An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder

Kevin Smith. When you hear that name, you think of Jay and Slient Bob, Dante and Randall, Holden and Alissa, Mooby's and the Quik Stop.

With Evening Harder, you're not disappointed. Smith takes us on a roller-coaster ride of sexual innuendos, rapid-fire wisecracks, and riffs on Tim Horton's, writer's block, and organized religion.

Guest shots by Jason Mewes, a special delivery of Timbits from an audience member, and Smith's take on how *he* would have written the Passion of the Christ round out just *one* disc of pure Kevin Smith gold.

Parents beware: this is *not* for the kids, nor is it for anyone that can't stomach a good solid dig at religion.

If you love Kevin Smith movies and the man's wit and also if you need your sequel to Evening With Kevin Smith (2002), which contains some of the best Q and A answers, than this new DVD is a must have.

Kevin smith continues his Q and A session over in Toronto Canada and England and the same irreverent humor is still there with many satirical outlook about many of his experiences in the Hollywood media machine and to his daily life which I can sum up as GOOD CRUDE.

A non-stop 4hr geek-fest for the die hard Smitty's fans and also to people whom love to listen to god awful truth about everything in the movie industries and anything else.

Kevin Smith goes to Toronto. He praises Canada (but he's not pandering). He talks about Tim Horton, his family, a lot of dick jokes, throwing an election, revisiting Prince, Gibson's Passion of Christ and whatever off the top of his head. He supports Affleck who was getting bashed at the time. Jason Mewes does Half, Half, Whole which brings the place down.

In London, he's in a more intimate space. He starts off railing against some bad press from The 3M Girls after Jersey Girl. There is less drug humor and a little hesitation with the language differences. It's more hit and miss compared to Toronto. The crowd is older and not the college crowd that he gets back in America.

The Toronto show is very much in line with the first "An Evening with Kevin Smith". It's rowdy and no holds barred. The London show is more mixed. It has the young wild college kids but even they run more towards film fans. I would bet that the percentage of marijuana smokers is much lower in London. London has more slow spots but it's still quite fascinating. The language problem does get a little tiresome but I don't blame anybody for that.

J.M. Kenny's follow-up to the best-selling AN EVENING WITH KEVIN SMITH DVD, AN EVENING WITH KEVIN SMITH 2 feels very much like a sequel: repetitious and not nearly as good as the original. The specialness of the first 'Evening' is gone, this time Smith's antics on stage aren't as amusing, most of his stories, unengaged, and the audience a bit less than thrilled. There are some decent nuggets of information here and there, Smith's thoughts on the X-Men trilogy and other movies in general, showing Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back to his child, and dealing with writer's block, but the questions asked make one wonder what type of substances the audience members were under while watching the Q&A sessions. To be honest, I found myself fast-forwarding through a fair portion of the disc. Hardcore Smith fans be warned, this is the least entertaining of anything Smith has ever done.

An Evening with Kevin Smith was able to show how quick witted Kevin Smith was, and it revealed to me how funny he actually was. That was a really enjoyable DVD. An Evening with Kevin Smith 2 is still good I think, despite the Toronto DVD being a little weak, although there is still enough funny material (Kevin's ideal view of his father...) in it to make it worth watching. The London DVD is definitely worth seeing though, as that is where the audience members don't bring down the show as much with stupid annoying questions, which I think allows Kevin Smith be able to respond with more wit, and comical answers to his questions. And when he goes off on the LOTR trilogy, its hilarious. Any Kevin Smith fan should check this out, as it still made me laugh enough to enjoy this DVD for the most part.