Mallrats (1995)
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Critic Consensus: Mallrats colorfully expands the View Askewniverse, even if its snootchie has lost a few of the bootchies boasted by its beloved predecessor.
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Cast
as Rene
as T.S. Quint
as Brodie
as Brandi Svenning
as Svenning
as Ivannah
as Tricia
as Silent Bob
as Shannon
as Gwen
as Jay
as William
as Himself
as Roddy
as Security Guard
as Arresting Cop
as Cop
as Pull Toy Kid
as TV Executive No. 1
as TV Executive No. 2
as Fan at Comic Store
as Guy Contestant No. 1
as Guy Contestant No. 2
as Girl with Easter Bunny
as Game Show Host
as Employee at Comic Store
as Fan at Comic Store
as Kid at Poster Kiosk
as Child at Kiosk No. 1
as Child at Kiosk No. 2
as Saleslady at Lingerie Store
as Gill
as Passerby in Park Lot
as La Fours
as Teacher
as Team La Fours Member
as Team La Fours Member
as Team La Fours Member
as Team La Fours Member
as Team La Fours Member
as Team La Fours Member
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Critic Reviews for Mallrats
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Thin yet enticing.
How can a reviewer write about a movie that makes Dumb and Dumber seem like a Merchant-Ivory production?
Mallrats mixes clever bits and an appealing quirkiness (which goes a long way) with gross-out practical jokes, needless repetition and obvious padding, since it has no real plot.
This sparky if flawed effort deserves re-evaluation.
If the Sundance Institute or the AFI ever offers a course advising directors of successful first films what to avoid the second time around, Mallrats could be at the heart of the curriculum.
Smith has slicked up his follow-up vision of Slackerville USA, but the outcome is nowhere near as brash and original.
Audience Reviews for Mallrats
Not only poorly directed and with an awful score, but most of the gags are painfully unfunny and most of the characters are painfully annoying in a stupid story that can't find any compelling reason to exist and is only a misfire that plods along with no sense of structure.
Super Reviewer
17 years ago I was around 10 years old, magic eyes were in every daily newspaper comics section, vhs tapes were all we knew, the Sega Genesis was the racy video game machine, and punk rock was beginning its heyday. There was barely an internet and there was no e-commerce, nor were there shopping centers like we have now; there were only malls. Malls with arcades, pet stores and comic book stores. Mallrats, from 1995, captures this moment in time. This is a very stupid movie, but Kevin Smith does to "stupid comedy" what Quintin Tarantino does to "violence" -- adds an entertaining, signature style and atmosphere (and off-plot dialogue of random observations). They are both confident in their unorthodox approaches, doing things no other filmmakers have the guts to try or sense to pull off (Did I really just do a magic eye image? ..Yes, and that was no sailboat!). This movie knows what it is, bad acting included, and it doesn't care if I don't like it - it was only made for those that would. If I had seen this as an adult 17 years ago, I likely would have thought it banal and given it 2 stars. But seeing it now, well I guess I'm one of the lucky ones!
Super Reviewer
Though this a brainless, disappointing follow-up to Clerks, it's still enjoyable just to enter back into the world of Kevin Smith.
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Mallrats Quotes
| Tricia: | When are men going to learn that women want romance, not Mr. Toad's Wild Ride? |
| Brodie: | Be fair, all right? Everyone wants Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. |
| Brodie: | I love the smell of commerce in the morning. |
| T.S. Quint: | I'd prefer ritual suicide. |
| Brodie: | Breakfasts come and go, Rene. Now Hartford? The Whale? They only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime. |
| Brodie: | Breakfasts come and go, Rene, but Hartford, 'the Whale,' they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime. |