Zach & Miri Make a Porno

written & directed by: Kevin Smith

Normally I dont watch Kevin Smith's movies that take a trip outside of his View Askew universe. I like the running gags and repition of characters and general absuridty and vuglarness that insues inside the realm. But when I saw the preview for this and that Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen were in it I had to see it.

Zach (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) are life long friends and current roommates who have crappy dead end jobs. Miri works at the mall and Zach works at a coffee house. They find themselves flat broke but get ready to attend their 10 year high school reunion, where Miri is determined to sleep with the hottest guy in the school, Bobby Long (Brandon Routh).

Zach despises everyone in his class and Miri zooms in on Bobby as soon as they get there. Zach finds himself chatting with a mysterious guy Brandon (Justin Long) who tells him about all the money he makes in LA doing gay porn and he's just in town to go come to the reunion with his boyfriend...Bobby.

Miri is distraught so the pair go home only to find that their lights and water have been turned off. They go to the bar and Zach figures that they could do like Brandon and make a porno. Who wouldnt pay to see people from their high school class make porn??? (hypothetical question of course).

So Zach talks to his coworker Delaney (Craig Robinson) to bankroll the film (from his flat screen tv fund), they hold auditions, and get to work on making the film. Zach and Miri figure they should be able to get through their scene because after all they are just friends...or are they???

There is no way to describe this movie but a romantic comedy. A very very explicit romantic comedy. I mean its very predictable what will happen but they have a real live porn star in the movie (Katie Morgan), a hillarious list of porn movie titles, and thankfully Kevin put his good buddy Jason Mewes in the movie. This movie is not for the easily unsettled. They don't show EVERYTHING, but they come damn close.

It wasn't as funny as say...Tropic Thunder or Pineapple Express, but it was damn entertaining. When the credits started I was kinda pissed because the movie felt unfinished, so I sat tight and hoped for a scene during/after the credits, and sure enough Kevin did not fail me. The movie wrapped up nicely so don't pop up as soon as its done. And definetly do not take any children or the easily offended.