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Anyone bashing Kevin Smith, what were you expecting? This was a good time at the movies, the 2 Colleen's were great characters and hopefully will be part of the "crew" moving forward in the cameo roles in the new Mallrats, and whatever else Kevin has coming up. The wait in between his films is hard enough, just go and enjoy! Kevin Smith fans will support him no matter what he does. Haters gonna hate I guess!

Kevin Smith's follow up to horror-comedy Tusk and the second entry in the "True North Trilogy" ups the humor, weirdness, and stupidity. You can tell it was built from the ground up to be a dumb B-movie. It's evident that Smith and crew were having a lot of fun making it. Fortunately some of that fun makes it's way into the movie making things a little easier for audiences to swallow. One just has to come into it with expecting outlandish absurdity. Much like Tusk, the movie is kind of batcrap crazy. Only this time it's more in the realm of just plain stupid. It's a fun kind of stupid, but stupid nonetheless. The kind that's going to turn off a lot of people that don't have a stomach for over-the-top ridiculousness. The intentional silliness and refusal to take anything seriously is amusing. Smith fills the movie with clever one-liners and amusing scenarios that poke fun at this technology obsessed generation. The ranting of an old man? Perhaps. Luckily the two leads are given some sharp dialog to combat it and provide the audience with some chuckles. Eventually though all this goofiness and oddball imagination reaches a point where it all beings to feel like too much. That's when the "Bratzis" (bratwurst ****) finally show up. We an amusing first conflict and then the plot deepens, we meet the main villain, and we start wishing things would wrap up already. Mercifully it does, but not before that eccentric sense of humor and absurdity that started as the movies strange sense of charm and strength in spite of it's flaws starts to get on our nerves. Then there's the stuff where Smith just takes shots at his critics. After Tusk I was expecting something weird, funny, and maybe even moronic. Turns out that's exactly what I got and I found myself suitably amused throughout the majority of it's runtime. It lacks Tusk's charm and quality (a big red flag should be going up if you didn't like that movie), but altogether it can prove amusing if you're just looking for some cheap laughs and something different to watch with your brain turned off. If B-movie horror-comedies aren't your thing then don't bother checking this one out. It's the kind of movie you watch for the silly jokes and just to see what kind of bizarre crap happens onscreen. It does go to moronic at times, but it's not a total waste of time if you know what to expect. And let's be honest, the plot description should give you a pretty darn good idea of what that is. 6.2/10

It may not be the nex big KS movie but you can tell he enjoyed making this movie with his daughter. Dumb jokes with **** bratwurst so expect stupidity. It was a stupid yet fun ride.

I don't get it. I know everyone hates this movie but seriously, what the hell is this? Kevin Smith just does things for himself now with no regard to anyone else and it's supposed to be an artist's liberation? Very few auteurs get away this, let alone Smith and art this ain't. Everyone needs perspective and Smith seems to have completely lost it in service to his internet fanboydom that's become all about feeding his ego.

This esoteric follow up to Tusk from director Kevin Smith is bewilderingly strange, and uninspiring. Smith and Depp (the youngers) are both adequate but unpolished, though the ridiculousness of the script didn't really call for excellence. Depp the elder reprises his role of detective-with-atrocious-accent, perhaps included to make this a complete family affair. The storyline is dumb, the pacing is odd and mercifully the film is brief. Where Tusk was hideously unsettling, this is strangely banal and absurd in equal measure. Do not bother, even if you're a Smith fan. 3.02/10