antoniasnyder Mallrats was early in Kevin Smith's career and you can see that the less budget Smith has to play with the better the film is. Set entirely in a mall this film has great characters, a free flowing screenplay filled with snappy dialogues and great direction by Smith. Everyone of Kevin Smith's entourage till then is there in some spades and there are some connections and gags that only a person well versed in Kevin Smith's Universe would understand. This is a great watch.

Smoreni Zmaj Second in line of ingenious achievements of Kevin Smith. Although with almost identical cast, it is completely different than Clerks and it's hard to decide which one is better. But this one is definitely funnier. I like this movie so much that even Shannen Doherty, whom I can not stand, becomes lovable in it. Smart, witty, entertaining, bunch of great actors and unforgettable quotes. Jay and Silent Bob, from supporting role, come closer to the first team and you simply have to love them. After this you can not wait to see them again in next movie. I want to rate it 10/10, but I have to at least try to maintain certain level of objectivity, cause this definitely isn't one of the best movies in history of cinematography. But one of dearest for sure. 8,5/10

Rameshwar IN Reviewed July 2010Kevin Smith continues his familiar strait of buddy comedies that doesn't exactly need a plot. His strengths are clever writing that features extended conversations on a given topic and funny wordplays. Even though it comes back to comic books, potty & dirty jokes, there is always a fresh new angle it is looked at each time. Jay and Silent Bob are present here too, but are not as effective as they are in Kevin Smith's other works. Kevin Smith continues his familiar strait of buddy comedies that doesn't exactly need a plot. His strengths are clever writing that features extended conversations on a given topic and funny wordplays. Even though it comes back to comic books, potty & dirty jokes, there is always a fresh new angle it is looked at each time. Jay and Silent Bob are present here too, but are not as effective as they are in Kevin Smith's other works. It is entertaining mostly and features likable but amateurish acting.

david-sarkies After seeing this movie all I can really say is that Kevin Smith has a really weird sense of humour. The humour of Clerks is still here in Mallrats, but the language has been toned down a bit so that the movie receives only an MA rating instead of the R rating that Clerks received.Mallrats is similar to Clerks in that it deals with relationships. There are numerous similarities, namely that the good things are the ones that we tend to let go of. Jay and Silent Bob are here and play a much more active role, and the weird philosophical discussions, such as how Lois Lane cannot have Superman's babies because Kryptonite babies would probably kill her, are also here. One major difference though is that Mallrats is a much more expensive film and it shows. Mallrats is in colour, is set in a Mall, and has a lot of extras. Kevin Smith winds the entire movie up with a big dating game, and even has a comic book writer make a cameo appearance (which is not surprising considering this guy was probably Smith's hero).Mallrats seems to be like the Bill and Ted's movies in that way that it ends with a big extravaganza in front of a huge audience. There are antagonists in this movie as well. Le Four the security guard, and the father of an ex-girlfriend who is hosting a dating game in which he is giving away his daughter because the previous contestant died of an embolism while trying to loose weight for the show. It is also interesting that the characters are also similar. We have one loud mouthed guy who seems to have a response for everything, and a humbler guy who is more or less led around by the louder guy. This time though they are both trying to win back their girlfriends while trying to defeat the forces stopping them.Mallrats deals mainly with relationships and why they break up. It is also interesting how the comic book writer says that his worst mistake was giving up his girlfriend for the comic books. It makes us think what is important in our lives, our relationships or our material goods. This guy says that the worst mistake he made was to place material goods over relationships. Even though he had heaps of women in the future, it wasn't worth giving up a genuine relationship for. This is what makes me think because there is only one thing worth giving up a relationship for and that is God. Everybody says that women are not worth it but a true, loving relationship should be far more important than any job, or material goods. A relationship with God is worth more than anything because God wants one with us, and who is it to say no to the most powerful being in the universe. The more I think about material wealth, the more I come to see how pointless it all is.I still wonder if Kevin Smith is a Christian or not because even though he thanks God for making the movie possible, the stuff that we find in the movie is really something that would dishonour God immensely. Things like showing naked breasts and rampant sex in an elevator. Even sex with a fifteen year old girl, though that guy that does it is arrested for it. Personally I think Smith might be quite liberal in his faith, but when it comes down to it, only God knows where we are at.