How can a movie starring Elizabeth Banks and has the word porno in the title be so bad?
The movie is about Zack and Miri who are roommates and they are really poor. The are barely making enough to pay the rent and utility bills plus Zack is spending all their money in buying sex toys. One day Zack gets an idea to make money fast..by making porn!
The premise of the film sounds interesting and who wouldn't wanna see a comedy where Seth Rogen screws Elizabeth Banks? The problem with this film is that it's not that funny nor is the writing any good either. Zack and Miri is such a ripoff of previous Judd Apatow films. Shy of it's few saving graces and massive amounts of naked women, the film is embarrassingly predictable and dumb.
But then you look and the credits and you find out who the director is. Kevin Smith, the man who did Jersey Girls. This guy is one of the most unoriginal directors I have ever seen. I can literally imagine this guy thinking to himself, "Who makes successful movies these days? Oh, I know.. Judd Apatow! Great now I'm gonna copy him and I'll get a billion dollars." And I'm getting really creeped out with his Star Wars fetish. It's like every every movie he makes must have a Star Wars reference in there. Jeez grow up fatty.
This is like watching porn but not being able to see the sex. You come in here expecting to get this, this, this and this but the movie blows so hard that it's hard to find anything to like about it. ow to be fair there are some parts in here that are quite funny but it feels like stuff that were borrowed out of Apatow movies. And the ones that weren't were more or less shit jokes.
But what is great were the actors. There is a cameo by Brandon Routh and Justin Long which was the funniest thing ever. And the chemistry between the two leads, Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks. The two could be brother and sister for all I know. Their scenes work great together, their really funny screwing with each other and Elizabeth Banks is hella hot!
And Katie Morgan's in this. Whoa! I've seen some of her porn videos before and she's hella hot! Also the strippers in the movie were amazingly sexy. One of them even looked like Megan Fox which kinda made me go "Ooohhh."
If you're gonna watch Zack and Miri.. fast forward to the sex parts or better yet, just go on redtube and watch some nice videos.
RATING: 4/10
