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Zack and Miri Make a Porno
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Mixed or average reviews
Based on 33 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama | Romance
Written by: Kevin Smith
Directed by: Kevin Smith
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 31, 2008
DVD: February 3, 2009
Running Time: 102 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R on appeal for strong crude sexual content including dialogue, graphic nudity and pervasive language
Starring Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Robinson, Traci Lords, Katie Morgan, Ricky Mabe, Jeff Anderson, and Jason Mewes
Lifelong friends and roommates Zack and Miri are facing hard times and a mountain of debt. When the electricity and plumbing get cut off, they seize upon the idea of making a homegrown porno movie for some quick cash, enlisting the help of their friends. The two vow that having sex will not ruin their friendship. But as filming begins, what started out as a business proposition between friends turns into something much more. (The Weinstein Company)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Smith gives the appearance of wanting to provoke, but along with his smuttiness, he wears his heart on his sleeve.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Zack and Miri has a bright, chipper look to it, thanks to cinematographer Dave Klein, a frequent Smith colleague. Wintertime in Pittsburgh never looked so good.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks make a lovable couple; she's pretty and goes one-for-one on the bleep language, and Rogen, how can I say this, is growing on me, the big lug.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Naughty and nice is a killer-hard combo to pull off. Stick with Rogen and Banks. They rock it.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
For two-thirds of its running length, Zack and Miri is vintage Smith - profane humor that knows no boundaries and obeys no rules. What's most amazing about Smith's barrage of hard-R jokes isn't the range of subjects he covers, but how few of them "miss."
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
The film is clumsily unfunny at times--particularly when Smith makes tone-deaf efforts at gay-and black-themed comedy--and it's occasionally gross just for the sake of being gross.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
Along with the awkward romantic exchanges that always seem to find their way into Smith's movies, there's also a sweetness that you don't often see in films that average multiple f-words per minute.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan
As in many of Smith's earlier movies, the moments of ostensibly genuine emotion aren't nearly as convincing as the moments of juvenile obscenity and quasi-homophobia.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
The funniest movie of Smith's I've seen. It's "When Harry Did Sally."
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Smith's funniest, sharpest and most polished movie to date. It also is his most mature and emotionally engaging picture, even if it happens to contain one of the grossest sight gags I've ever encountered in a mainstream Hollywood film.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The mainstream acceptance of porn has also disarmed Smith's formerly outrageous humor, though there's a warm "Boogie Nights"-style vibe to the little family of oddballs Zack and Miri recruit to help them.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
It would be too much to say that what Smith has come up with here is inspired, but it is pretty funny and very energetic.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Zack and Miri is funny, and Rogen is a natural as Smith's alter-ego, spewing profane dialogue like he was born to it.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Rudely silly rather than transgressively shocking, Zack and Miri is the sort of bawdy but fundamentally decent farce you could take Grandma to, provided Grandma were familiar with the oeuvre of Traci Lords.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Perry Seibert
Zack & Miri stand out as Kevin Smith's most thoroughly representative film -- both for better and for worse.
Read Full Review >Empire Simon Crook
Crude, hilarious, if a little corny, Smith's latest hardcore comedy is right on the money shot.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Despite shortcomings and implausibility linked to their roles as written, Rogen and Banks come off with surprising charm and grace.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
Romantic comedies often make do on flimsy premises, but this one is thinner than Kate Moss and nuttier than an Almond Joy.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
The movie's front-loaded with puerile, junior high humor (and, admittedly, several laugh out loud moments), which is fine, but all this still followed by an increasingly awkward and clichéd third act.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Robert Wilonsky
The biggest titters at a recent preview screening came during a scene in which Mewes shows off his dick--as though, at last! Still, how Jason Segal of him. Does Apatow always get there first?
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
This movie could have been an effervescent neo-screwball romance, "Bringing Up Baby" with nut-sack jokes. So there's no blaming the subject matter for the fact that Zack and Miri feels so dispiritingly graceless.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Neely Tucker
This was originally rated NC-17, and somehow, I'm thinking that version will survive on DVD.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Longs to be a smutty film with a heart of gold. Instead, it's a funny concept whose execution does not live up to its potential.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
By the halfway mark, Rogen's performance, like his voice, is less cuddly than grating, and the carbonated giggle that is Elizabeth Banks grows flat. This one's for the Smith cultists.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
In spite of its sometimes tiresome, sometimes amusing lewdness, follows a gee-whiz romantic-comedy formula that would not be out of place on the Disney Channel.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
The moments when "Z&M" works are, almost without exception, the ones that are more sweet than shocking. All the rest, frankly, feel like Apatow Lite.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Like a lot of things about Zack and Miri, the porn title feels like it's trying too hard.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
Kevin Smith turns out to be reverent after all: he wants to separate true love from mere copulating for money, but his story mixes romance and porn so inextricably that he seems confused, and the movie trips over its own conceits.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
A Smith production is always noisy, shambling, and liberally smutty on the outside while conservatively gooey on the inside.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
It's written and directed by Kevin Smith--and hats off to him for being savvy enough to go for a piece of the Apatow action! Too bad he doesn't rise to the occasion.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
The jokes are forced, almost mechanical, in their crudeness.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
It's really dumb, even though it starts promisingly and continues, in a self-infatuated way, to consider itself quite bright.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Smith appears to have poured his creative energy into the cheerful come-on of the title and left nothing in reserve for the movie. He fails to wring any memorable comedy from shoestring porno filmmakers because his own filmmaking is just as amateurish and slovenly.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.8 (out of 10) based on 91 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Lukasz C. gave it a6:
The film itself was funny as hell ... Yes it was . But the whole story seem more or less pointless . Yes it was about making a porno , but i would know how they want to live on , i mean they will be in the same problems because they wont have any money ... but oh well . I say its okay but not really as great as many try to tell here ... its just an average comedy.
Doogs T gave it a0:
No matter how lame the story, how bad the acting, how flat the writing dumb people are so great in numbers that this garbage will continue to be pumped out. This and Bride Wars are the worst films I have seen this year. Robert if "this is Kevin Smith's funniest and most intelligent comedy" then lets just bin the lot. Why is swearing and talking about bodily functions innately funny to these people? Are they mildly retarded?
Rhett C gave it a9:
Great Movie! I compare it to a romantic comedy but skewed to the guy side, highly. Boobs and cursing, sure, but a worthwhile story, indeed. This is truly a great movie, sex scenes may linger longer than needed, but it is “porno”, so just don’t watch it with your parents. Pretty Woman but for guys! Best Smith Flick!
Levente S gave it a0:
Unlikeable characters, a boring story, unfunny jokes, stupid gags, and artificial characters with forced admissions of what I laughingly call 'love' make this the worst movie I've seen in years, bar none.
Michelle S gave it a9:
Hilarious! I laughed... and laughed some more. Seth Rogen is so funny!! I was happy with the ending even though it was a bit predictable.
Jason E gave it an8:
This movie made me laugh, and was much better than expected.
Jeff K gave it a7:
The movie started out strong with the high comedy value, but went limp (pun intended) when the story went to a formulated jealousy love story. Rogan and Banks are great together and there are several laughs in the film. Justin Long was awesome. Very funny and great with his improv skills. Total 180 from the Mac guy.
