Kevin Smith is mad

‘Good Morning America’ film critic Joel Siegel walked out of a Monday night press screening of ‘Clerks II’ just 40 minutes into the movie, telling others as he left:

“Time to go! First movie I’ve walked out of in 30 fucking years!”

Siegel later told Page Six:

“It was so foul and mean and repulsive. I finally realized I could not say anything positive … I wasn’t ready for this kind of smut … I hope he doesn’t make any more movies.”

And now ‘Clerks’ writer/director Kevin Smith has fired back on his myspace. Among the “highlights”:

“You’d imagine this would bother me, and yet, I’m delighted … I mean, it’s Joel Siegel, for Christ’s sake … getting a bad review from Siegel is like a badge of honor. This is the guy who stole his mustachioed critic shtick from Gene Shalit years ago, and still refuses to give it back. This is a guy who seemingly prides himself on being “punny” – that is, he likes to add his own nyuk-nyuk wordplay into the reviews he writes/gives. For “Pirates 2”, he made us all titter with “Yo, Ho, Ho and a Bottle of Fun”. For Pixar’s latest, he made us squeal with delight when he wrote “Wheelie Good Time for ‘Cars'”.”

Ummm, so, it just kind of goes on like that for a while. And it would be a much more scathing attack, except that Joel Siegel is probably funnier than Kevin Smith these days. Im sure if Siegel had a gooey chocolate center, Smith would fuckin love him. If you hate wordplay jokes so much Kevin, than why is your second dvd called ‘An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder’. Why do the posters for ‘Clerks II’ that your shilling on your myspace have taglines like: “Leading The War Against Counter Terrorism”. (Get it? Because they work behind a counter. Tee-hee, tee-hee.) Kevin attacks Siegel for loving the spotlight in a blog entry just above the one where he lists all of his interviews and promotional appearances. I assumed Kevins two favorite pastimes were eating cookie dough and sitting very still, but clearly they are promoting himself and being slightly less funny than a dead Christmas puppy.


Source = Page Six