everyone have to start somewhere . kevin smith start his popular jay and silent bob series with clerk . and a $ 50 and 000 film whose soundtrack cost more than the actual movie cost to make . it poorly do and it monochromatic ( which actually work to it advantage ) and it cheap and but it funny and and that all that really count . the story be more than i think it would be and and it continuously funny throughout the whole short runtime . many of the crude adventure of dante and randal be now legendary . dante ( brian ohalloran ) work at the quick stop convenience store . he call in on a day off . his friend randal ( jeff anderson ) work next door at a video store and but sporadically close it to hang out at the quick stop . throughout the day and various thing occur and such a a gum representative try to get people to stop smoking and chew his gum and a rabbi use the employee bathroom ( with an unexpected twist at the end ) and disrupt a wake and and the now classic scene at the video store with happy scrappy hero pup . this movie have non stop humor go for it . whether it dante or randal confrontation with the unruly customer ( who seem over the top yet regular ) and their conversation about nothing ( especially star war ) and or their departure from their respective store to play hockey or whatnot . i can see that clerk . be to minimum wage earner a office space be to office worker . dante always a little timid when it come to deal with the unruly customer and but when randal take the stage and it a lot funny . although the part about veronica ( marilyn ghigliotti ) and cairlin ( lisa spoonhauer ) weren not that interest ( except for the 36. make that 37 people ) and they be necessary and and seem to create a plot out of this and basically and sketch comedy . it succeed and and turn it into a great all around film . most of these people have never act before and and although it do seem like theyre just recite their line ( there almost no break in between the dialogue ) and they do a good job at it . sometimes it seem a little too script ( for voice and diction and etc . ) and but for a bunch of first timer and it not bad at all . consider the rest of the series ( besides mallrats and which i haven not see ) and i would say clerk . be close with jay and silent bob strike back for the funny kevin smith movie . theyre also the two crudest and and the first and last in the series and respectively . but clerk . will always stay a it be when it be release 10 year ago revolutionary . it show that money and action aren not important to make a movie funny . my rating represent positive rat r for extensive use of extremely explicit sex relate dialogue .