What Happened to Mallrats 2?

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Taking a look at the continued stop and start progress of Mallrats 2.
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[@JustinWhangYt]

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[@upyoursdotcom]

Much love man

[@p-__]

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[@wadewilson5712]

what happened ? kevin smith died and his corpse was reanimated and is what we see today.

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[@whiteydiamond]

What happened to Kevin Smith or Jack Black or any of the other fake Hollywood stoners?

[@parastroika2393]

I don't think any image defines modern Kevin Smith more than him standing in front of large number of funko pops.

[@CoryTheNorm]

What about the selfie of him crying at the end of WandaVision?

[@daemonsilver3304]

He was always this way. The fat just hid it.

[@Aaron-zt5ee]

@@CoryTheNormhe has a selfie of him crying watching every show ever. It’s actually weird how often he takes a picture of himself crying.

[@Vaniity_Velvet]

@@Aaron-zt5ee California Culture and Copious amounts of weed have turned him into the man he is now. Basically: A Cuck. I don't know if his, I assume now Ex? Wife cheated on him, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if she did more than a few times.

[@TheBuzzard42]

Modern Kevin Smith looks like when Mario gets hit and loses his mushroom powers.

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

Well he's getting older so...

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I can’t stand the man these days when he’s not crying he’s lying. The debacle around things like the he-man animated show just shows how far and how hard he’s fallen.

[@Corrinthian_]

😭

[@TheBuzzard42]

@@nehemiahpouncey3607 It's not so much that he looks older, it genuinely looks like he never bought new clothes after he lost all the weight! If he jumped off a mountain in one of those jerseys now, I'll bet he could just safely glide down like a flying squirrel.

[@TheBuzzard42]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Oh, I definitely agree! And yeah, what's with all the crying pictures? It's madness! I'm starting to think he lost all that weight through his tear ducts alone!

[@MaltiBLT]

I really didn’t know Mallrats was so hated. I mean, every time I’ve brought it up to my Dad he always says, “That movies fucking HILARIOUS.”

[@misanthropic_shithead7438]

"Fucking hikarious" is a MASSIVE overstatement. It's alright abd it has some funny moments but your dad's giving it way too much credit

[@karenduvall1415]

That is criminal that kid is on THE ESCALATOR AGAIN!!!

[@teethgrinder83]

Yeah I didn't know either-i remember watching it on VHS in the 90s and we thought it was alright. Mind you we were often stoned as teens so that might have swayed things-now I want to rewatch it and see how my reaction is lol

[@CantTellYou]

Same, every time I poop on one of my dad’s pretzels he just goes “great movie”

[@FatherAxeKeeper]

yeah my friends and I would watch it on VHS all the time back in jr high/highschool. we loved it. never knew it was hated on so much

[@LadyDarkHatter]

"... Die Hard, but in a mall." [looks nervously over at Paul Blart Mall Cop] maybe that movie never coming out was for the best

[@caseyvance2791]

KEEP PAUL BLART'S NAME OUT YA DAMN MOUTH

[@dakotatotten5355]

Jason mews as John McClane is comedy gold in my book

[@dakotatotten5355]

Jason mews as John McClane is comedy gold in my book

[@moxiemaxie3543]

That's not close to diehard-esk

[@freakshowfilmfestival3591]

He wanted to cast his co-star from Hollywood Babble-on as the main villain. 🤨

[@mybrainmelted]

nice to see a whang video for once that isnt focused on bodily fluids

[@dakotatotten5355]

YOU WATCH YOUR MOUTH !!!!

[@realjpegmafia]

Chocolate Covered Pretzel ?

[@justinbremer2281]

​@@dakotatotten5355Around all these flying fluids, one must!

[@daemonsilver3304]

{looks at Kevin Smith's filmography} Sir, I beg to differ.

[@RusPitman]

As soon as I read this comment Kevin said “…critics shit in its mouth”

[@t3h54m]

Absolutely wild that Whang's first exposure to Kevin Smith was the Clerks cartoon. Same with me. So random. But, it was a fun little cartoon.

