Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks play the title characters, and they do what the title implies. When money problems get so bad that Elizabeth must rely on toilet water to rinse her hair, and Zack burns bills in a trash can for warmth, the two best friends and roommates decide to make a porno as part of a get rich scheme after some racy footage of them hits it big on the Internet. Writer-director Kevin Smith mines the world of net porn for many good laughs, and it helps to have Seth Rogen in his cast. (The man is getting funnier with each filml.) The movie gets a tad predictable and corny with Zack and Miri’s relationship on and off camera, but there are enough hilariously profane moments to balance things out. Smith standby Jason Mewes gets some of the film’s biggest laughs as a porn star, and real life porn queen Katie Morgan shows she’s equipped with some decent comic timing. This one almost got the dreaded NC-17 rating … it’s a pretty hard R.