Zack and Miri Make a Porno: Review By JR

if you dont like foul mouth films, or graphic sex scenes, then do 'not' see this movie!

writen & directed by kevin smith, starring Seth Rogen,Elizabeth Banks.

"Zack and Miri Make a Porno," as the title hints, is about Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) making a porno. "I don't know bleep about directing," Smith once confided to me. "But I'm a bleeping good writer."

Zack and Miri are poverty-row roommates, who have lived together for years, I guess, but never have sex because you might feel funny around a good friend if you bleeped them, and a good friend is so much harder to come by than a bleep. Now they face eviction and ruin, and might have to become bleeping sidewalk mates. After some little jerk videotapes them (not bleeping but looking like (B)ILFs), they become superstars of the netherlands of YouTube and have a brilliant idea: They'll cash in on their fame by making a porn film.

Of course this will require them to bleep on camera, a sacrifice they are willing to make, as long as what happens in the porno, stays in the porno. They enlist aid from a kid (Jeff Anderson) who videos football games; the abundantly tumescent Jason Mewes (Silent Bob's friend Jay), and the well-known Traci Lords, who at last is the only grown-up in a movie.

As they edge uneasily toward their big scene, Miri and Zack pull off the complex feat of being unfaithful to each other with themselves, who they meet on the set. This does not happen easily and is accompanied by a flood of scatological humor. Their producer is Delaney (Craig Robinson), a guy Zack works with at a Starbucks wanna-be, and who is funny as he tries to responsibly perform duties he knows only in theory.

And of course, awwww, Zack and Miri admit they've been in love along, and achieve something you never see in a porn film, lovemaking with barely visible sex and very genuine romance. Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks make a lovable couple; she's pretty and goes one-for-one on the bleep language, and Rogen, how can I say this, is growing on me, the big lug.

Rogen is steady once again doing his young Albert Brooks thing, and Justin Long and Brandon Routh contribute memorable cameos, but Banks is the standout cast member, showing that she can add another dimension to her fun and naughty character from "The 40-Year-Old Virgin." One of Smith's less-appreciated talents is the ability to craft characters that act obnoxiously but are still sort of lovable despite their faults. Jason Mewes plays a borderline deranged D-list porn actor, and you still want good things to happen to him.

Zack and Miri" has some Smith regulars in it, and his raunchy-yet-clever dialogue is instantly recognizable. But he wisely leaves the safety zone of his View Askewniverse, which is marked by Smith's Jay and Silent Bob characters, a home base of New Jersey and vaguely autobiographical story lines. The main characters in the new film live in Pittsburgh, are in their 20s and have maybe 10 percent less ambition than the characters in "Clerks."

overall, good comedy, not as graphic as some say. 'but' still pretty raunchy. though kevin smith needs to be better at, trying to make comedys, like jude apatow that do well' on the raunchy'heart warming type comedy.