- There’s a few stragglers in the Clerks review department (and a few websites that waited until the show actually aired to do their reviews, which is fine), so we thought we’d give you the chance to read them, good or bad, for posterity’s sake. We’ve also included another very well-written, impressive article from the folks at CNN.COM, who always seem to put together some really nice pieces of journalism. Here ya go:
CNN.COM – Article – Tackling the Mouse House: ‘Clerks’ creator brings animation to small screen on ABC
Playboy.Com – Article, Positive
Mutant Reviewers From Hell – Review, Positive
Here’s one from US Weekly that gives away a few minor spoilers about the celebs that appear during the pilot episode (which you’ll see aired 5th if we get that far):
Jery Seinfield usually jumps at the chance to do comedy–except when the joke’s on him. The comic recently turned down a cameo as himself in diector Kevin Smith’s new animated series, Clerks, based on his 1994 movie about a suberban convenience store. Smith tells Hot Stuff. In a sketch about celebrity encounters, Seinfeld (whose voice was eventually done by Hollywood Squares regular Gilbert Gottfried) walks into the store, starts doing one of his “Did you ever wonder?†routines and gets rudely interrupted by the show’s main characters, Dante and Randal. Similar ribbing didn’t intimidate Gwyneth Paltrow, who plays herself pleading to rent a video after Randal tells her they have no record of her. “But I have a membership–Paltrow, Gwyneth,†the Cadamy Award-winning actress says in the sketch. Others who take hits are Matt Daman, who gets a drink tosses at thim and is nearly run over by a car, and Ben Affleck, who gets ridiculed in the credits for starring in the flop Reindeer Games.
Finally, we just have the text for this positive review from the Tribune:
“Clerks†(8:30 p.m., WLS-Ch. 7) is spun off of the 1994 independent movie that brought director Kevin Smith to fame. Smith, who would go on to make movies including “Chasing Amy†and the recent “Dogma,†is involved here, as well; in fact, he showed he has not lost that indie spirit by protesting ABC’s decision to delay the launch of his show until after the official TV season wasover.
All six episodes will air this summer and, from the curt way ABC explains that, bet that there will be only six episodes. It’s too bad because this has some of the same slacker charm as the movie, albeit with cleaner language.
There’s a bit too much humor of the style that has one guy say “it’s as easy as driving a car,†followed by a crash. But the needler-and-needlee relationship between the lead clerks grows on you, and there are also some clever pop-culture parodies, including an episode that lampoons the movie “Outbreak†and the nimble Japanimation riff in Wednesday’s debut.
At least, I suspect that it is in the debut. Here’s the actual sentence from the ABC news release: “The first episode on the tape, episode four, is scheduled to air as the series premiere.†It takes someone above clerk level, someone like a manager or even an owner, to figure out that kind of language.
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