It’s just possible that Kevin Smith is up to something more than just revisiting a hot property. The trailer of Clerks II can now be found, and when one considers the deliberately ugly cinematography, the moribund tone, and the terrible transition of the characters from clerks to fast food, this looks like it might be a scathing indictment of the service sector industry — perhaps a warning to thirtysomethings that they must take control of their lives before it’s too late. (via Ghost in the Machine)
Or the ugly cinematography wasn’t not deliberate but due to his lack of skills, and the film is actually an intentaional indictment of fat one-trick ponies who write crass, tin-eared dialogue and direct static scenes.