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Directed By
Kevin Smith
Written By:
Kevin Smith
Cast:
Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Traci Lords, Jason Mewes, Craig Robinson, Jeff Anderson, Tom Savini, Tyler Labine, Jim Norton, Eric Hollenbeck, Ivan Kraljevic, Mattt Potter, George Drennen, Mike O'Toole, Brenna Roth, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Ricky Mabe, Annie Kitral, Kyle Quinn, Stephen Mast, David Dale McCue, Mark Tierno, Katie Morgan, Gerry Bednob, Carl Clemons, Betty Aberlin, Anne Wade, Kenny Hotz, Rose Leininger, Carl Clemons
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
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Movie Review by Zara 
November 2nd, 2008
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I wish I could say that this was the movie which resurrected my faith in Kevin Smith, but I'll be honest with myself finally. There won't be a Kevin Smith film now or any time in the future which will undo the damage that selling out Randal did in CLERKS 2. I just can't get past it.
I also get annoyed with the insertion of his trophy wife in all of his projects. She's not good looking anymore (if she ever really was) and she can't act for sh*t. So that gets automatic deduction points from me right away.
I also don't like Smith's character constructions anymore. He's not to be trusted, kind of like I've had to learn the hard way with Stephen King. Both Smith and King will bring interesting characters to the story and either let you down in one of their signature ways. For King, it's creating a character you love and then callously killing them and abandoning their carefully constructed storyline.
For Smith, it's his need to have a boring introduction character to build the opportunity to introduce a really cool one. Justin Long is great in his smaller role in this film, as a gay porn actor whom Seth Rogen's character of Zack gets the idea to make a porno to solve he and best friend Miri's (Elizabeth Banks, who couldn't look more glowing) money woes.
The problem is that he attached Long to the f*cking boring and milquetoast bullsh*t excuse for an actor, Brandon Routh. I know that Smith probably wanted to work with Routh just to make up for the entertainment industry turning their back on him after being so rousingly disappointed in SUPERMAN RETURNS. But I don't think that if Routh was a worthwhile actor that the movie's bad reception would have kept him down. It's the fact that he's like a limp noodle on the screen that did. And no amount of Smith's forcing him down my throat will get me think otherwise.
Which leads me to my dismay with Smith as a whole. While the movie does have its funny moments and some infinitely quotable scenes (as all Smith movies do), it's the fact that his empire is built on the backs of the fanboy/girl demographic and yet he pisses on us every chance that he gets. Were it not for the nitpickers of the indie cinema, there would be no mansion, no career, no Playboy wife. And his blatant disrespect of his demographic makes him like an abusive parent. Sure, we all keep returning to his version of "love," because we just don't know any better anymore. And he just beats us for our efforts.
I am giving the movie as much credit as I can and I really tried to put aside my problems with what Smith has turned into. When I deduct his name from the project, I realized that this has its moments of dirty humour, but it is by no means a memorable movie event.
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 | Thom
Jan 7, 2009 9:22 PM
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| You need to go into therapy about the whole Randal thing. I feel like Garth in Wayne's world, "Stop torturing yourself! Live in the now!" |
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