Zack and Miri Make a Porno Reviews
Top CriticIt's a slow-footed film that confirms that Smith may never be able to lift his game to that 40 Year Old Virgin level of heart and romance. He's just too juvenile to pull it off.
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| Original Score: 2/5
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.
Boxoffice Magazine
There's more yakking than screwing, and the result is flaccid and formulaic enough to remind you how mundane porn flicks are when physical stimulation gets taken out of the equation.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Slant Magazine
If the deed itself is sweet, leave it to Smith to fudge the foreplay and drag the afterglow.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Common Sense Media
Explicit Kevin Smith comedy isn't sexy or funny.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Despite all the waggish raunch-talk, it's just not especially funny. And despite all the agile intercourse (originally rated NC-17), it's frankly kind of a bore.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Matt's Movie Reviews
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.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
It's one thing for a movie to be dirty; it's another thing altogether for it to be plain sloppy.
Lessons of Darkness
A passably conventional rom-com squishfest decked out with Smith's usual pop-culture references.
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| Original Score: C+
NewsBlaze
More shocking than funny. Have our standards sunk this low?
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| Original Score: 1/4
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.
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| Original Score: 2/6
FILMINK (Australia)
While the jokes are admittedly very funny, they're constantly offset by a tumbling waterfall of schmaltz.
The Age (Australia)
A well-meaning, foul-mouthed misfire.
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| Original Score: 2/5
MovieTime, ABC Radio National
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.
Sin Magazine
The movie has all of the ingredients to be a great comedy, but Smith seems to be stuck and can't break free of his amateurish style.
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| Original Score: 2/4
BrianOrndorf.com
Miri is vacuous effort that never soars as high as the plot promises, and soon gives way to rushing flood waters of formula that Smith has always been more than ready to slap around before.
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| Original Score: C
NewsBlaze
Two porn stars and true romance on their, well, first date on camera, and a stud geek worried about man boobs. Kevin and Seth make a porno that may be too hardcore for the sexually squeamish and too mushy for porniacs.
Sydney Morning Herald
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.
ColeSmithey.com
Kevin Smith hasn't matured enough to actually make a good comedy, but he has accrued enough casting wisdom to elevate his latest homegrown material with the effervescent Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks.
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| Original Score: C
It's a funny concept whose execution does not live up to its potential.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Irish Times
