MALLRATS (a J!-ENT DVD Review)

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MOVIE COMPANY:  Gramercy Pictures
CAST: Starring Shannen Doherty, Jeremy London, Jason Lee, Claire Forlani, Priscilla Barnes, Michael Rooker and more.
DIRECTED BY: Directed by Kevin Smith
PRODUCED BY: James Jacks, Sean Daniel, Scott Mosier
RATING: Rated R
INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE URL: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0113749
TYPE OF MOVIE: Action, Romance
DURATION: 1 hour and 36 minutes

From Kevin Smith, the acclaimed director of Clerks, comes this outrageous story of two loafers, Jeremy London (The Babysitter) and Jason Lee (Kissing a Fool), who spend way too much time hanging out at the mall.

When Brodie (Lee) is dumped by his girlfriend, Shannen Doherty (Heathers, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun), he retreats to the mall with his best friend T.S. (London), whose girlfriend has also left him.  Between brooding and visits to the food court, the unmotivated twosome decide to win their girlfriends back with the help of the ultimate delinquents, Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) and Jay (Jason Mewes), whose continuing adventures take the word “nuiscance” to a whole new level.

DVD EXTRAS:

• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby, Collector’s Edition
• Commentary by director Kevin Smith, and cast members Ben Affleck, Jason Lee and Jason Mewes, produces Scott Mosier and Vincent Pereira
• Production notes
• Theatrical trailer(s)
• More Than an Hour of Deleted Scenes
• Making-Of Featurette
• Production Photos
• Film Highlights
• DVD-ROM Features: Weblinks
• Widescreen anamorphic format

KNOWN DVD SECRET(S):

Hidden message:
Enter the “Special Features” screen and select “Deleted Scenes”. Press Right to highlight the robot’s eyes. Press [Enter] to hear a “stop looking for Easter Eggs” message from director Kevin Smith.

DVD REVIEW:

Man, I don’t know where to start.  When I first watched “Clerks”, I was like “I don’t get it?  Why do people love this movie?” and then I saw “Dogma” and “Chasing Amy” and I don’t know…I became a big fan of Kevin Smith’s work…I even started to appreciate Ben Affleck more after watching the three movies.

Although, I didn’t watch the movies in order, I saw “MALLRATS” after the three and I love it.  It was very hilarious and the characters were pretty cool!  A few people say…why do you like these movies, I don’t get it?  The same with “Seinfeld”, many people said, I don’t get it?  How do you like a show about nothing.  With Kevin Smith movies, there’s more to the story behind the titles and one of the reason why I respect Smith is his appreciation for having fun, his work and fighting for what he believes what is right despite the corporate execs nagging on him (which you will find out after watching the making of “Mallrats” section).

As for the DVD, “MALLRATS” is awesome!  The colors are nice, the audio…this is a dialogue movie, don’t expect major sounds…  But aside from the cool movie, the special features is what makes this DVD so awesome!  The deleted scenes, damn…this is not 5 minutes worth.  This movie has more deleted scenes than “GEN-X COPS” which has 45 minutes, this DVD has over an hour!  It’s also interesting to find out the certain things they cut out, they pretty much had a different movie beginning than what you see from the original.  Wow!  Then there is this interesting live commentary where you can watch them watch the movie and comment.  You get to use your “angle” button in this section.  Featurettes, a cool inside booklet and much more.  So much stuff to keep you busy for awhile!

Oh, btw…the most interesting part is to know how the execs were against having Jason Mewes in the movie.  Interesting!!

Highly recommended movie…like all Kevin Smith movies!  I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT!  I LOVE IT!

THE MOVIE:  A-
THE DVD EXTRAS:  A+
THE DVD OVERALL:  A