We just got back from watching Clerks 2. Jenni and I are big fans of the first one so we had to see this one. It was very very good. Definitely not like the first one but it was still great.

As you see in the commercials, it starts out black and white like the first one was and Dante opens up the shutters to find that there's a raging inferno inside. After the fire is put out Randall shows up, late as usual and walks into the smoking husk while Dante is sitting outside with a totally shocked look on his face. His world has been thrown upside down. Randal walks out, realizing work has burned down and sees Dante. He asks Dante if it was terrorists that burned it down then realizes that he left the coffee pot on again.

A year goes by and we see that they've been working at Mooby's flipping burgers and it's Dante's last day. He's engaged to a rich girl and they're going to move to Florida, her dad is going to give Dante a car wash business to run and a free house as a wedding present.

The downside? She doesn't respect him, immasculates him and will be making all the decisions because men can't make them. Also he's in love with his boss.

Jay and Silent Bob have been in rehab for the last 6 months and have gotten themselves clean and have found God, again. Now they only sell the drugs. They don't take them. Kris will REALLY like this film because there is an homage to the serial killer in Silence of the Lambs. Jay begins to reenact the scene where Buffalo Bill is dancing in the skin suit. Prepare for a most shocking scene in regards to this. It's not one that you expect to be coming what so ever.

The answer to the question of whether Randall is gay or not is answered when a very good scene towards the end reveals that he is really not liking Dante leaving him to move to Florida. Dante is his best friend in the whole world and Randall is hurt that he would just piss their friendship away to move to Florida to live a life he thinks he needs to live where he gets married, gets a house and a better job and squeeze himself into a box that's not made for him to fit in.

He makes a speach about how, just because he works as a clerk and is in his 30's, that it's not a bad thing because he's doing what he likes to do. As he puts it, what could be better than working with your best friend in a job where you can berate customers, read magazines and eat free food? What's wrong with that? Yeah, it's not what everyone else does but who cares? He's happy and misses the Quik Stop.

He also professes his completely heterosexual love for Dante and begs for him not to leave. It was a very well done and touching scene. Jeff Anderson, the actor that plays Randall, did a very nice job in that scene.

Overall, the film didn't have the same feel as the first but that's the point. It's 10 years later. People change even if their jobs don't. But it was very good on its own merits with lots of great laughs and total raunchiness. As with every Kevin Smith film, there is movie debate. Randall performing his impersonation of the LOTR trilogy was classic. "There's only one Return, and it's Of The Jedi."

Lots of things were explained about the two clerks' and their friendship and there was total closure with everyone at the end. This could very well be the last movie with Jay and Silent Bob because you feel that it's all been done and has finished as well as it could. If you like Kevin Smith films go and check it out.