[@lidiawithaniOfficial]

Why are you watching cartoons at your age

[@ramonam.1668]

Who is driving?! Oh no bear is driving!

[@p-__]

My farts are better than Whang's farts.

[@RexcorJ]

I distinctly recall a night when Adult Swim interjected a "lost episode" of the animated series that was originally scheduled to play when the series was fresh, but was lost to time? (I don't recall the exact details, but there was a disclaimer card at the beginning of the episode), and I had no clue what was going on, but I was invested. I think it was about Dante and Randall fighting a court case on the use of their store name by some dude in a suit. It was random at times, but hilarious. Made me love the dichotomy between the main two characters, and I would be delighted to see them IN LIVE ACTION when I just-as-randomly caught a viewing of the original movie. One of these days, I'll have to schedule a day where I just binge the whole saga, including the spinoffs.

[@zameion90]

The flashback episode being the second episode was the best joke ever

[@Vdr777]

Always loved Mallrats. Surprised how much hate it got.

[@p-__]

My farts are better than Whang's farts.

[@deribrank6532]

Me too man!

[@alyssaemiko]

Same here!

[@dfgyuhdd]

In retrospect I think the reason that it got so much hate at the time is because it's not very good.

[@GrimmShadowsII]

​@dfgyuhdd it depends on your definition of good.. It's good if you want a fun movie to sit back enjoy and have fun with but as far as story and character development yeah there really isn't much if any of that

[@melissaroszkowski8911]

I'm from Monmouth County NJ. I lived in a couple other states in my 20s but moved back in 2018. The Quick Stop from Clerks is still there. 12 minutes from my family home.

[@freeecountryy]

Nice! My friends and I took a roadtrip during senior year of HS and went down to your area. We visited QuikStop and got membership cards at RST Video. Around lunchtime we were walking through a parking lot and randomly ran into Kevin Smith! One of the best times of my life. I love your area.

[@tonecot8932]

I used to drill right next to it at Earle Waterfront base

[@melissaroszkowski8911]

@@tonecot8932 my Uncle used to do civilian work at Earle.

[@aisscience4372]

First time I hear about Shannon passing away. Suddenly I felt very sad, because BH 90210, Charmed, Mallrats - they are all my childhood memories. And now I realize it was all in the distant past that I can't get back...

[@ChaosRaych]

The fact that every actor Kevin Smith has worked with, even A-listers like Matt Damon & Ben Affleck, is so ready & willing to reassemble for him is a testament to how truly beloved he is

[@michaelreich4827]

I don't think Bruce Willis would, and that's not factoring in his health issues.

[@cartilagehead]

@@michaelreich4827literally went to say this

[@parastroika2393]

There's an old rumour that Kevin Smith was a ghostwriter for Good Will Hunting. If that were true it would explain why Affleck and Damon like him so much.

[@arima_song]

@@michaelreich4827 they have a quite strange relationship, weren't they?

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

​@@parastroika2393He passed the script to the Weinstein brothers which lead to the project being green lit. That's why Kevin Smith has an executive producer credit on Good Will Hunting.

[@atenchifan]

Loved all his early work Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob strike back and Clerks 2. He fell off after that

[@senecauk8363]

Totally agree. The new stuff really exposes his limits as a film maker.

[@absinthealice]

Absolutely agree as well..., but I'll have to add that Tusk was a decent watch.

[@playboy-music]

i wouldn't say he fell off but those movies were definitely the peak of his career

[@colejohnson5026]

It's strange. In 2004, being a detractor of Kevin Smith made no sense to me at all. But in 2024, being a fan of Kevin Smith makes no sense to me at all.

[@jamespetkwitz8737]

it makes sense if you just like having fun with characters you have grown up with. There is value in simply comfortable relaxed fun

[@signa8]

Kevin was blown away by The Last Jedi, particularly the part where Rose crashes into Finn. There's no coming back from that as far as I'm concerned. Turn in your writer's badge, you're fired.

[@codyramos3200]

​@@signa8😂

[@OlExtraRegularBass]

​@@signa8What is The Last Jedi??

