Mallrats

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Movie
German title Mallrats
Original title Mallrats
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1995
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Kevin Smith
script Kevin Smith
production Scott Mosier
Kevin Smith
Sean Daniel
James Jacks
music Ira Newborn
camera David Klein
cut Paul Dixon
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Clerks - The slow-moving

Successor  →
Chasing Amy

Mallrats is an American comedy film from the year 1995 by director Kevin Smith and the second part of the New Jersey Films .

action

The two friends Brodie and TS are left by their respective friend on the same day. While the reasons for this at Brodie are varied (he is a comic and video game freak who lives in the basement of his parents' house and has no ambitions), the separation comes unexpectedly for TS: he wanted to get his hand on a vacation together in Florida Stop friend Brandi Svenning; When she cancels the trip at short notice, because her father Jared needs a replacement for the deceased candidate in his new TV date show and she is supposed to take this place, it comes to an argument and the relationship ends.

Brodie and TS head to the mall to distract themselves. There they find out that Brandi's father's show (a Herzblatt variant) is to be broadcast from there. They decide to sabotage the production and put their friends Jay and Silent Bob on it, who were up to it anyway. As a result, Jay and Silent Bob try different ways to bring the show's stage to collapse, but they fail. Instead, they are being followed by security.

In the meantime, Brodie discovers that his ex-girlfriend Rene has gotten involved with a gentlemen's outfitter that he hates and who beats him up to keep him away from Rene. When Brodie and TS are expelled from the mall by Brandi's father (who doesn't like TS) and the security forces, the two go to a fortune teller, whose statements lead TS to want to fight for his relationship. The same effect has on Brodie a conversation with his hero Stan Lee , who had been arranged by TS for this purpose on Brodie. After Jay knocks out two of the three date show candidates, the two friends take their places. TS, after playing the game for some time, picks up Brandi's hand on stage; she agrees. Brodie also wins his girlfriend back; He sends his rival to prison by having a video played on the monitor wall with Jay and Silent Bob's sex that shows him having sex with a 15-year-old.

At the end, the other fates of the characters are revealed: Brodie has impressed some television producers on his date show and takes over the Tonight Show , Rene is his band leader there . TS and Brandi get married after finishing college .

Reviews

The film was received with little enthusiasm by critics.

James Berardinelli compared the film on ReelViews with the first film in the series, Clerks , and found that Mallrats was less original and less funny, and therefore a "moderate disappointment".

Janet Maslin claimed in her review for the New York Times that the film had no real plot. The great discovery of the work is Jason Lee , who fills the role of the slacker convincingly.

“A teen film with the well-known ingredients, but which develops its wild jokes on a very high level. The background to the film is the all-positive consumerism of the 90s. "

- Lexicon of International Films

background

Mallrats is the second of originally planned three parts of the New Jersey films . The studio wanted director Smith to cast Seth Green for the role of Jay . Smith resisted it, but still had to hold an extra casting , in which Breckin Meyer also took part. Ultimately, however, Smith was able to prevail. Jared Svenning was to be played by William Atherton , according to Smith's original wish , but he turned it down because he said Mallrats would be a teenage film. For the role of Tricia Jones had Jennifer Love Hewitt advertised.

Production costs were estimated at 6.1 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 2.1 million in US cinemas. The video version, however, was a success; A special edition was released on DVD for the tenth anniversary of the theatrical release.

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  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Mallrats . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2009 (PDF; test number: 75 282-a V).
  2. ↑ see Metascore at Metacritic.com ; Retrieved May 26, 2008
  3. ↑ Film review by James Berardinelli, accessed June 6, 2007
  4. ↑ Janet Maslin : Whiling Away the Day At the Shopping Center , NY Times, October 20, 1995 (accessed May 26, 2008)
  5. ^ Mallrats in the Lexicon of International Films Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  6. ^ Box office / business for Mallrats (1995) . In: IMDb . IMDb.com, Inc., accessed May 7, 2017 .

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