Mallrats Critic Reviews

The movie is a piece of junk...However, it's also immensely likable and hysterically, irreverently funny.Read the full review

While admittedly ragged and ribald, it's a picture with an innate charm and honesty that should win over audiences.Read the full review

There are several painfully awkward "dead spots" in Mallrats where nothing works -- not the dialogue, the acting, or the direction.Read the full review

The slapstick would put Curly and Moe to shame. The raunch is crude as often as it is clever.Read the full review

Mallrats mixes clever bits and an appealing quirkiness (which goes a long way) with gross-out practical jokes, needless repetition and obvious padding, since it has no real plot. [20 Oct 1995]Read the full review

Strains through buckets of verbiage and muddled plot to seize only a few dopey laughs.Read the full review

I'm guessing even die-hard "Clerks" fans will find this only-in-America stuff only partially satisfying, like something they gorged on at the Eatery, then wished they hadn't.Read the full review

A hopelessly stupid movie that should appeal to baked couch potatoes everywhere.Read the full review

"Clerks" spoke with the sure, clear voice of an original filmmaker. In Mallrats the voice is muffled, and we sense instead advice from the tired, the establishment, the timid and other familiar Hollywood executive types.Read the full review