[@signa8]

@@OlExtraRegularBass A movie I never heard of, but he really liked it.

[@trog6221]

The mall they were suppose to film at was my local mall, I remember hearing about the decision to film there from my dad at the time, I always wondered what happened to the movie, for anyone wondering the mall is still there and open, but like so many other malls its slowly dying, most shops being converted to doctors offices and clinics. Exton Square Mall in Exton Pennsylvania.

[@SRMkay]

I work across the street from the Exton Square Mall, it's such a weird ghost town. Definitely should have been shut down ages ago yet it's still running with like 1/3 occupancy

[@dorkchocolate]

Props to Kevin Smith for roaching it out and still making movies despite being nuked after the release of Mallrats.

[@piperian3962]

I’m also proud of him for still making movies even after learning nothing about how to do it since Clerks!

[@aisscience4372]

same thoughts

[@trustno173]

Well, would you even want a sequel to Mallrats from modern Kevin Smith?

[@TheKingOfBeans]

Yeah

[@stantheman9790]

Hell no lol

[@wadewilson5712]

NO , modern k smith is a walking corpse. the kevin smith we knew died years ago.

[@p-__]

My farts are better than Whang's farts.

[@scavone72]

@@p-__you wish

[@harpermundyy]

Budget went to extending his hockey jerseys passed his knees

[@p-__]

My farts are better than Whang's farts.

[@lidiawithaniOfficial]

So you judge male outfits now?

[@harpermundyy]

@@lidiawithaniOfficial not just now. It’s all I’ve ever done. Oh Yeahh it’s my favourite 😝

[@finsternis1986]

He also has to pay royalties to jazz-just fucking jazz music-every time he refers to people as "cats".

[@bees.857]

​@@finsternis1986stop lmao I absolutely forgot he does that

[@markandrewbryer4531]

The fact Smith is streaming live as this drops is low key big brain.

[@p-__]

My farts are better than Whang's farts.

[@InsideTheFrameProductions]

Just finished that fatmanbeyond live too

[@GarrettDaun]

“And the malls are soon to be ghost towns, well so long, farewell, goodbye…” -Modest Mouse

[@OlExtraRegularBass]

One of the best bands, ever. And one of their best songs from one of their best albums.

[@GarrettDaun]

@@OlExtraRegularBassagreed 100%. I saw them in Chicago at House of Blues, and again in Portland many years later. In Portland, a couple of the guys used to practice in a house near this park, so you could hear h the eir signature guitar sounds drifting through the park sometimes. Their music and lyrics really stick with me over the decades. Thanks for the reply.

[@Its_fonzo]

I was at a recording of hollywood babel on and he read a some of the script that he had worked on that day. Been waiting for Mallrats 2 ever since

[@p-__]

My farts are better than Whang's farts.

[@philtonge7522]

I worked in a mall (or shopping centre as we call them in the UK) for 13 years, 1988-2001. And when Clerks came out, all the retail workers adored it. Similarly with Mallrats. Even though it only went straight to VHS in the UK. Eventually I made pirate VHS dubs of both films and would lend them to workers in other shops. I think they were being used as training aids. Funnily enough, the grand majority of viewers, although liking both films, preferred Mallrats. Probably due to the familiarity of environment. See also 'Dawn of the Dead' (1979)

[@teethgrinder83]

Ahh thanks, I was just trying to think if it was ever released in the UK in cinemas because I remember we watched it a few times in the 90s on VHS as teens and I couldn't for the life of me remember someone mentioning having seen it in the cinema. Now it makes sense why haha Edit-i meant to say we preferred Mallrats as well lol

[@rhoadsy]

Mallrats was the first Smith movie that I experienced, so it has a special place in my heart.

[@lidiawithaniOfficial]

Stay away from children please

[@mrmusickhimself]

@@lidiawithaniOfficial It's not your fault

[@OlExtraRegularBass]

This reply chain is truly perplexing.

