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(1 - 38) of 38 OFCS Rating: 58% Rotten Page   1   3/4 "While making Zack and Miri deeper than the average sex farce, Kevin Smith never loses sight of his other top goal: making viewers laugh."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari 5/5 "With its combination of heart and hilarity, bawdy blackouts and cleverly drawn characters, Smith starts out strong and ends up delivering something that's timeless as well as tasteless."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron C "Miri is vacuous effort that never soars as high as the plot promises, and soon gives way to rushing flood waters of formula that Smith has always been more than ready to slap around before."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf 3.5/5 "Zack and Miri finds Smith more consistent than many of his contemporaries, especially in terms of focus."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin C "Kevin Smith hasn't matured enough to actually make a good comedy, but he has accrued enough casting wisdom to elevate his latest homegrown material with the effervescent Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "The movie makes a cleverish joke about the promise of porn, the promise that it tells the truth."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2.5/4 "...would've fared a whole lot better had the sentimental shenanigans been kept to a minimum."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2.5/4 "The very R-rated Zack and Miri Make a Porno is a compulsively watchable comedy, balls-out (literally and figuratively) and kind of adorable, too."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B- "The laughs are plentiful, the obscene observations witty and well delivered, for two-thirds of the running time. It gets soggy when the relationship becomes the focus."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider C+ "The last half hour contains scenes that are almost obscene in their earnestness."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2.5/4 "If the deed itself is sweet, leave it to Smith to fudge the foreplay and drag the afterglow."   Slant Magazine   Fernando F. Croce C "Feels self-consciously naughty rather than truly edgy, an adolescent exercise that's not only behind the curve...but never make[s] the tastelessness more than mildly amusing."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "An unwieldy comedy that tries unsuccessfully to weave two contradictory stories into a satisfying whole."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/5 "Smith's reliance on the same old reference-heavy raunch is a classic case of overcompensating; he's a Jersey loser-jock embarrassed by his sentimental streak."   The L Magazine   Henry Stewart 3/4 "Audiences know what to expect from Smith, and he does not disappoint."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/5 "Explicit Kevin Smith comedy isn't sexy or funny."   Common Sense Media   James Rocchi 6/10 "Click here to read review"   vj.net.ua   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk 7/10 "Doesn't represent much movement from where Smith had placed himself with Clerks II, which means what you felt about the previous should be about the same as what you'd feel about the latest."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 2/5 "There's more yakking than screwing, and the result is flaccid and formulaic enough to remind you how mundane porn flicks are when physical stimulation gets taken out of the equation."   Boxoffice Magazine   John P. McCarthy 3/5 "i tainia poy kathe skinothetis me alithini agapi gia ton kinimatografo, kanei kapoia stigmi stin kariera toy, an kai synithos poly noritera ap' oti o Smith stin prokeimeni, mono poy i diki toy erotiki eksomologisi sto sinema, ti dimioyrgia toy kai ti dyna"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 4/5 "Kevin Smith is famous for raunchiness. This is what he does best."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 3/4 "It still packs enough laughs to be worth checking out."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest C "Sweet and raunchy, but it's rarely funny and that's pretty fatal for a romantic comedy."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "It's a tangled, messy web, to be sure, but it's a sweetly romantic one that couldn't be further from pornography if it tried."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3.5/4 "Zack and Miri finds a love story in a most unlikely place, which makes the romance that much more romantic while still leaving plenty of room to indulge in the potty mouth. I call that a winner on all sides."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C+ "A passably conventional rom-com squishfest decked out with Smith's usual pop-culture references."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 3/5 "There are plenty of cringeworthy moments toward the end, but Rogen, Banks, Mewes, and Anderson are funny enough without straying too far into Nerdlandia that it’s nearly enough to make you ignore Smith’s utter density regarding the fairer sex."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 3/5 "Miri isn't as bad as Alyssa the Light Switch Lesbian from "Chasing Amy," but the premise [...] is almost as insultingly unrealistic."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 4/5 "While this may not top Chasing Amy as Smith's cinematic high-water mark, it is the most solidly constructed and emotionally mature thing that he has done since that film and it is funny as hell to boot."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2.5/5 "Kevin Smith brings his say-anything humour to this comedy then holds back on the storytelling. The premise sets us up for something truly raucous, but it ends up being yet another prudish, mushy rom-com."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "It's a companionable enough experience, even though the title should really be "Zack Makes a Porno (with Miri).""   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves B- "Kevin Smith may never grow up and from where I sit, that's perfectly OK."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux B "Zack and Miri Make a Porno is funny, evenly paced with some good, amusing performances."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 4/5 "A sweet-yet-smutty concoction that would feel right at home in the Judd Apatow sub-section of the video store. I mean that as a compliment."   Cinematical   Scott Weinberg B- "... filmdom's Everyman geek of a director is a goofy, gooey romantic at heart. Emphasis on the gooey."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 5/10 "Crude and farcical, it's a lust cause - yet I must confess a certain amusement when I realized that Elizabeth Banks was also playing Laura Bush in Oliver Stone's 'W' on an adjoining screen in the multiplex. Now that's versatility!"   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 0/4 "There's something wrong with Kevin Smith."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 38) of 38 OFCS Rating: 58% Rotten Page   1