Zack And Miri Make A Porno

KEVIN SMITH IS FUCKING AWESOME. My favourite director/producer/writer continues his awesome work (okay minus Jersey Girl and Mallrats) with his latest production, Zack And Miri Make A Porno. It had all the hallmarks of a Kevin Smith masterpiece - snappy, pop culture-referring, witty dialogue, fucking brilliant soundtrack and an off-beat modern plot interwoven with an unconventional love story.

The story's about purely-platonic roommates Zack (Seth Rogen from Superbad and Knocked Up) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks from The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Spiderman II and III) who suffer from financial difficulty and decide to make a porno to pay their bills. In the course of doing so, they fall in love; and with the help of their friends and cast, they make the movie a fucking (pun intended) success.

Here are two scenes that perfectly capture the essence of the film:

This is Miri trying to hit on Bobby Long, her high school crush at a high school reunion. But Miri was in for a very big surprise. This entire scene is so very Kevin Smith.



Okay this next scene is when Zack and Miri are about to have sex for the first time, in their porn movie Swallow My Cockuccino (yes it's coffeehouse-themed porn). By then, both of them have realised their feelings for the other, but have yet to express it. Okay it starts off DAMN retarded but when they get down to it, it's actually romantic. And Kevin used a damn nice song (Hold Me Up by Live) for this scene.



Tell you what guys. Nothing beats watching the whole thing in a cinema or on DVD. Trust me. One of Kevin Smith's awesomest.