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They all might be a little older now, but the cast of Kevin Smith’s Clerks have got together for Clerks 2, coming to a cinema near you soon. As if that weren’t enough, most of the cast of My Name is Earl is joining them, including Jason Lee (complete with moustache), who appeared in Smith’s under-rated Mallrats and over-rated Dogma.

Now, there’s an official trailer on the Apple web site (QuickTime required), that frankly isn’t very funny. I was a bit despondent after watching it: although there’s an hilariously disturbing riff on Silence of the Lambs, most of the rest of it sucks.

Fortunately, there are other Internet-exclusive trailers available on YouTube that I heartily recommend you watch instead, even though the vid quality’s lower.

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We hold certain truths to be self-evident: Mick Fleetwood and Sam Fox must never host another Brits; Kelly Brook must never be asked to read an autocue again; and the one thing you should never ever do is remake the Pink Panther. We do so because we know, with every fibre of our being, exactly how’s it going to turn out before it’s even started in each of these scenarios. Look what happened when Steve Martin did the unthinkable? He remade the Pink Panther and it was rubbish. We knew it would be from the first moment we heard about it.

But now someone’s thought the even more unthinkable. How about not just one but two sequels to that remake? Sacre bleu! How can they not see what’s going to happen next?!