Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

All Critics (195) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (130) | Rotten (70) | DVD (16)

All in all it's a modern-day, Kevin Smith fairytale: a big-screen bearing, perhaps, of his soul at its sincerest and wittiest, if not filthiest.

May 6, 2011 Full Review

Christine Champ

Film.com

Top Critic

Smith may have pioneered this kind of upfront sex chat, but the Apatow team refined it. 'Zack and Miri' feels uncomfortably like a gruesome game of filth-talk oneupmanship, and it's hard to care who comes out on top.

November 14, 2008 Full Review

Tom Huddlestone

Time Out

Top Critic

It's one thing for a movie to be dirty; it's another thing altogether for it to be plain sloppy.

November 3, 2008 Full Review

Christopher Orr

The New Republic

Top Critic

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.

November 3, 2008 Full Review

David Denby

New Yorker

Top Critic

Everyone on screen seems to be having so much fun.

October 31, 2008

Neely Tucker

Washington Post

Top Critic

Seth Rogen is totally out of control. He's been marvelously funny in the past, and will be again, but get that party animal back in his cage.

October 31, 2008 Full Review

Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

Top Critic

Some may tire of Smith's template of toilet humour and tits, but to others, those very same qualities are a guarantee of entertainment. Love him or hate him, Kevin Smith isn't afraid to hit new lows to get new laughs.

October 14, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

Smith's film is nothing more or less than a routine romantic comedy in an unaccustomed wrapper.

August 16, 2011 Full Review

Kelly Vance

East Bay Express

Kevin Smith's latest offering provides a constant stream of laughs throughout its duration, but crucially fails to nail the emotional realism it tries so hard to achieve.

July 14, 2011 Full Review

Ben Rawson-Jones

Digital Spy

Kevin Smith's ear for raunch is as piquant as ever, but he's moved beyond his usual unconvincing leads to Judd Apatow regulars Rogen and Craig Robinson.

July 6, 2010 Full Review

Brett Michel

Boston Phoenix

Married, a father and pushing 40, Smith is no longer a trustworthy chronicler of 20-something slackers. He still can devise an impressively gamy set piece, but he's misplaced the humanity of his best work.

July 6, 2010 Full Review

Mark Jenkins

NPR.org

Kevin Smith has placed a black mark on an otherwise solid filmography by selling himself short in a bid to shock new viewers and win back old ones with Zack and Miri Make a Porno.

July 6, 2010 Full Review

Matthew Pejkovic

Matt's Movie Reviews

There are a number of gut-bustingly funny individual scenes, but the narrative as a whole lacks thematic cohesion.

August 30, 2009 Full Review

Sonny Bunch

Washington Times

Ainda que Smith continue a exibir sua compulsão em escrever diálogos que usam a escatologia e os palavrões como forma barata (e ineficaz) de humor, o filme é um grande avanço em relação aos seus três últimos péssimos trabalhos.

March 25, 2009

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

The raunchy moments in this movie is what make it good.

March 5, 2009 Full Review

Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

Zack and Miri may be a gross-out movie, but it's a damn clever one.

February 27, 2009 Full Review

Marc Fennell

Triple J

This explicit gross-out comedy is so scared of being too naughty, it seeks refuge in a very 'nice' love story. The result isn't funny or edgy.

February 20, 2009 Full Review

Jason Di Rosso

MovieTime, ABC Radio National

While the jokes are admittedly very funny, they're constantly offset by a tumbling waterfall of schmaltz.

February 20, 2009 Full Review

Erin Free

FILMINK (Australia)

The most dirty-minded date movie of all time.

February 20, 2009 Full Review

Leigh Paatsch

Daily Telegraph (Australia)

There remain some scatological touches I am still trying to forget. It's all done with great glee, yet falls far short of being hilarious.

February 20, 2009 Full Review

Sandra Hall

Sydney Morning Herald

A well-meaning, foul-mouthed misfire.

February 20, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Jim Schembri

The Age (Australia)

In a strangely perverse way -- and thanks to the solid performances of the two leads -- the love story of Zack and Miri is more touching than you might expect, given the film's grungy setting and essentially sordid theme.

February 20, 2009 Full Review

David Stratton

The Australian

• 1. Zack Brown: Ziggy? Is that even in fucking papers anymore? No, man.
  2. Delaney: Fuck you, Ziggy's a comic. It's right next to Family Circus.
  3. Zack Brown: No, I mean.. Spider-Man and shit.
  – Submitted by Magnus G (5 months ago)
• 1. Zack: Miriam Linky, will you have sex with me on camera for money?
  – Submitted by Zaenal A (11 months ago)
• 1. Zack: You give me a two popsicle sticks and a rubber band and I'll find a way to fuck it like a filthy MacGyver.
  – Submitted by topher h (13 months ago)
• 1. Barry: I-want-to-slam-my-ham-in-your-can-wo-man. Scene.
  – Submitted by Fanchon G (16 months ago)
• 1. Zack: Brandon is the star of such adult fare as... what was it?
  2. Brandon: You better shut your mouth before I fuck it.
  – Submitted by Fanchon G (16 months ago)
• 1. Mr. Surya: I hate both of you Ebony and Ivory mothafuckas! I TELL YOU!
  – Submitted by Fanchon G (16 months ago)

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