Zack and Miri Make a Porno Critic Reviews

Rudely silly rather than transgressively shocking, Zack and Miri is the sort of bawdy but fundamentally decent farce you could take Grandma to, provided Grandma were familiar with the oeuvre of Traci Lords.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

A Smith production is always noisy, shambling, and liberally smutty on the outside while conservatively gooey on the inside.Read the full review

For two-thirds of its running length, Zack and Miri is vintage Smith - profane humor that knows no boundaries and obeys no rules. What's most amazing about Smith's barrage of hard-R jokes isn't the range of subjects he covers, but how few of them "miss."Read the full review

Naughty and nice is a killer-hard combo to pull off. Stick with Rogen and Banks. They rock it.Read the full review

Along with the awkward romantic exchanges that always seem to find their way into Smith's movies, there's also a sweetness that you don't often see in films that average multiple f-words per minute.Read the full review

This movie could have been an effervescent neo-screwball romance, "Bringing Up Baby" with nut-sack jokes. So there's no blaming the subject matter for the fact that Zack and Miri feels so dispiritingly graceless.Read the full review

Despite shortcomings and implausibility linked to their roles as written, Rogen and Banks come off with surprising charm and grace.Read the full review

In spite of its sometimes tiresome, sometimes amusing lewdness, follows a gee-whiz romantic-comedy formula that would not be out of place on the Disney Channel.Read the full review