Smoreni Zmaj
I don't know how objective I'm capable to be when it comes to Kevin Smith movies, but to me this was awesome. Essentially, this is classic romance comedy, but wrapped in completely unusual package. Politically incorrect, vulgar, perverse, and most of all fun. I'm sorry I didn't see it back when it was released, cause I would know it by heart by now. Roommates and best friends since childhood, Zack and Miri, have seemingly hopeless financial troubles, so they decide to get back on their feet by making a porno. If I still didn't persuade you to see this flick, I will just say that lead roles in their porno, beside of course themselves, play Jason Mewes, Katie Morgan and Traci Lords. Now, if you have no idea who are at least some of the legends I mentioned above, then you shouldn't watch this movie and feel free to continue living under your puritan rock. :P9/10
Dave
This is a comedy film about a very attractive young woman, Miri (played by Elizabeth Banks), and an unattractive, overweight young man, Zack (played by Seth Rogen). They are friends who live in poverty in a flat in Pennsylvania. They decide to make a porn film.The plot is implausible. There's no way that an articulate, hot girl would want anything to do with an unattractive, overweight, coarse idiot - let alone choose to live in poverty with him. For them to then have sex on film - when they've never been sexually attracted to each other - stretches the ridiculous plot further. They then push things even further into the unbelievable by falling in love with each other and marrying. The backstory is ridiculous. We're supposed to believe that hot Miri has never been popular and that very unappealing Zack has never been attracted to her throughout the years that they've been best friends. Early in the film, Zack and Miri attend their high school reunion. This is implausible due to the fact that unpopular, unsuccessful people don't go to their school reunions. Zack and Miri aren't believable as friends, flatmates, porn co-stars or as a couple. The film starts off as a sex comedy, but later makes a preposterous and uncomfortable jolt into being a romantic drama. This is an 18 certificate in the UK, but the humour is so blunt and juvenile that it's not going to appeal to many adults.
sol-
Desperate to raise enough money to pay their mounting bills and rent, two platonic flatmates decide to film and star in a homemade pornographic movie, but things get complicated when they realise that they might really love each other in this lively Kevin Smith comedy. As usual, Smith litters the film with entertaining supporting characters, with Jason Mewes particularly interesting, repressing his Jay mannerisms to play an uninhibited amateur porn actor, and Justin Long as a gay professional in the business has rarely been funnier. Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks also make for likable leads, however, the overall film comes off as a notch below Smith's par. Predictability is a key issue here as it is telegraphed from very early on that the protagonists will realise that they love each other and get jealous on set. More detrimental though is the way Smith allows sentimentality to overtake his penchant for quirky humour. Sentiment is not uncommon in Smith films; 'Mallrats' and 'Chasing Amy' (arguably his best movies) have sentiment in spades, but in both cases, it is squeezed in and around the kooky supporting characters and raunchy jokes. Here, the plot seems to halt whenever Rogen and Banks reassess their feelings for one another. Never to mind, 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno' has far more highs than lows. The makeshift movie studios, non-professional costumes and boom mike incidents are funny, the 'Star Wars' referencing is a lot of fun and the zany extras in the middle of the end credits ensure the film ends on a strong note.
SnoopyStyle
Miri (Elizabeth Banks) and Zack (Seth Rogen) are lifelong loser friends in the Pittsburgh outer burbs. They're broke and the water is shut off. At the high school reunion, Miri tries to hook up with school crush Bobby Long (Brandon Routh) but his gay boyfriend Brandon St. Randy (Justin Long) tells Zack that they're gay porn stars. A couple of teens secretly filmed Miri in her granny pantie and the video goes viral. Zack and a reluctant Miri agrees to make a porno with friends like Delaney (Craig Robinson) to make some money.It's raunchy vulgarity going further than Apatow. Kevin Smith is trying to hit a narrow target of sweet rom-com and raunchy sex romp. The best parts are the great comic actors Banks, Rogen and the rest of the cast. Although, it's hard to see Banks as a loser. Maybe she needs to be smoking lots of pot to fit the role. Rogen fits the lovable loser role like a glove. There are some awkwardness with the subject matter although the porn video names are funny.
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