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The episodes feature store clerks Dante and Randal and their ongoing adventures among the shelves of your local corner store. Never far from the epicenter of these adventures are the irreverent Jay and Silent Bob. Whether it's getting trapped in the walk-in cooler, attending their high school reunion, or fighting rival Leonardo Leonardo (who wants to dominate the local Quick Mart market), Clerks spoofs TV and movies with mocking pop-culture jokes and cameos by a number of celebrities. Ultimately, though, Clerks: The Animated Series suffers at the hands of network censors, lacking the obnoxious punch that made Clerks the film so offbeat and amusing.
Smith doesn't disappoint, however, with the inclusion of a number of special features on the DVD set, most notably the ever-insightful director's commentary with guests Jason Mewes (Jay), Brian O'Halloran (Dante), and Jeff Anderson (Randal). So while the series itself may be ill-fated, featurette on the making of the animated series--including storyboards and information on character development and the comic book influence on the drawing style--make this a robust offering for Kevin Smith completists. --Adam Medros
| ACTORS: | Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Steve Loter, Chris Bailey |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 31 May, 2000 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Miramax |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Animated, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Television |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 786936145335 |
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Customer Reviews of Clerks - The Animated Series Uncensored
"The Cartoon for people who watch cartoons." Kevin Smith said it in the commentary track for one of the episodes, and a more accurate assesment of 'Clerks the Animated Series' would be hard to find. I saw both of the origianlly aired episodes, and was sorely dissapointed when the show was cancelled. To me this DVD collection is a Godsend, not only all of the episodes(in order!), intros to each episode with Jay and Silent Bob(I think everyone agrees the intro to episode two is the funniest of the six), background info on character creation and story development, but best of all(apart from the cartoons themselves) Kevin Smith and crew doing what they do best: Audio Commentary! Anyone who's bought Kevin's DVDs(or laser discs) will know what a treat his commentaries are. Sometimes outshining the movie they're commenting on. Definatley worth the price of addmission on its own. Well about the actual episodes themselves: 1) Somewhat typical first episode fare, establishes the main characters of Dante, Randal, Jay and Silent Bob, and Leonardo Leonardo, as well as the adversarial relation ship between the Clerks and Leonardo Leonardo. It also makes it quite clear that this is NOT the Clerks movie in animated form, but an honest to goodness effort at a new cartoon. 2) Hillarious take on all of the sitcoms that ever used the 'locked in the freezer' premise, and 'flashback to use old clips to fill time' dodge of cartoons as well as sitcoms, just made all the funier by the fact they only had one episode to 'flashback' to.
3) two words: James Woods. 4) An amalgamation of courtroom drama and Anime. "Who is driving?" "Oh no! Bear is driving! How can that be?!" 5) One of the strongest episodes story wise combines 'The Bad News Bears' with 'Temple of Doom' and a little 'Last Starfighter' thrown in for good measure. Meeting Randal's old girlfriends at his ten year highschool reunion has got to be one of the funniest moments in the cartoon. Both Randal and Dante's characters really begin to develop, and move beyond their movie counterparts. 6) Going 'OldSchool Clerks' this episode was created to answer the unavoidable backlash Kevin and company knew would come from die-hard Clerks fans. The main part of the episode deals with the Clerks staying inside the store, as incredibly exciting things that we never see, but only hear about, are occuring outside. Very funny, with refernces to 'THe MaTRiX' and Bug's Bunny Cartoons.
With voices by the original Clerks stars, and an interesting list of bigger names, such as the afore mentioned James Woods, Alec Baldwin(as Leonardo Leonardo) and Gweneth Paltrow, the vocal talent really adds to the show. The style of the animation really fits as well, psuedo comic bookish but not saturday morning stiff.
Excelent all the way around, and made for multiple viewings, a lot slips by the first time. And as you get to know the characters like Kevin Smith does, more of their motivations become clear. Buy it, Watch it, Love it!
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Everyone else has written reviews explaining what it is, so I won't. Just scroll down to find out. So if you like what they say, buy it. It is only $10 at Best Buy, and goes great with Clerks the movie.
Why did ABC have to pick this show up?
When I first heard Clerks was a cartoon, I had come home and my brother told me that he bought the DVD set. I was supprised to find out Clerks was ever a TV show. I blaim this on ABC. I assume many people did not hear of Clerks the Aminated Series prior to its realse on DVD. I find the show to be almost as good as the movie. It could have been better, had ABC not put restriciotns on it (see comentary of episodes.) The show would be much better off on HBO, or even UPN (once again, see comentary.) This just goes to proves once again that Kevin Smith is a comedic genious. All of movies are classics (this does not include Jersy Girl, I have not seen it yet.) Whether it is the second episode being a flash back episode, or Dante and Randle not leaving the store no matter what exiting things are happening out side the store, every episode is great. It is a shame most of the shows adiance did not know it existed till it came out on dvd and only 6 episodes were made. I also heard that comedy central was supposed to pick up the episodes around the turn of the year. I even think i saw an episode on CC. What happened to that?