Zack and Miri Make a Porno

This entire article is bias and should be taken with a grain of salt, because in truth I am a die-hard Kevin Smith fanboy. I always have been since I saw Clerks. The man is my kind of people: comic book writer, story teller, movie director, movie enthusiast. So I went in to this knowing, full well, that I would not only be entertained but that I would write a very praising blog about it. This has been your disclaimer.

Zack and Miri begins with two people, I'll let you guess their names, that work dead-end jobs, have a crappy house, trouble paying bills, and spend a lot of their time wasting money on Amazon and playing Hockey. These people have known each other for a long time, since High School I believe, and so their friendship is the sort of platonic relationship that begins a lot of Smith's movies and makes the romance that develops oddly sweet.

                                                      "Fun, for the whole Family."

After a miserable High School reunion the apartment's electricity is turned off. Inspired by both the cultural mainstreaming of porn and the successful viral video that a coffee shop patron shot of Miri in a state of undress in her quote un-quote Granny Panties, Zack convinces Miri to film a pornographic movie together to make money. Now I'm not going to lie, this is a dirty movie. The jokes are crude, the concept is perverse, but its an R rated movie, its for Grown-ups.  In fact, there was a little bit of a scandal surrounding the film in which they had to fight for an R rating when the MPAA tried to give it a NC-17. Smith appealed the rating, hoping for an "R" rating, and the film was viewed by the MPAA again. In an interview with MTV.com, Seth Rogen said, "It's a really filthy movie. I hear they are having some problems getting an R rating from an NC-17 rating, which is never good." He continued, complaining that "They fight against sex stuff. Isn't that weird? It's really crazy to me that Hostel is fine, with people gouging their eyes out and shit like that... But you can't show two people having sex — that's too much"

I couldn't agree more. I understand they want to keep kids from seeing this move, but kids shouldn't be seeing R rated movies in the first place. I know kids who've seen Hostel, all of the Hostel's, and their parents don't bate an eyelash at some guy getting his parts clipped off with a pair of scissors. But LORDY LORD when a movie about two people telling dirty jokes and fall in love comes around...You know, this blog is about movies so I'll divert. But for the record Movin' Pictures does not endorse the idiotic blind-side censorship in this Country. 

It got a little weird there. I'm sorry. I uh, da-la-da-da-da-da-da-la-da-da. Anyway its a great movie, if you're a fan of Smith of even comedy movies in general. It is raunchy in dialogue and their are sex scenes (but they're so comical and ridiculous you'll be laughing the whole time). So, see Zack and Miri Make a Porno its Smith's funniest.