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Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

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Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 190
Fresh: 124 | Rotten: 66

Zack and Miri Make a Porno is a modest success for Kevin Smith, due in large part to the charm of Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks.

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Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 20

Zack and Miri Make a Porno is a modest success for Kevin Smith, due in large part to the charm of Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks.

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Their debts mounting as their bank accounts dry up, longtime friends Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) plot to solve all their financial problems by making an adult film with movie geek appeal. Zack is a barista who doesn't make big tips, and Miri isn't exactly making top dollar either. Friends since grade school, they share a cramped apartment together, but the bills are piling up faster than their paychecks. Then, at their class reunion, the two friends meet up with a former

R, 1 hr. 41 min.

Drama, Romance, Comedy

Kevin Smith

Feb 3, 2009

$31.4M

The Weinstein Company

Cast

All Critics (190) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (128) | Rotten (69) | 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 Source: Film.com | Comment
Film.com
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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 Source: New Republic | Comment
New Republic
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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 Source: New Yorker | Comment
New Yorker
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Everyone on screen seems to be having so much fun.

October 31, 2008 Comment
Washington Post
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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 Source: Wall Street Journal | Comment
Wall Street Journal
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Zack and Miri isn't very funny. Laugh-out-loud bits here are as rare as real breasts in an adult film.

October 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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Smith's film is nothing more or less than a routine romantic comedy in an unaccustomed wrapper.

August 16, 2011 Full Review Source: East Bay Express | Comment
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 Source: Digital Spy | Comment
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 Source: Boston Phoenix | Comment
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 Source: NPR.org | Comment
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 Source: Matt's Movie Reviews | Comment
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 Source: Washington Times | Comment

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 Comment
Cinema em Cena

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

March 5, 2009 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Comment
7M Pictures

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

February 27, 2009 Full Review Source: Triple j | Comment
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 Source: MovieTime, ABC Radio National | Comment
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 Source: FILMINK (Australia) | Comment
FILMINK (Australia)

The most dirty-minded date movie of all time.

February 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph (Australia) | Comment
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 Source: Sydney Morning Herald | Comment
Sydney Morning Herald

A well-meaning, foul-mouthed misfire.

February 20, 2009 Full Review Source: The Age (Australia) | Comment (1)
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 Source: The Australian | Comment
The Australian

An R-rated film which is rude, crude and disgusting-- and yet strangely sweet and sentimental.

February 20, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies (Australia) | Comment
At the Movies (Australia)

It's crude and rude but there's something endearingly innocent about Kevin Smith's aptly titled comedy in which a dabble in porn becomes a mother of a funny set up

February 12, 2009 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

Doesn't represent much movement from where Smith had placed himself with Clerks II, which means what you felt about the previous should be about the same as what you'd feel about the latest.

February 12, 2009 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | Comment
Window to the Movies
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Audience Reviews for Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Considering what the movie's about there's an innocence to it. It isn't entirely an outrageous gross out comedy that breaks the proper entertainment barrier. The characters are entirely likable and the hilarious cast members like Craig Robinson prove that they can take on serious roles as well as comedic one's. Funny

January 2, 2012
Michael M.
Michael Miller

Super Reviewer

The premise is surprisingly naughty for Hollywood, even if this is a Kevin Smith film we are talking about. Two friends decide there is money to make with porn and get busy casting and preparing a big porn shooting. The first half of the film setting up this situation with the people they meet is actually really

November 9, 2008
ironclad1609

Super Reviewer

    1. Barry: I-want-to-slam-my-ham-in-your-can-wo-man. Scene.
    – Submitted by Fanchon G (38 days 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 (38 days ago)
    1. Mr. Surya: I hate both of you Ebony and Ivory mothafuckas! I TELL YOU!
    – Submitted by Fanchon G (38 days ago)
    1. Zack: We're gonna have a lot of fun, but more importantly we're gonna make a lot of money.
    – Submitted by Facebook U (2 months ago)
    1. Zack: Swallow my Cockaccino.
    – Submitted by José Maria A (8 months ago)

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