[@cemeteryclown8760]

Clerks animated was how I was introduced to Clerks, at age 5. My dad loved Kevin Smith, now I do too. I still have the Clerks animated DVDs, I'm surprised how little I hear people talk about it.

[@ectoplasm]

I'm with Universal on this -- no Legacy Sequels, man. I don't care about the kids of random characters from older movies and as soon as I hear this is a plot point in pretty much anything I'm going to dip.

[@DrMantisToboggan2005]

The new Bill and Ted was so bad.

[@jadenbryant9283]

​@@DrMantisToboggan2005that I disagree with.

[@necasperaterent29386]

Based.

[@unepresenceambigue]

RIP Shannen Doherty ❤️

[@antonydrossos5719]

I didn’t know she passed!

[@sleepingninjaquiettime]

​@@antonydrossos5719 awhile ago

[@Who_Dey420]

This is how I find out she passed away. Wow 😢

[@thestraydog]

​@@antonydrossos5719 Yeah, she sadly lost her battle with cancer in July...

[@everestcomputer]

brenda!?

[@Kage197]

Here we go guys, one of the best KZbinrs mixed with a guy that has definitively made some amazing movies at some point in time

[@p-__]

My farts are better than Whang's farts.

[@lidiawithaniOfficial]

You like male celebrities

[@ghoulishpup]

@@lidiawithaniOfficialr/rareinsults ??

[@daintywalrus4226]

It’s fucking nuts that there’s an army off bots across multiple KZbinrs I watch alone solely to post “my farts are better than _______’s farts”. Why is that a thing

[@jigglypuff3311]

​@@daintywalrus4226 if youre a coder testing out bot code, why not make it something funny?

[@louderbacker]

After what Clerks 3 was, I'm not sure I want a Mallrats sequel.

[@MSinistrari]

It felt like he was starting to go downhill with Zack and Miri. After Jay and Silent Bob Reboot and Clerks 3, I'm happy to see Mallrats just be a single film.

[@SoundwaveSC]

Came here to say the exact same thing.

[@bftvclips8925]

Kevin is sober now😂

[@dix0n778]

Yup, sometimes sequels are better off to the imagination, Joker 2 is another example.

[@Palooka37]

I've said it a lot, Scott Mosier was the glue that kept Kevin's movies together. Red State is probably the exception to this but overall everything made after that was just way too self indulgent, and often just utter dreck. There's clearly an audience for it that keeps him getting funding for them. But dear god Clerks 3 made me mad at how .. scrappy and unfinished it was. Not to mention just unpleasant. And I loved Clerks 2.

[@dc9662]

Amen on Strange Days. I saw that movie AND Mallrats in the theater with my younger brother. Btw, that Weezer song on the soundtrack rules.

[@charlesmurphy5644]

“Suzanne”

[@dc9662]

​@@charlesmurphy5644Yes! Thanks! Slipped my mind, but not my heart.

[@the-engneer]

I recommend Strange Days to people on a regular basis. Its such an underrated film

[@DarrenMainas]

In the mid-to-late 90s of the internet, Kevin Smith stuff was the shit. I was in high school and remember going on the View Askew message boards when people like Affleck and Damon would show up, kind of like an early version of an AMA. Guys like Ethan Suplee ("Soups") were regulars if I remember, and the whole Kevin Smith universe was exciting stuff to be a fan of. I can't speak to the era of Yoga Hosers.

[@xdarkwing104x]

03:30 I worked at blockbuster around the time mallrats came out and got to rent it for free. I thought it was boring. Then I saw clerks and LOVED it. Found out that mallrats was connected to it, and watched it a 2nd time and LOVED it. IMHO it doesn't hold up as a stand alone movie, but it's awesome in the view askew universe.

[@jackster10101]

I was never a Kevin Smith fan, but it's a shame he fell from grais basically ruining he-man for no reason, and I'm not a fan of he-man, but I find it disappointing him being part of ruining another beloved IP.

[@jackster10101]

Also, since I was super young at the time, I only have vague memories of blockbuster, so most of my memories are playing the wii and my ps2 and n64 and breaking my dsi because I was an idiot.

