heaps of women in the future, it wasn't worth giving up a genuine relationship for. This is what makes me think because there is only one thing worth giving up a relationship for and that is God. Everybody says that women are not worth it but a true, loving relationship should be far more important than any job, or material goods. A relationship with God is worth more than anything because God wants one with us, and who is it to say no to the most powerful being in the universe. The more I think about material wealth, the more I come to see how pointless it all is.I still wonder if Kevin Smith is a Christian or not because even though he thanks God for making the movie possible, the stuff that we find in the movie is really something that would dishonour God immensely. Things like showing naked breasts and rampant sex in an elevator. Even sex with a fifteen year old girl, though that guy that does it is arrested for it. Personally I think Smith might be quite liberal in his faith, but when it comes down to it, only God knows where we are at.