after be dump by their girlfriend and t. s. ( jeremy london ) and brodie ( jason lee ) go to the mall to keep their mind off the situation . soon and however and thought turn to get their lady back and the dynamic duo will have to fight mall security and a fashionable male ( ben affleck ) and a game show producer ( michael rooker ) in order to succeed . write a fair review of mallrats be one of the hard thing for me to do and and it no surprise that i haven not do so in all the year i have be write review . the film come out when i be fourteen and and i go to see it with my cousin at the local mall after a rousing bus trip . we have see the ambiguous advertisement in the back of comic book for month and just know this be something we have to see . once in the theater and we be practically alone there be only three other people and include a young woman and her grandmother and both of whom walk out early on . for whatever reason and i identify with this film . i hadn not yet see clerk and i do not have the background in film to really understand all the reference to jaw or butch cassidy and the sundance kid or apocalypse now . but the potty humor mixed with the intelligent dialogue ( about scatological topic ) hit home with me and and even now thirteen year later it remain my favorite film . i have give the film a high rating because i simply can not get enough of it . i have the trading card that be sell at the time and i have visit the eden prairie mall where the movie be film ( it in minnesota ) . but and i want to stress this and my high rating do not by any mean indicate this be a critically beautiful film . read the review of the professional at the time ( ebert and maltin and and others ) and you will see that it be more or less expect to bomb ( although i think in hindsight many more people find the film to their liking ) . be there flaws . you bet . watch jeremy london and for example . a horrible and horrible actor . even with these odd and script conversation he come off a force and and if you watch him while another actor be speak and you can see him physically prepare himself to speak his line . he can not become t. s. quint and he can only be jeremy london . shannon doherty and likewise and just doesn not seem to hack it . she a good actress than many and but this film just do not work for her . she come off a a reject from empire record . clearly and i be push this film . watch clerk first ( even though this one take place first in chronological order ) . if you like clerk and try this one . then try chase amy . all three be great . personally and i think kevin smith film go downhill after that . he may disagree and i know many of the fan do . but if you do not mind intelligent potty humor and mallrats be for you .