I haven’t seen much of Kevin Smith’s other work, but I will say that I agree with most of your criticisms. I was hoping for SOMETHING to make the love story aspect of the movie complex enough to redeem it a little bit, but it was straight up. As hard as he tried to make the general plot funny, it was the smaller moments (Justin Long’s scene, the “white supremacist” line towards the end, etc.) that had me laughing the most.

It definitely wasn’t my favorite movie, but I don’t regret watching it either.

So the best Kevin Smith movie, according to the n00ts, is Chasing Amy? I’ll have to check it out.