[@xdarkwing104x]

@@jackster10101 you should check out his early or works.

[@TheGreatBaronOBeefDip]

I swear I think there was a switch made between the Kevin Smith of the 80s 90s 00s and 10s and now, he used to be almost stoic, which was very funny in his delivery of spoken word tours, but now we have this highly emotional, nostalgic, thin, constantly crying dude who bops back and forth like a bollywood movie, and is constantly happy looking. From He-Man to Clerks 3, that Kevin makes trash, and that's coming from someone who likes Tusk, which I think is underappreciated.

[@lidiawithaniOfficial]

Yet you focus on what another man does because you like them

[@stantheman9790]

I love Tusk I don't care how ridiculous it is lol

[@TheGreatBaronOBeefDip]

@@lidiawithaniOfficial I used to, and what was this comment's point also, to point out that I happened to notice this man lived long enough not to be the villain but be mediocre?

[@TheGreatBaronOBeefDip]

@@stantheman9790 It has some absolutely insane scenes, but the cherry on top is the fight to the death to the song "Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac, I lost it.

[@p-__]

My farts are better than Whang's farts.

[@Who_Dey420]

And yes, that is the same Jason Lee from "My Name Is Earl."

[@zym6687]

The professional skateboarder?

[@Sickwithit355]

​@@zym6687Yep

[@StuffnSuch]

🙄 no shit.

[@RickStormT]

More a Scientologist than a skateboarder these days

[@zym6687]

@@RickStormT Not really since he was just on The Nine Club a couple years ago and has been dissociated from scientology for a decade+.

[@conaldeugenepeterson2147]

I like to believe Kevin Smith stopped after Strikes Back.

[@gocry6088]

My brother-in-law introduced me to View Askew with Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back when I was around 13. Years later, I got through a rough breakup with several liters of cheap Canadian whiskey and marathoning every View Askew movie. So a couple years later, for my 23rd birthday (Smith's age when he made Clerks), I gathered some friends and took a road trip to Jersey to go to the Quick Stop and the Secret Stash. A week later, Smith had his heart attack. I want to go to the new Secret Stash, but I don't wanna kill the guy

[@fuguestatetoo6789]

R.I.P. Shannon. never knew she was the reason for one of my favorite movies being made.

[@IRDeady]

Mallrats was my favorite movie when i was like 13. Still highly ranked in my head though i haven't watched it in decades.

[@p-__]

My farts are better than Whang's farts.

[@lidiawithaniOfficial]

I sure if your 13 year old self saw who you became. They would do the unthinkable

[@mahler151]

Probably best to keep it that way. Preserve the memories

[@t00ty_fru1ty]

Even if you hate the film script and find it infantile and all the performances aren't great for a mainstream film (the actual actors lee, docherty guy from guardians stc are serviceable) Jason Lee, although amateurish dominates the screen like no other performance, pure charisma.

[@justarandomname420]

Kevin Smith is a wreck that destroys everything he touches now.

[@little2526]

Mallrats was a movie I very vaguely remembered my Dad showing me when I was younger. I need to rewatch maybe!

[@gwyniverereveuse6504]

I met Jeremy London at Mobicon in 2017. I remember asking him what was up with Mallrats 2 taking so long. He had two answers, one was that Kevin Smith was busy with his horror projects. The second answer, and I feel main answer, was that at the time they were waiting on Shannen Doherty to make a full recovery from breast cancer. Which unfortunately never happened, may she RIP

[@blackphillip8486]

Loved Mallrats and most of Smith's output, Dogma might be my favorite. Nothing but love for Silent Bob.

[@AkuTenshiiZero]

Mallrats is one of those things that can only exist in the 90s. We had a whole culture around hanging out at malls, you just can't really base a movie on that anymore because that culture doesn't exist now.

[@barlow949]

Could be about people working in a dying mall

[@user-ig9vo1pq4d]

I am the biggest Mallrats defender. The last thing I want is for Kevin Smith to give that movie the Clerks 2/3 treatment.

