After the immensely funny "Clerks" and an equally enjoyable follow up "Clerks 2" Kevin Smith comes back with a new movie "Zack and Miri make a Porno" starring foul mouthed Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks. Its no surprise that the movie is about two friends, Zack and Miri, who decides to make a porno to pay their bills and keep a roof over their head.

The plot is pretty simple. Zack, who is played by Seth Rogen, is a decent enough guy with minimal ambitions for his Life(its what Seth Rogen does best). Miri is his friend since 1st grade and his roommate. They got months of bills to be payed which is made clear by the huge heap of envelopes in a box labeled "Unpaid Bills" and an empty box labeled "Paid Bills". Eventually their debt catches up with them resulting in the disconnection of their water supply and electricity. When it becomes clear that to keep a roof above their head they need to make some money and fast, Zack suggests making a porno movie. What follows is what happens to the strictly platonic (or what they thought was platonic) relationship between Zack and Miri illustrated through a series of wildly comical and offensive antics by Zack, Miri and the crew they chose for shooting the porno.

One of the first film I saw of Kevin Smith, was Chasing Amy and I loved the movie with its mix of sweet romance and crude humor. At that time I have not even heard the name,Kevin Smith. He came to my attention with the film "Clerks" which I absolutely loved. I laughed so much that tears came to my eyes watching that. Smith didn't disappoint me with Clerks 2 either. And with this latest venture "Zack and Miri make a Porno" he has proved himself again. A great mix of soft hearted RomCom and offensive humor which actually makes you laugh. Smith loves to shock his audience using the four letter word and other obscenities. Roger Ebert put it rightly when he said

"This is sort of endearing. It gives his potty-mouth routines a certain freshness; we've heard these words over and over again, but never so many of them so closely jammed together. If you bleeped this movie for broadcast TV, it would sound like a conga line of Iron Men going through a metal detector"

Seth Rogen, whom I have begun to like with a series of great films, is in his own turf in this movie. He plays Zack the way only Seth Rogen can. When I first saw him in "40-year Old Virgin" I was actually offended by most of the things he said. Then I saw "Knocked Up" and began to tolerate his obscenities.With Super Bad I started to like the guy and by the time I finished seeing Pineapple Exress the guy has grown on me so much that I actually loved him and his brand of obscene humor. In "Zack and Miri make a Porno" he is classic Seth Rogen and I love it.

Elizabeth Banks(I just love to just look at her) also was excellent in the movie. She matched Seth Rogen in the "bleep language" and yet kept her charm intact. The chemistry between them is absolutely brilliant. It was so evident in the scene where they were supposed to do "it" in front of the camera for the porno and ended up making passionate love. Zack's friend and the producer of the porno, Delaney, also deserves a mention.

(Children and those who are easily offended skip this paragraph, or rather the whole movie)
Smith is an absolutely hilarious writer.Zack and Miri tries to come up with a name for their amateur porn and with hilarious results with names like Fuckback Mountain, Dawn of the Dick, and many others I can not even write here. For me the most funny one was Delaney's suggestion to sequels of "Star Whores", "The Revenge of the Shit - the full anal final chapter". In Smith's hands amateur porn is not sexy, but hilarious. With a lot of nudity(even male nudity which is the latest trend it seems) and foul language, the movie is not for the faint of heart, but for those who can overlook the obvious obscenities, you got a great movie underneath that.

My Verdict- "Zack and Miri makes a Porno" got many things straight right from the hilariously funny poster to a very satisfying movie but still lacked when it came to an ending. Smith is an absolutely hilarious writer and it can be seen all throughout the movie except for the last ten minutes or so. He succeeds in getting genuine laughs from most of his writing even though they are offensive. But I thought he was at a loss on how to end the movie after Zack storming out of the porno shoot. The ending seemed forced, somehow unsatisfying, or cliched. But the movie is very worth watching if you can forgive the director for the last few minutes. A great mix of soft hearted RomCom and offensive humor which actually makes you laugh.Smith is an absolutely hilarious writer.With a lot of nudity(even male nudity which is the latest trend it seems) and foul language, the movie is not for the faint of heart, but for those who can overlook the obvious obscenities, you got a great movie underneath that.



The hilariously funny movie poster is available to buy at Amazon


And the soundtrack top the movie is available at Amazon for those of who want it (I have not heard the soundtrack though a couple of tracks are good)