Synopsis:
A day in the life of a couple of slackers.

Review:
Although widely considered to be the poorest of Kevin Smith’s 4 films, I liked Malltrats. Sure the story’s light compared to Chasing Amy, but this isn’t a story about a hetero – homo – lesbian love triangle, so fuck off.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that Mallrats is anything on par with…oh say…Shakespeare, but it’s good for shits and giggles. Just see the fucking movie.

Special Features :
This disc is stacked like a motherfucker. The View Askew look back at the making of Mallrats was fairly comprehensive. Presented by Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier, this feature is basically a making of. It’s well worth the time if you liked the movie.

The commentary track featuring Smith, Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes, and Scott Mosier is the shit. These guys spend more time busting each other’s balls than they do commenting on the movie, which was great. The only thing that really blew was that visual feature on this commentary was only used about 4 times throughout the whole movie.

The real fucking pisser is that one of the guy’s does a visual imitation of somebody (sorry I didn’t go looking for who) but the alternate angle video option isn’t on. Why the fuck did they bother with this feature? Use you’re fucking heads next time, Jag-offs.

The deleted scene section was really extensive, but I wouldn’t say that it’s really worth the time to watch the entire original intro to the film (clocking in at around half an hour it’s a bit much). The remaining cut scene’s are nothing special, but that’s why they were they cut.

The production notes provide more background info on the making of the movie, if you didn’t get enough info from every other feature on this disc, personally I thought it was over-kill. The Cast and Filmmakers section provided more info on the actor’s and Kevin Smith. I guess if you find this shit entertaining it’s worth your time, but I found it boring.

The picture gallery was shit, but hey aren’t they always? The sound track presentation was comprised of a commercial for the sound track and a music video. Watch’em if you want, but neither of the 2 was very interesting.

Lastly, the Web links. I don’t have a DVD-ROM so all you motherfuckers will have to check this shit out for yourselves.

Video and Audio:
The boys over at Universal did a good job; I didn’t see any problems with the video transfer. And the Dolby 5.1 does a stand up job too.

“Adventure? Excitement? A Jedi craves not these things.” - Silent Bob

-Nicky Eyes