💬 Review mallrats (1995)

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Name of the movie you are reviewing: mallrats (1995)



after two best friends both get dumped by their girlfriends, they decide to hang out at the local mall. hijinks ensue.

Review:
the movie opens up with brodie telling a vulgar story about a friend who did unspeakable things with cats he bought from a pet store, followed by opening credits with references to comic books (director kevin smith is a huge fan of comic books). afterward, we meet t.s. and his soon-to-be ex-girlfriend, brandi. he's stressing out because they need to get to the airport before their flight to florida leaves, but brandi tells him about a woman who was meant to be a contestant on her father's game show who had an embolism and died while exercising. it's implied that t.s. is to blame for this woman's death because he told her that "the camera adds ten pounds," which made her panic due to past issues with her weight. brandi then explains that she has agreed to take the woman's place as the contestant on her father's show, which annoys t.s., who has never had a good relationship with brandi's father. he says some mean things about mr. svenning and brandi gets upset and dumps him. we then cut to brodie's room, his soon-to-be ex-girlfriend rene is gathering her things and about to sneak out the window because brodie still hasn't told his mother that he's seeing someone. she complains about this, and other things, like brodie's lack of romance and his qualities that she considers childish (he's obsessed with comics and videogames). she exits through his bedroom window, leaving behind a note where she says their relationship is done.

this is when t.s. comes to visit and lament about how brandi left him. brodie decides that the best thing to do is to hang out at the mall and forget about the girls who broke their hearts. when they get to the mall, they learn that brandi's dad's game show is going to be filmed there and, out of revenge, enlist the help of jay and silent bob to sabotage the game show by any means necessary.

we also meet several other characters, like the manager of fashionable male, who is trying to get rene on the rebound and also wants to beat up brodie, the security guard lafours who takes his rent-a-cop job way too seriously.

several comedic anecdotes occur, and there's a healthy amount of slapstick humor as well. a lot of the jokes are sexual or about marijuana, but that's to be expected in a kevin smith film.

i found the movie to be charmingly funny, and that it still holds up despite being from 1995.

Would you recommend this to other users? definitely, especially if you're a fan of kevin smith films.

Rating(1-5): ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
 
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