Pretty decent flick, made as a valentine to Kevin Smith's fanbase I'd say more than anything. Clearly production values were increased, I mean from a film made by a fresh out of film college student, financed by credit cards and shot mostly at night to a major Hollywood film I'd HOPE the production values went up Like the first one, the story line was focused mainly on "A Day In The Life" though a prologue and epilouge do stretch several months prior and after, and centered around the love life of Dante Hicks and how that affected his friendship with Randal Graves. Pretty decent lines, the usual Smith flare of completely raunch-ing up the film and a number of cool callbacks to the original. Jay & Bob of course are back, but mostly background players, but more so than they were in the original. Sadly no Bezerker...and no Snowball (The Clerks Scott Moiser version, Ethan Suplee was in it but not as the Mallrats Snowball) Other than Dante, Randal, Jay and Bob, no other ViewAskewniverse characters were seen, and only one other was mentioned by name. Jason Lee and Ben Affleck both show up though as well as some of the usual Smith friends and family In all a good sequel. It did not reek of "Oh, WHY did this movie HAVE to be made?" the way most do. By the way, did Joel Siegel miss Bachelor Party? Because thats what the beastilty was referenecing. Then again, what was Siegel expecting after seeing what transpired in the first Clerks? Anyway, suffice to say, there wasn't anything that you needed to call AAPCTA or PETA, or any watchdog groups