Best & Worst: Kevin Smith

15 years of highs and lows with the king of stoner cinema

Best & Worst: Sentimental Scene

The Best: Randal’s Jail Rant

Film: Clerks II (2006)

Why It Rocks: After an “interspecies sex show” lands them in the slammer Randal lets rip at best pal Dante (Brian O’Halloran) but soon suggests they buy the singed Quick Stop to reopen it and confesses his strictly (hetero) undying love for him.

Aww. See? It’s not all knob jokes, sweary dialogue and scatological humour. We could have also plumped for the scene where father-to-be Dante spots a sweet gap-toothed girl from his car (she’s played by Smith’s daughter Harley fact fans!)

The Worst: All 102 Minutes Of Jersey Girl

Film: Jersey Girl (2004)

Why It Sucks: It might have been unfairly affected by the Hollywood clusterbomb that was “Bennifer” but Kevin’s brief foray into mainstream family flicks was unwise.

The cinematic equivalent of mainlining treacle this clunker had all the hallmarks of the gloopy rom-com. Overwrought tragedy? Check. Cutesy kid? Check. Ben Affleck in furrow-browed lunk mode? Double-check.

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    • Gorty

      Oct 30th 2010, 1:02

      Wow, in another article you put Alanis Morisette as God as one of biggest miscasts in movies ever and here you praise it.

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