Yoga Hosers (2016)

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	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy, Clerks 1-3)
	Actors: Natasha Lyonne, Johnny Depp (The Ninth Gate, Pirates of the Carribean), Harley Quinn Smith (Tusk)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Comedy, Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 07.07.2016, Theatre du Passage, NIFFF2016
Synopsis: Life is hard in Canada for the two Colettes, teenage BFF working part time in the convenient store of one of their fathers.
Review: Second movie after Tusk in Kevin Smith's True North trilogy, Yoga Hosers focuses on two teenage girls briefly encountered during the first movie and played by the respective daughters of Smith himself and of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, both also acting in the movie by the way. Note also small role for Genesis Rodriguez, Justin Long, Jason Mewes, Stan Lee, Haley Joel Osment and of course hilarious a Kevin Smith as the Bratwurst Nazis or Bratzis. The movie displays the usual Kevin Smith taste for dialogs, and what surprised me most is the way those dialogs are delivered: by the mouth of the teenagers but more importantly by their smartphones, accessories without which they literally cannot live. It seems to me that Smith has deliberately shot his movie in a way to speak to a younger audience, thus rendering it less interesting for people of my age, for whom Tusk was better. The movie relies on the insane idea of Canadians Nazis that exist this day as miniature versions made of sausage and live in the basement of a convenient store (for the fans, there is a nice placement of the cult quote from Clerks: "I was not even supposed to be here today"). But we actually don't get to see them very often and spend more time hearing about the day-to-day problems of teenage girls, fans of Yoga. I still appreciate watching Kevin Smith produce movies himself after being disappointed by Hollywood, and some moments in Yoga Hosers are excellent, but in general the movie didn't speak to me as some of his previous movies did. Anyway, I am looking forward to the closing movie of the Trilogy Moose Jaws due in 2017.
Rating: 5 /10