As the title might indicate, this is a movie about Zack and Miri making a pornographic movie. They probably should have changed the title to "Zack and Miri Make the World's Worst Porno Movie." It goes without saying that this is a guy movie -- though in odd ways, women may like it too.
Being from Kevin Smith, you know what you're getting into.
Here, the women participating in the porno movie are exceptionally attractive, two being former porn stars themselves (Katie Morgan and Traci Lords). On the other hand, the guys are exceptionally unattractive, and definitely not former porn stars.
The comedy comes from the fact that they are all equally ridiculously stupid.
SPOILER This really isn't much of a spoiler, still it's best to be careful: At one point one of the rather dim "actors" on the set, watching a particularly ridiculous sex scene says: "This is the worst porno I've ever seen." And he's right. And it's funny.
But that's sort of the point, this is really about two friends who find themselves in financial need who can come up with no other idea but to make a sex movie for additional income. The kicker of course is that they're male and female, platonic friends. Just friends.
Again, possible spoiler, the whole plot revolves around Zack and Miri, the platonic friends, beginning to understand their mutual attraction, and feelings for each other, through the miracle of porn. That's sort of the funny part: The miracle of porn? Though they say the first cave paintings were of that variety, so I guess it's been around for a long time.
The movie itself is low budget, or seems so, though of course the movie they are making is less than "no budget". It's amusing because of the script, makes it clear that you can put hundreds of millions of dollars into a film, and it still might be unwatchable. Or a few millions, and have people laughing themselves out of their seats.
Though few people read these reviews I'd imagine, I do want to say to anyone out there -- the ex-porn actresses are very, very funny. Both Traci Lords and Katie Morgan give great performances, as comedy actresses, not any other sort of thing.
There is sort of a serious subtext, nothing too much, and just handled very deftly, seemingly a message within the funny and somewhat disgusting bathroom humor. No spoiler on this one, just would quote from Paul Newman: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?"
This is a Kevin Smith movie, so know going in that it won't be exactly family friendly. Then again, the title might indicate that from the get go.
Being from Kevin Smith, you know what you're getting into.
Here, the women participating in the porno movie are exceptionally attractive, two being former porn stars themselves (Katie Morgan and Traci Lords). On the other hand, the guys are exceptionally unattractive, and definitely not former porn stars.
The comedy comes from the fact that they are all equally ridiculously stupid.
SPOILER This really isn't much of a spoiler, still it's best to be careful: At one point one of the rather dim "actors" on the set, watching a particularly ridiculous sex scene says: "This is the worst porno I've ever seen." And he's right. And it's funny.
But that's sort of the point, this is really about two friends who find themselves in financial need who can come up with no other idea but to make a sex movie for additional income. The kicker of course is that they're male and female, platonic friends. Just friends.
Again, possible spoiler, the whole plot revolves around Zack and Miri, the platonic friends, beginning to understand their mutual attraction, and feelings for each other, through the miracle of porn. That's sort of the funny part: The miracle of porn? Though they say the first cave paintings were of that variety, so I guess it's been around for a long time.
The movie itself is low budget, or seems so, though of course the movie they are making is less than "no budget". It's amusing because of the script, makes it clear that you can put hundreds of millions of dollars into a film, and it still might be unwatchable. Or a few millions, and have people laughing themselves out of their seats.
Though few people read these reviews I'd imagine, I do want to say to anyone out there -- the ex-porn actresses are very, very funny. Both Traci Lords and Katie Morgan give great performances, as comedy actresses, not any other sort of thing.
There is sort of a serious subtext, nothing too much, and just handled very deftly, seemingly a message within the funny and somewhat disgusting bathroom humor. No spoiler on this one, just would quote from Paul Newman: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?"
This is a Kevin Smith movie, so know going in that it won't be exactly family friendly. Then again, the title might indicate that from the get go.