The biggest audience laugh at a recent showing came when a guy deadpanned, "This movie speaks for our generation." The sun can't set too soon on this Empire.

If Clerks were written by TV hacks, it might feel something like this.

It was never on the cards that Allan Moyle, the director of Pump Up the Volume, would deliver an authentic study of modern youth with his new film Empire Records. But the picture is barely even set on this planet, let alone in this era.

...a mostly watchable comedy that never quite becomes as engaging (or memorable) as one might’ve hoped...