[@Hellblazer1138Audio]

I didn't see the movie in theaters but I remember when it came out on pay-per-view. When the schedule came out for that month we found out It was only going to play twice so me and my brother made sure we didn't miss it. We caught the first showing and loved it so much that we watched it the second time around too and this time recorded it on to a blank tape. We had a black box at the time so all those channels were free.

[@Jivolt]

That kid… that kid is BACK on the escalator again!

[@enulmer986]

I hope his pants get caught and a BLOODBATH ensues

[@MelHouse-w1i]

"Why are we walking like this?" = nice. TOTALLY CLASSIC PFIEFFER!

[@cradio52]

He should make a satirical sequel with the characters from the original plus some new ones, still meeting up at the same sad, crumbling mall that now only has like… calendar stores and off-brand cell phone repair shops. 😅

[@bobbytables4305]

My friend and I were on Discord the day this released talking about Kevin Smith movies and how for years we didn't know that Jason Lee was a pro-skateboarder. Then I saw this in my feed today and laughed.

[@averyeml]

That clip of Michael Rooker with the kid interviewing him is adorable

[@toots3877]

That's Elliott Fullham, he played Jonathan in Terrifier 2&3

[@jigglypuff3311]

That's crazy. Just last week we had a friend who had never seen any Kevin Smith movies, instantly bought Mallrats, Clerks, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, watched Mallrats and Clerks. He liked them both. Mallrats might be my favorite Kevin Smith movie.

[@design1of470]

I think Mallrats 2 might've hit a snag once Shannen Doherty passed away. Kevin was still friends with her when she passed, so I'd bet she was an integral part of the sequel.

[@novelezra]

Mallrats is my favorite Kevin Smith movie. It's the perfect 90s hit if you ever need one. Probably helps that I'm a massive Jason Lee fan - it's funny to think he'd been skateboarding in Spike Jonze movies just a few years before.

[@meganmeixell5070]

I love all the Kevin Smith movies! The ones mentioned but including Chasing Amy, Jersey Girl and MY absolute favorite DOGMA!!! I LOVE THAT MOVIE

[@linnhuman]

oh wow this just made me remember seeing Kevin Smith posting from different malls across america because he was looking for the perfect Mallrats 2 mall. Then he just kinda stopped talking about it sooo thank you for this

[@megacide84]

In my head, My version of 'Mallrats 2' would be reuniting the original cast and the setting would be in front of the (now dead) mall from the first film. For the next two hours, the entire cast would just stand there complaining and moaning how online shopping has essentially killed the shopping mall. It would be shot in black and white a'la Clerks 1.

[@kylereece173]

When they announced Exton mall, me and a friend reserved a week's vacation to be extras. Couldn't wait. They were going to film at night time, we were ready and it just never happened.

[@tonecot8932]

I lived in Exton up until a year and a half ago. That mall is dead. Only thing keeping it alive is Round one and Boscovs

[@J_Dubb1]

Mallrats was fuckin amazing. We quoted it as much as we quoted Clerks back in the day. Critics dont know shit

[@Douglas_Rain]

I found Mallrats new for sale at Blockbuster on VHS and bought it because I have always have been intrested in mall culture. I am glad I found it. Same for Dazed and Confused at Suncoast Video right when it came out.

[@hmssirius9343]

"Die Hard in a mall" is Paul Blart Mall Cop.

[@therevolutionwillnotbeyoutubed]

Thank you for this Sir Whang! I've been wondering what the answer to this question was for years now.

[@ninjabreadman8166]

I don't have a pithy comment, but I hope everyone who likes this has a good day/night, and that Kevin Smith stops crying long enough to make Mallrats 2 ❤

[@p-__]

My farts are better than Whang's farts.

[@lidiawithaniOfficial]

@@p-__I’m sure you are wrestling with certain proclivities

[@stantheman9790]

Nah it's too late for a sequel if you're expecting it to be even a little good. I mean Clerks 3 wasn't worth the watch

[@VorpalSnickerSnack]

Gottem

[@AMultipolarWorldIsEmerging]

This is the definition of a pithy comment.

