An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder
by J.M. Kenny
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Actor: Kevin SmithDirector: J.M. Kenny
Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.78:1
Running Time: 239 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder
DVD Review: Hysterical and importantly, honest
Summary: 4 Stars
I remember watching the film Batman Returns with the commentary by Tim Burton once. Such a great looking, stylized film and the commentary was filled with so many "you know"'s and "uh"'s that you can tell at times that most of his genius is in his head and not actually telling you how he does it. Kevin Smith, while not the greatest visual director and even he will tell you so, has a whole lot to say and in between bouts of slight frustration with the guy, it's really quite interesting to just hear the guy talk about everything.
Disc I is probably my least favorite one, with a Q&A he did in Toronto. Granted Smith does what he does, and well, the only problem is despite an enthusiastic audience, they ask some of the most inane questions that Smith can't do anything with. Or at times they go on and on and you're like "be quiet and give the mic to someone else". Some stories are interesting such as his fascination for Dora the Explorer and his power trip when he became Student Council President. His daughter Harley introduces the show and Jason Mewes and Smith's wife Jen shows up as well. Again, it's a show that has its occasional funny parts (ninjas in Passion of the Christ?) but the audience severely slowed the pace.
What should be your first trip going in is the show he did in London. Some of the stories he tells are fascinating such as shooting his wife for a Playboy shoot, as well as his daughter's fascination with the word ****(the s one) and her eventual horror as to what it actually means. Not to mention a raunchy alternate idea he would have to close Return of the King. Don't think that pace-killing audience members stayed in Canada either. The most inane question is asked ("if you were half man half sausage, which half would you be?") and much time is spent on a woman who asks about sex euphemisms not because she's a total blonde, well that too, but Smith couldn't even hear her at times. More consistently funny than Toronto, this is the better show of the 2.
That "frustration" I mentioned earlier? Well I guess the writer/director of Mallrats and Chasing Amy is just who he is, as he says in the show, but the excessive potty humor doesn't really derail the film so much as it makes you wish he would skip the excessive jokes about male oral sex and do intelligent monologues like during the show. And like Tim Burton with his "ya know?", Smith loves saying "and s***". Take a drink when he says it and you'll be on the floor before he leaves the stage.
I haven't seen the first one so I can't compare it but as it is, it is a funny and intimate look at a director known more for his words than anything else...except for being a fat guy, as he says.
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