- I have a weird thing for Jason Mewes.
- Acockalips Now is a great porn title.
- I didn’t have huge expectations for this movie and so the first two thirds proved to be way funnier than I thought it would be.
- The last third nearly killed me, however. I can narrow down the exact moment, too: it’s when Zack confronts Miri when she’s supposed to be shooting her sex scene with another guy and he starts going on about how in their scene, they weren’t fucking, they were making love. WHAT. The whole time Seth Rogen was talking you knew what it was leading to and I just kept wishing and hoping he wasn’t going to say exactly what he ended up saying. I wanted to kill myself. In fact, I may have said to my friend “Please kill me now.” It’s like someone put up a road sign in the middle of the film that read “FOR SHLOCK, TURN RIGHT HERE” and they TURNED RIGHT THERE.
Audrey says that if you want to emasculate a guy, the best way to do it is by asking him what his favourite baby animal is. If you want to emasculate Seth Rogen, you just have him talk about “making love” in all sincerity.
A guy in our audience accurately reflected everyone’s feelings by promptly blowing a raspberry after this scene.
- It just went downhill from there in a way that makes me suspect that Kevin Smith may have borrowed Nicholas Sparks’ ovaries while filming this. It’s like Ben Affleck in Chasing Amy all over again and you just want to kick someone, anyone, in the groin and shout “GROW A PAIR!” Here you are, minding your own business, thinking that finally you get a rom-com that is also hilariously vulgar and not all saccharine and cavity-inducing and then WHAM! It’s all naked declarations of love through closed doors and gutless pining and Christ almighty, I don’t have time for this.
- It’s a chick flick. It’s a chick flick disguised as a hilarious slacker comedy and I feel deceived. If Julia Roberts and Richard Gere had shown up at the end, I would not have been surprised at all.
- It’s just… the movie didn’t need to end on that note. Zack and Miri could have gotten together without having to resort to such unabashed cheesy schmaltz. Like… is Debra Messing involved with this project somehow? Is she Smith’s script doctor?
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Watch out, Nora Ephron, Kevin Smith is trying to invade your territory.
IMDB Plot Synopsis Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.