I had my daughter today. And since i only get to see her for several hours at a time we usually check out a movie. No I didn't take to go see this movie i watched it after she left. Nothing makes me smile more than a child laughing. Any child for that matter could laugh and it would make my day. A close second to smiling is any Kevin Smith movie and he didn't let me down with this soon to be Classic.
Believe the Hype ----The movie starts out a little slow with best friends and roommates Zach(Seth Rogen)and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) pissed off about going to there 10 year high school reunion. The are reluctant about attending but both do so. Before they go Miri is changing her clothes in the back of the coffee shop that both work at full time While changing her clothes two punk kids capture video with there cell phone of Miri in a pair of big white granny panties and nothing else. The video is a instant internet sensation. Meanwhile Miri ultimate goal at the reunion is to find a old bully Bobby Long (Brandon Routh) that used to call her names and she will show him how she has turned out(and she has turned out very nice if i don't say so myself). She finds the bully to be very handsome and with some very clever Kevin Smith dialogue the two hit it off nicely while Zach is by himself in the corner drinking on a beer. Zach starts talking to a man at the bar who turns out to be s gay porn star and he tells Zach of the riches in those kinds of movies and he is also Brandon Long's gay lover.
Sooner rather than later, stacks of overdue bills comes into play as the dejected Zach and Miri make their way home and lose their water, then their power, then seemingly any rational means to erase their debt. Fearful that they will ultimately lose their apartment(This movie is filled with soon to be great one liners) they eventually decide to parlay their new found internet fame (that of the granny panties and bare ass) into dollars by making, yes, an adult feature. Zach's reasoning, which Miri eventually agrees with, is that they can at least sell it to the 850 people on their high school's alumni mailing list (obtained from the disastrous reunion). The solid understanding the two have about having sex together for the first time after being life-long friends is shot straight to hell when it turns out they can't separate those buried feelings for the sake of cashing in on their filmed physicality.
The side characters; Jay - Kenny from Kenny and Spenny and a few others are all well suited for the movie and score some laughs though out the flick. One question i have is i didn't see Kevin play any parts in the movie. DID HE?
Kevin Smith is brilliant as he nails the comedy aspect right on the head but then Zack and Miri garner some funny feelings for each other, and then you have to try and give and hoot about their relationship, and the comedy turns into a funny rom-com.You want them to fall in love. Kevin even adds another brilliantly funny scene at the end where the audience is lead to think that for sure Zach will never get the girl.
The movie just line after line of nasty and hilarious dialogue that you can quote with your friends for the next couple of weeks.
And in closing if I've learned anything from Zack and Miri, it's that everyone should dabble in porno at least once in their life.
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