Sold Out: A Threevening With Kevin Smith

Sold Out: A Threevening With Kevin Smith
by Joey Figueroa, Zak Knutson

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Actor: Grace Smith, Harley Quinn Smith, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Kevin Smith
Director: Joey Figueroa, Zak Knutson
Cinematographer: Yordi Martinez
Producer: Joey Figueroa
Editor: Zak Knutson
Producer: Zak Knutson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Weinstein Company

DVD Reviews of Sold Out: A Threevening With Kevin Smith

DVD Review: Almost as good as the first one
Summary: 5 Stars

I am a big Kevin Smith fan, and the first Evening with Kevin Smith is my favorite work by the guy by far. I prefer it to his movies (which, have gotten crappier and crappier recently...blasphemy, I know!). I think the second EWKS was a step down, but this one is almost right up there with his first. It's absolutely hilarious and I highly recommend it.

If you're not a Smith fan, I don't know why you would even be reading reviews for this. However, if you somehow are, let me say if you don't mind a lot of profanity and graphic descriptions of sex acts then you will find this hilarious even if you aren't familiar with his work, or if you think he sucks. If you don't like profanity, then again...I don't know what you're doing reading reviews about Kevin Smith material.

I've read some reviews complain that some of the material he goes over they've already heard on his website, or that it just sounds like he's doing a stand up routine. HE IS DOING A STAND UP ROUTINE! Of course he directs the questions towards stories he can tell (and that he's fine-tuned). That's how a comedian works. I know he's not exactly a stand up comedian, but for all intents and purposes here...he is! Comedians will work on material for months or even years before they are completely happy with it. Then, the good ones take the jokes they've been cultivating and put it on a DVD. That's all Smith is doing here, and it works. You may have heard some of this stuff on a Smodcast, but it's still great to have it all in one DVD to rewatch whenever you want. There's so much good stuff on here that even if you don't like a story or two, you're bound to laugh out loud dozens of times.

And that brings me to the length. People actually complain about the length of the thing? It's not a movie where you have to watch the whole thing from beginning to end to get the entire experience. Just watch it in hour long pieces if you need to. It's great to have something you can rely on for a few laughs even if you only have a half hour.

Keep them coming, Mr. Smith!

DVD Review: Great Product, Great Shipping
Summary: 5 Stars

The product was as stated and it arrived in a timely matter. I would purchase again from this seller.

DVD Review: Okay, But I've Heard It All Before
Summary: 3 Stars

I am a big fan of Kevin Smith's work. His films, for the best part, have been highly entertaining and hilarious. I also really enjoyed Kevin's My Boring [...] Life book and his subsequent live shows. More to the point though- I am a fan of Kevin's Smodcast, which for those that don't know is a free podcast and is now nearly 100 episodes old. With each episode being roughly an hour long, that is a helluva lot of Kevin. And therein lies the problem- A lot of these anecdotes have already been told, both on that show and in blogs. With Kevin now releasing a new book, culled from the best bits of Smodcast. That means that you may well have heard some of these stories up to four times including this DVD. First Kevin tells an anecdote about his dogs which goes on for the best part of an hour. That's right- THE BEST PART OF AN HOUR. And to be honest, it really wasn't that funny- oh, and he'd already done it on the aforementioned Smodcast.

See, the biggest problem for me here is that the Q and A portion of the show is basically non-existent now. Barely any questions from the audience get a straight response. Instead what Kevin does is twist it in order to do another pre-prepared piece. Why he doesn't just tell the audience to sit down I don't know. The majority of those lining up to ask a question were stood up for HOURS. And they still didn't get their questions answered.

There is some good stuff here, mostly on the second disc. The Bruce Willis bit is very interesting, though it is taken nearly word-for-word from Kevin's book My Boring [...] Life, which took the story directly from one of Kevin's previous blogs. It just makes me wonder what happened to Kevin somewhat fiercely attacking some of those big Hollywood names? This isn't dreadful, and if you have never heard Smodcast or read any of this guy's blogs, you will be highly amused, in parts. But for the rest of us- well, maybe Kevin just need to shut up for a little bit.

DVD Review: Just watch his next movie
Summary: 2 Stars

First of all let me get this out. I love almost all of Kevin Smiths movies. I think he is a great writter/director and really funny guy. Now to the bashing on this DVD. The first one was great, the second one was good if you never saw Clerks 2, this third one however was just plain awfull. In the total of almost 4 hours he answers only 6 maybe 8 questions. When another reviewer said that it seems the answers were planned I couldnt agree more. I give Kevin props for taking any question someone threw at him "if it was a random question from a random person or someone who knew what to ask in order to get on the dvd" and manipulate the answer in order to bring out an already rehearsed monologue. What an Evening has become to me is a practice round for some funny jokes in order to get the reaction of the crowd to see if its funny enough to be entered in his next movie. For example on the first Evening w/K.S. someone asks him if he would ever put something from the Q&As to a movie and he says no everyone hear has already heard that joke (talking about his open sore dick in his wifes battery acid vag), then on Evening 2 he does the whole Lord of the Rings joke and later sure enough it ends on Clerks 2. Do not be surprised when you watch this movie that the jokes wont be included in his next project. If you feel like spending 14 bucks and like Kevin Smith this movie aint bad enough to have as background noise while doing something else. Otherwise save your money and watch the shorten jokes on his next flick.

DVD Review: Good
Summary: 4 Stars

If you enjoyed the other evening with Kevin Smith DVDs you'll enjoy this one. Kevin Smith is great at telling a story and he'd really funny here.

Description of Sold Out: A Threevening With Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith -- America's coolest geek philosopher and director of Clerks I & II and Zack and Miri Make a Porno -- is back: celebrating his 37th birthday in a hilarious take-no-prisoners performance in front of a packed hometown crowd. Join the fun as Smith reveals the hysterical true stories behind the making of Clerks II and Live Free or Die Hard, the inside scoop on Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Jason Mewes... plus Weird Doggy Love and The Jury Duty from Hemorrhoid Hell. Sold Out: A Threevening with Kevin Smith has 3x the raunch, 3x the hilarity, and 3x the charm!

To celebrate his 37th birthday, Kevin Smith took to the stage. Anyone else might've thrown a party, but the man who bankrolled Clerks with maxed-out credit cards has never been one to follow convention. Filmed in his native New Jersey, A Threevening features jokes, stories, and questions from the audience. Instead of a suit, Smith's apparel consists of long shorts, checkered sneakers, and a sweat-inducing overcoat (hence, the pile of towels to wipe his face). It may sound like the ingredients for a stand-up routine, except he wrings more humor from biographical incidents than pre-written punch lines. Aside from the movies with which he's been involved, like Clerks II and Live Free or Die Hard, he relates the history of Saint Kevin, a delicate medical dilemma, and the sexual proclivities of dogs Shecky, Mulder, and Skully. Naturally, there's name-dropping--Harvey Weinstein, Hayden Christensen, Bruce Willis, etc.--and more profanity than a Richard Pryor record, but Smith's appeal lies in his honesty and humility. When he says, "Throw a rock, you'll hit a better filmmaker than me," he's calling it as he sees it; not asking for pity or praise. And if he has little patience for the "whiny" and "emo," as he describes Superman Returns, he's just as generous with the praise, describing favorite flicks, like Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, as "pimp." The Q&A continues in the deleted scenes, in which the director sets the record straight about a rumored Dogma sequel and the Clerks sitcom. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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