Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2-Disc Edition) |  | Director: Kevin Smith
Actors: Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Robinson, Gerry Bednob, Jason Mewes
Studio: Weinstein Company
Category: DVD
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Rating:  112 reviews
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Format: Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WEID1000299D
UPC: 796019819305
EAN: 0796019819305
ASIN: B001MEJYAU
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: February 3, 2009
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Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 02/03/2009 Run time: 101 minutes Rating: R
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Fans of writer/director Kevin Smith (auteur of Dogma and Chasing Amy) should run to see Zack and Miri Make a Porno--the adored filmmaker has clearly made this with his hardcore following in mind. Zack (Seth Rogen, Knocked Up) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks, Slither) are longtime friends and housemates who, after their power and water get shut off, turn to pornography to pay their bills. After assembling a cheerful and perhaps dimwitted cast and crew, the hapless pair launch into their cynical yet heartwarming scheme with enthusiasm, only to discover--spoiler alert!--that they have feelings for each other. Smith clearly wanted to make a sex comedy with heart, something in the vein of The 40 Year Old Virgin.Unfortunately, Zack and Miri Make a Porno combines the mawkish, formulaic sentimentality of Jersey Girl with the belabored, formulaic sex gags of Clerks II. For a movie that clearly hearkens back to Smith's own experiences making the beloved and archetypally cheap-and-dirty Clerks, Zack and Miri Make a Porno is sadly generic and predictable. But Smith's fanbase will appreciate that the movie has snarky jokes about science fiction, a good dose of bare breasts (and two actual porn stars, Traci Lords and Katie Morgan), and the schlubby guy/hot chick dynamic that drives a thousand sitcoms. --Bret Fetzer
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 Excelent adult flick for good humored viewers! January 30, 2010
John Pigpen (Chicago, IL USA)
This movie is great for anyone who enjoys a little adult humor, and likes view askew productions. Hilarious movie!!!
 Really funny movie don't let the title scare you January 27, 2010
D. Ezzio (Kentucky)
This movie was a very big surprise for me. I expected to hate it based on reviews I had read. But I found it to be really funny. And you are totally missing out on some of the funniest stuff if you skip the deleted scenes.
Zack and Miri Make A Porno January 18, 2010
Jason C. Wilkerson (Green Bay, WI)
Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) are in trouble. Living together as platonic friends, the two are months behind in their bills, and they find their electric and water shut off the day before Thanksgiving. After their high school reunion they find themselves contemplating what they're next move is going to be when Zack mentions they should make a porno to advertise to their high school e-mail list. Originally, they get a group of friends, strippers, and others to create a movie, but when the place they were planning to shoot is torn down, they revise they're plan and shoot their movie at Zack's workplace; Bean and Gone. Things become even further complicated when feelings surface between Zack and Miri that they had never voiced before.
Before Judd Apatow became the king of dirty but sweet comedies, there was Kevin Smith. Kevin Smith has accomplished what many amateur filmmakers dream of accomplishing. In 1993 he filmed Clerks on a shoestring budget of $27,000 by selling his comic book collection and maxing out several credit cards. The film gained some big name fans, went to Cannes and was subsequently bought by Miramax for distribution. Since then Kevin Smith has directed eight movies (and is currently shooting the movie Cop Out with Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan), assisted in writing several others, produced even more, and has helped launch careers including Jason Lee's acting career and was an integral part of getting Good Will Hunting made. On top of that he has a rabid fanbase and three DVD's in his An Evening With Kevin Smith series, which if you have not seen them I highly suggest you check those out as even the most rabid members of his fan base will tell you they're funnier than his movies. The recent explosion of Seth Rogen's career in the profanely sweet movies of Judd Apatow foreshadowed the eventuality of a pairing between Smith and Rogen, the surprise is that it didn't happen sooner (especially considering that Smith is the reason that Rogen wanted to get into movies). With Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Kevin Smith takes only his second stab at leaving behind the Askewniverse (the name given to the fact that six of his movies are interconnected within the same universe) after Jersey Girl. Does Zack and Miri fare better than Jersey Girl?