[@ZyxthePest]

Mallrats was the movie that made me wanna write movies. The idea of two dudes just getting into hi-jinx in a mall and talking comics spoke to me on a personal level. It reminded me of many a Saturday spent with my friends just hanging out at our local mall just doing nothing all day. I think Twilight Of The Mallrats has the potential to be one of Kev's better movies. Dead mall culture and the Brodie not being able to let go of his golden years is a great concept. I always liked the idea of the mall slowly going out of business, Brodie being one of the last stores in there, and coming up with some crazy idea to save the mall or have one last hurrah before it closes. Have this plan strain his relationship with his daughter, while TS tries to talk him out of it, more and more chaos ensues as they go along. The drama of Clerks III didn't really stick with me, even though it got an emotional response when I saw it in the theater. However, The 4:30 Movie was a vast improvement and really showed me that Smith can still write good dialog and get a fun story across. His biggest hurdle for me is being far too topical. No one wants to hear Kev talk about bitcoin and the pandemic, dude just needs to be himself and write about slacker relationships and nerd stuff.

[@pleoTCA]

5:35 Peter Griffin?

[@thomasdesmarais2916]

Man it’s true that it looks like a irl Peter griffin

[@Holychickendestroyer]

Mallrats sequel done today would be the characters in sweat pants power walking in a dying mall

[@postaldude9779]

2:48 gay magazines 😏?

[@misseselise3864]

he says game magazines

[@postaldude9779]

@@misseselise3864 no you are wrong and I am right LaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaaaaaaaa

[@QueenLizby]

I saw mallrats as a kid, it was my introduction to the View Askewniverse, and now I'm a grown woman and I would love to see mallrats 2 or a mallrats sequel series a la Wet hot American summer

[@Leon390]

1:23 I legitimately thought that was Eric Wareheim

[@SlickA10Homepage]

Where’s my chippy?

[@playboy-music]

I like to pork.

[@breakercassidy6946]

I saw Clerks and two summers later we moved and the one friend I made invited me to a popular girls party and she put on Mallrats on VHS and knowing who Jay and Silent Bob already were gave me an insane ice breaker and I made friends that night that I still talk to. Thanks Kev

[@nanoglitch6693]

He used to make such good movies..

[@xtraflo]

What's really disappointing is Jeff Anderson said he wanted his character Randal to have some scenes with Brody!! The only time I can remember of Jeff actually wanting to be in one of Kevin's future movies!!

[@lordnerdyguy]

a Whang! video about Kevin Smith? am I dreaming? is it Christmas day?

[@p-__]

My farts are better than Whang's farts.

[@iguanaboi3921]

It's weird how often Strange Days comes up in these videos. If I didn't know any better, I'd say Whang is trying to get me to watch it

[@JamesLawner]

I did not know there was a live-action Clerks show 🤯

[@dr.snakes]

It's for the best you don't.

[@barrywhite3240]

The Mallrats 4K UHD is beautiful. One of the better 4K transfers I’ve seen.

[@Who_Dey420]

I did not think that this is how I would find out that shannon doherty died.

[@Redem10]

I'll always remember the first time I heard about Mallrats. It was in a leaflet distributed by monthly by my local video club talking monthly and in there was Mallrats...and it had no synopsis and I don't think it even had an age rating. I must have been around 7-8....so I didn't have any idea what the title meant. Made it look so mysterious. I would eventually catch it on TV (and it took me several watches before I actually got the plot). My big brother gave me the movie as a christmas present, but he had no idea I had seen it before.

[@TrashQueenAndKing]

If Kevin Smith can still wear that backwards baseball cap in his 50s, you can dress however you want too

[@sirraf23]

Yeah if you too want to look like a 50 year old child then take fashion advice from Kevin Smith.

[@dr.snakes]

"How do you do, fellow kids?"

[@claraberry2978]

I hope he releases it and it's just 90 minutes of him sobbing on camera

[@paulamontoya4942]

0:55 loved Now and Then, great movie to be fair lol

[@jandoel]

I used to read the novelization every summer growing up

[@benjamingamache6441]

Thanks for showing strange days some love, whang!

