Clerks 2 - CRITIC FLEES 'SMUT' SCREENING

"DON'T joke about women, donkeys and bestiality if you expect Joel Siegel to watch your movie. That's what director Kevin Smith found out when the pun-loving 'Good Morning America' film critic stormed out of a press screening of Smith's 'Clerks II,' which opens Friday - an act that's sparked a vicious war of words between the two.

'Time to go!' roared Siegel to his fellow critics. 'First movie I've walked out of in 30 [bleeping] years!' His tirade came 40 minutes into the long-awaited Weinstein Company sequel to Smith's 1994 cult classic about two foul-mouthed Long Island convenience store clerks who razz customers and goof off.

In the scene that sent Siegel to the exit, the characters graphically discuss hiring a woman to perform sexual favors on a donkey. Siegel told Page Six: 'It was so foul and mean and repulsive. I finally realized I could not say anything positive . . . I wasn't ready for this kind of smut . . . I hope he doesn't make any more movies.'

An apoplectic Smith fired back on his MySpace blog: 'Getting a bad review from Siegel is like a badge of honor. This is the guy who stole his mustachioed-critic shtick from Gene Shalit years ago, and still refuses to give it back. This is a guy who seemingly prides himself on his own nyuk-nyuk wordplay. For 'Pirates 2,' he made us all titter with 'Yo, Ho, Ho and a Bottle of Fun' . . . He made us squeal with delight when he wrote, 'Wheelie Good Time for 'Cars.' ' I mean, Fozzy [bleeping] Bear laughs at this guy.'" (more) CRITIC FLEES 'SMUT' SCREENING - New York Post Online Edition: Gossip