Tuesday 3 February 2009

Mallrats. ( Contains spoilers. )

All is typed by myself no copy and paste. And Below is a trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eVo7aBze1w

Mallrats is written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also plays as Silent Bob in Chasing Amy amongst other movies.

The basic story is about two guys called Brody and TS. Brody gets dumped because of his habits of comic book reading and playing Sega. The stereotypical geek in the story which i thought was very well written out with his attitude towards women and his hobbies. TS is the one who is in love with Brandi and wants to marry her but she can't because of her over possesive father.
It has a real american feel to it you could say. With the shopping mall and the way it is all panned out with him living in the basement.

Storyline : I think the story was a basic one but with some deepness to the characters you could say. They did work on the Brodie character more than the TS one i'd say, because you find out more about him than any of the others. This of course doesn't really matter about Jay and Silent Bob because they are in all of these films anyway. The ending of the film was obvious, you could tell what would happen to Shannon when Brodie asks for the video to be displayed. But overall i'd say the story was pretty well thought out, not many people would say that but i think it was. There was a couple of things i didn't like about it. Such as the slapstick that was shown with Jay and Silent Bob with the silly noises and the actions of them when Bob had his batman gun. I thought that it didn't need to be done, regardless still funny.

There aren't really any obvious errors that i noticed, the camera work was done okay and i didn't see any microphones or nothing like that so i'm quite impressed. Plus it is one of Kevin Smith's earlier films back in 1995, so i think that would have been just after Clerks.
I don't know how popular the film was, i personally didn't know what it was when i bought it back in Tescos about 2 years ago. I just reconized Jay and Silent Bob on the front of the case. Put it this way, £3.00 very well spent.

So overall, i'd give it 8/10. I've seen it 3-4 times and it's still good now.

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