TheRetroCritic

From Bryan Johnson comes a black comedy with more than just a little edge to it. Vulgar sees a pathetic, down-and-out clown, played by Clerks ' Brian O'Halloran, respond to an ad which would require him to perform a joke at a bachelor's party only to find that a psychotic father and his two sons are planning to rape him. Now that's a synopsis! Must have been a shoo-in pitch at Lionsgate Entertainment. Who would have thought that Shakes The Clown and I Spit On Your Grave would combine their plots to create a whole new movie? The depiction of Will "Flappy" Carson's (O'Halloran) unpleasant day-to-day life is handled with a sarcastic sense of humour at first with his mother being so over-the-top vile and his job not exactly working out the way he was hoping it would. Bryan Johnson himself also pops up here and there as Will's best friend to cheer him up or shoot the shit. Then the film takes such a dark detour that, right there and the

Every saga has a middle age and this is what happens when Jay and Silent Bob get old... The follow-up to Kevin Smith's classic low-budget cult classic Clerks may not have been greeted with an overwhelming amount of positive outcries since half of the View Askew fans weren't sure how Smith could possibly make another Clerks movie successfully. Were those fans proven wrong? Well... yes and no. Clerks II 's goal wasn't to imitate the first film or try to live up to it, instead, it wanted to continue these characters' story and expand their universe a little. Case and point: the film opens with the iconic Quick Stop burning down before the film transitions from black-and-white to colour thereby telling us from the offset that this isn't the same movie and that Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randall's (Jeff Anderson) lives are about to change radically. It's a really good scene and one of the strongest images in any Kevin Smith movie to date. Th

The spin-off to end all spin-offs, Jay and Silent Bob finally got their own film to play with after effortlessly stealing the show in pretty much every movie they were in and with the likes of Will Ferrell, Mark Hamill and an all-star View Askew cast supporting everyone's favourite stoners, this was set to be one truly goofy and entertaining little adventure. And, indeed, it was! After finding out that their name is being used in Hollywood without their permission and that people are bad-mouthing them online, Jay and Silent Bob set off on an epic road trip which will take them all the way from the almighty Quik Stop to L.A.. On the way, they meet colourful characters to say the least, including a hitch-hiking George Carlin, an orangutan, a dorky Sean William Scott, and hundreds of cameos, some of which a tad confusing with both Jason Lee and Ben Affleck playing dual roles. Oh, they also party with Scooby-Doo, Shaggy and the rest of the Mystery Machine gang, as you do.