[@trentc4576]

Love kevin and jay , their movies are so funny,classics,I think mallrats and clerks have to be cult classics

[@johnnytower6169]

Man the 90’s really were a golden age we never fully appreciated

[@commander1982]

Absolutely. And it’s not being biased by nostalgia or looking back with rose colored glasses- the 90s really were a golden time. But we just couldn’t see it at that time because we were standing right in the middle of it with no future point of reference

[@samuelontiveros9985]

Wow a whang video that's not nightmare fuel? 🎉

[@jamesturner44]

I remember the mall I hung out at in my teens and early 20s was a finalist to be the mall in MallRats 2. The Granite Run Mall in Media PA. didn't get picked and now that mall is gone.

[@benc1449]

Jay and silent Bob is a god tier movie.

[@archiemisc]

You for the "the opposite of" at the beginning there

[@cryptickitsune1876]

Mallrats is one of my favorite movies. I really wish they'd get this sequel out the door

[@stardogbillionaire]

After Clerks 3 I don’t want to see another thing from Kevin Smith.

[@ryanfulton8421]

Not even Tusk 2: the Retusking?

[@venomnbk3326]

What happened to Mallrats 2: 1: Kevin Smith has not made a good film since Clerks 2 (that was 18 years ago) 2: Kevin Smith is a Disney shill, who has bean caught in a never ending series of lies.

[@froderickalabaster]

that’s crazy how critics shit on mallrats so much, it’s damn near a perfect movie

[@brendenwhittington9088]

I’ve been on a Kevin Smith wave lately via podcasts and interviews and now this, great timing Whang

[@bell5679]

Its strange how much has stopped Mallrats 2, unlike the grimace, nothing can stop the grimace

[@evanlee93]

To be fair, "Now and Then" is a really good movie.

[@berryshmelly4928]

How about a Mallrats 2 being a horror comedy, where the returning characters fend off giant mutated mall rats(like actual rats) in gory fashion almost with a dawn of the dead feel to it. This would make Mallrats 1 the biggest prologue to a horror movie.

[@justinbremer2281]

I can't believe that thought wouldn't have crossed Smith's mind at least once

[@spun8389]

JAY AND SILENT BOB was my favourite movie as a teen

[@redacecard]

Whang needs to make a story about his channel and how he thought of "stories from the internet"

[@p-__]

My farts are better than Whang's farts.

[@AlexLeyba1]

Heyyyy a couple clips from my Jeremy London videos in here! Thanks brotha!!

[@philthytanks4952]

A new Whang video that’s not a compilation of old videos?!?! 😂

[@comettamer]

Shannon Doherty, yet again, being the catalyst for getting Mallrats made, would just be peak pop culture gold.

[@thethrashyone]

Kevin would've been better off trying to make Mallrats 2 a reality, instead of taking a steaming dump all over He-Man and literally crying over the backlash.

[@StrayTato]

Word

[@TheKingOfBeans]

I can’t believe there was a backlash against he-man 😂 lmao

[@anothergamingchannel2656]

Ngl, I still haven't finished the 1st season so I still might change my mind, but so far I haven't seen why it got so much shit. I think it's okay so far. Again, we'll see if I still think that when I finish lol

[@MrLegatoblue]

Yeah it was horrible. Honestly made me lose faith in him and then he had to lie about being a he-man fan.

[@Planag7]

You little boys still crying about that? I thought you moved on to harassing women?

[@originalhuggies9740]

Mallrats was one of my favorite movies in the 1990s. I'd rent it often. My friends and I would quote it like guys quoted Anchorman a decade later.

[@AnneHathawayRules]

I wish Whang had his own Netflix show where he just talks about weird shit 😢

[@p-__]

My farts are better than Whang's farts.

[@AnneHathawayRules]

@@p-__ Can I have a soda?

[@Batwing20293]

@@p-__But are they cake farts?

[@AnneHathawayRules]

​@@Batwing20293 🌬️🎂

[@TheKingOfBeans]

Why Netflix? He already does that here