While I was one of the few who actually enjoyed Jersey Girl, Zack and Miri definitely fares much better. Aided by Smith's return to the Askewniverse in Clerks 2, Smith found what he was missing in Jersey Girl that everyone loved in his previous movies: his unique voice. The dialogue here is sharper and sweeter than anything he's written since Chasing Amy, and even with the material dealing with pornography can still appeal to a broad audience thanks to Smith's writing. Smith is also known as a director lacking in visual style, but with Zack and Miri you can really tell that smith is starting to develop his style, probably thanks in part to his recent work in directing the pilot for Reaper. By drawing on his own personal story to create this movie he creates a movie that is original, familiar, and hilarious.
Compared to other Kevin Smith films you'll notice that the acting is much better than his previous movies. This isn't a slight on his previous movies, all of which I loved, but he used a lot of amateur actors and friends to make his previous movies. Now he's got more star power behind his movie. With the appearance of Seth Rogen (Knocked Up, Funny People, 40 Year-Old-Virgin), Elizabeth Banks (W., Role Models, Definitely Maybe), Craig Robinson (The Office, Pineapple Express, Knocked Up), and even Tom Savini (Dawn of the Dead, From Dusk Till Dawn, Grindhouse: Planet Terror), Kevin Smith's new film is powered a lot more by big name actors. That doesn't mean that he's forgotten about his friends as his wife Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, his heterosexual life mate Jason Mewes, and Clerks' Jeff Anderson among others who appear throughout the movie.
I honestly can't think of anything wrong with this movie. I'm a member of that rabid fan base I spoke of before, and I list this as favorite Kevin Smith film (even though I'm sure others in that fan base would call me a heretic for saying so). If you like Kevin Smith films, romantic comedies (but don't mind the dirty side), or Judd Apatow films I highly recommend this film. But, of course, when you have a film with the word Porno in the title you might want to watch who you watch it around. There's full frontal male and female nudity as well as lots of sex, most of it extremely cartoonish, but it's sex none-the-less. And that's not even getting into the language of the film, or the legendary crap shot (trying to keep this family friendly, even if I am talking about a movie about making a porn). This movie won't be for everybody, but for the rest of us, it's absolutely hilarious!
5/5
 Smith can do better than that. January 4, 2010
R. Robinson (N.C. by way of TX)
Hmmm. It seems as if Kevin smith has finally made a "me too" movie now. This movie is made in a way very similar to Apatow's style. Smith is funnier than Apatow but Apatow may be the slightly better story teller; albeit not a very original one. I want to make this 4 stars because funny comedies are hard to come by and this is a funny movie. However the "artistic sensitivities" used for this movie destroy it. I expected the language (Smith failed to use his expletives as witty as he has in the past, here they are more casual), I was a little surprised by the soft porn, but it was the graphic nudity that I thought unnecessary. Kevin, this sort of stuff is not shocking anymore nor is it funny, its more annoying (everyone is doing it). I suppose if I were a 12 or 16 year old viewer this sort of thing would be shocking and have some value as word of mouth advertising. Is the gratuitous nudity in this film just a gimmick? Yes, I think so. Ultimately, because I thought much of the dialogue was weak I rate this movie 3 stars. I still recommend it to fans of comedy (even if it is a bit childish).
MAD PROPS for casting Craig Robinson "Delany", he and Luis Guzman have some of the strongest comedic presences on the movie screen but yet don't get much work. Maybe one day they will be featured in a movie together. They could even be half brothers in it, notice a similarity?
Funny December 30, 2009
Nicole Vaeth (Reno, NV)
This movie is hillarious! Viewer descretion, however, is definitely advised!!! Don't wath this with your parents or your kids (very raunchy but funny!)
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