An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder
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Canada DVD Cover InformationActor: Kevin SmithBrand: Sony DVD: Region Code 99 Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.78:1 Running Time: 239 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-11-28 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Sony Pictures Movie Reviews of An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening HarderMovie Review: Sophomore Slump, LunchboxI had high hopes for this set. I thought the first one was hilarious, and the Superman/Jon Peters and Prince stories were priceless. This second set just doesn't have the same chops. Smith rambles more but ends up in fewer places, and the "topical" material seemed very dated, even when it was first released. Affleck's career meltdown, ranking on "Jersey Girl" and "Gigli", bagging Mel Gibson and "Passion of the Christ" - it all might have been interesting 18 months earlier when people were actually talking about that stuff, but even when this was released, it just seemed kind of boring and irrelevent. If that's all the material available to work with, there should have been a push to get this set out sooner so that it didn't come off like thumbing through old copies of "Entertaiment Weekly" in your doctor's waiting room. I love Kevin Smith, "Clerks II" is genius, but this set is a snoozer. If you want an entertaining evening with Kevin Smith, rent the "Clerks II" set and wallow in the terrific documentary and bonus features.
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As with his previous stand-up DVD, Smith welcomes frequent (and now drug-free) costar Jason Mewes onstage for some extreme (and extremely funny) sex-talk, including demonstrations of Mewes' "half-half-whole" technique (don't ask), and later (as a disc 2 bonus feature) approaching young London women with a the kind of pick-up lines (like "Let me get up in them guts") that only a guy like Mewes could get away with. Dropping F-bombs like there's no tomorrow, Smith is crude but intelligent (nobody makes it on luck alone), and this two-disc set will satisfy established fans and would-be converts alike. Likewise, Smith-haters will find nothing to change their minds, since Smith occasionally comes across as smug and self-satisfied, even when he's really not. What matters here is the humor of a self-effacing guy who's never quite sure if he deserves his own success. That puts Smith on even terms with his fans, and it's that dynamic, more than anything else, that makes these concerts a whole lot of fun. --Jeff Shannon
Private Parts
Artie Lange - It's the Whiskey Talking
Dirty Work
Artie Lange's Beer League
Clerks - The Animated Series Uncensored
Dazed & Confused (Widescreen Flashback Edition)
Beerfest (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Super Troopers
Club Dread (Unrated Extended Edition)
Clerks (Three-Disc 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
Jay and Silent Bob Do Degrassi The Next Generation (Unrated)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Dimension Collector's Series)
Dogma (Special Edition)
Clerks II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
Clerks (Collector's Series)
Chasing Amy - Criterion Collection
My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith
Sold Out: A Threevening With Kevin Smith