Super short review: Zack and Miri Make a Porno, or "no man can be friends with a woman"
Seriously, is it so hard to imagine men being friends with women without sex being a problem? I guess I shouldn't expect much more from Kevin Smith, considering how large bromances loom in his movies--Dante and Randal in Clerks, T.S. and Brodie in Mallrats, Bartleby and Loki in Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob in all of those movies and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back: in the Kevin Smith world, guys can be friends--guys have to be friends because women can't be.
This film has a few bromances in the wings, with the minor characters bonding, but unfortunately the central romance between Zack and Miri remains as vague as the relationships of the minor characters. There might be a few laughs in the film--and it's depressingly easy to imagine the cast of Clerks trying to make ends meet by making porn even after the massive success of that film--but there's not much else. Zack and Miri Make a Porno ultimately can't figure out how its protagonists should get into a relationship, which results in an inability to figure out how to end the movie.
Maybe there's something interesting about the fact that sex destroys the relationship between Zack and Miri--until, that is, Zack watches the video of them having sex. That is, the only way to bring these two people together is through the mediation of porn, but the film doesn't seem to understand how weird this is as a solution.
Recommended or not recommended? Not recommended
This film has a few bromances in the wings, with the minor characters bonding, but unfortunately the central romance between Zack and Miri remains as vague as the relationships of the minor characters. There might be a few laughs in the film--and it's depressingly easy to imagine the cast of Clerks trying to make ends meet by making porn even after the massive success of that film--but there's not much else. Zack and Miri Make a Porno ultimately can't figure out how its protagonists should get into a relationship, which results in an inability to figure out how to end the movie.
Maybe there's something interesting about the fact that sex destroys the relationship between Zack and Miri--until, that is, Zack watches the video of them having sex. That is, the only way to bring these two people together is through the mediation of porn, but the film doesn't seem to understand how weird this is as a solution.
Recommended or not recommended? Not recommended