I actually really disliked clerks 3, being such a fan of 1 & 2 with the more "day in the life" aspects and just how dark humored those films were. Clerks 3 felt like it was trying really hard to be funny with only a few moments landing and was too meta for a clerks movie

Of course, I absolutely loved Jay and silent bob reboot while many others hated it, but I feel the meta humor works better there as strikes back was already super meta before it, and reboot was actually continuously funny to me unlike clerks 3