A book of in-depth analysis of Kevin Smith's first five films. I ordered it online and read a forty-page preview, and while I have to admit that most of it's information any die-hard fan already has, I also haven't gotten to the analysis yet. I only know it's there because of book reviews.
In any case, I am wondering what deeper meaning the author found in the 1980s-teen-movie-homage Mallrats, or the up-its-own-ass-with-in-jokes Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. While both of these are great films, they are much less suited to deep, scholarly analysis than Chasing Amy, Dogma, or even Clerks. It also gives us a sneak-peak at Jersey Girl--something that confused me until I realized the book was published in 2002.
It also covers Clerks: the Animated Series--by far the least sophisticated of Kevin Smith's works, if you could call them sophisticated (and you could, most of them at least, if you look past the vulgarities there's a good deal of substance underneath that Smith's greatest critics tend to overlook.) The series was a complete 180 from the movie: Clerks was bizarre, but subtly (almost realistically) so; the animated series was loaded with impossible insanities and off-the-wall antics.
All in all, this should be a very interesting read. Anyone who's not a die-hard fan and loves the Smith films because of their appearance as lowest-common-denominator fluff rather than in spite of it might want to stay away.
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