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With that provocative title, and the fact that it brings together two of the highest profile names in US comedy, Zack and Miri Make a Porno was always going to have the critics dribbling with anticipation. But like a bad one-night stand, the reality doesn't seem to have lived up to the fantasy: Kevin Smith 's collaboration with Seth Rogen has its funny moments, but most reviewers have been left faintly dissatisfied. It looked good in the bar with the lights down low and a firestorm of booze in the belly, but it's a pretty plain-looking creature in the cold light of morning. Smith's film is a high concept comedy in which two flatmates decide to enter the adult movie industry in order to fend off imminent financial ruin. But Zack and Miri is a very middling film, similar in form to Smith's Clerks 2. Zack and Miri feels uncomfortably like a gruesome game of filth-talk oneupmanship, and it's hard to care who comes out on top. It gives his potty-mouth routines a certain freshness; we've heard these words over and over again, but never so many of them so closely jammed together. If you bleeped this movie for broadcast TV, it would sound like a conga line of Iron Men going through a metal detector. I, too, found Zack and Miri a fairly average affair. If it wasn't for the fact that the likes of Adam Sandler regularly put out far, far worse movies, I wonder whether Smith would have quite the cachet with critics that he still, to an extent, maintains.
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Kevin Smith begins with the advantage of being raised with deeply embedded senses of sin and guilt. He's 38, and he still believes sex is dirty, and that it's funny to shock people with four-letter words and enough additional vulgarisms to fill out a crossword puzzle. This is sort of endearing. It gives his potty-mouth routines a certain freshness; we've heard these words over and over again, but never so many of them so closely jammed together. If you bleeped this movie for broadcast TV, it would sound like a conga line of Iron Men going through a metal detector. He is. Since he likes to eat, I will describe him in food terms. He isn't a gourmet chef, supplying little nuggets of armadillo surrounded by microscopic carrots and curlicues of raspberry-avocado-mint juice. He's the kind of chef I've valued for a lifetime, the kind you see behind the ledge in a Formica diner, pulling down new orders from revolving clips.
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