Zack and Miri Make a Porno Critic Reviews
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Based upon 14 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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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
Longs to be a smutty film with a heart of gold. Instead, it's a funny concept whose execution does not live up to its potential.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
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
It's really dumb, even though it starts promisingly and continues, in a self-infatuated way, to consider itself quite bright.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
A Smith production is always noisy, shambling, and liberally smutty on the outside while conservatively gooey on the inside.Read the full review
This was originally rated NC-17, and somehow, I'm thinking that version will survive on DVD.Read the full review
The film is clumsily unfunny at times--particularly when Smith makes tone-deaf efforts at gay-and black-themed comedy--and it's occasionally gross just for the sake of being gross.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
