Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Kevin Smith Goes Outside of New Jersey for His Latest Comedy

C'mon Salt Lake City! Lighten up a little! You can't stand a raunchy and sweet movie like Kevin Smith's "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," but you have no problem with actors dying the most creatively brutal deaths in "Saw V?" Oh the irony! The hypocrisy! Why is that people can be so much more comfortable with violence than they are about sex? Look, I enjoy an ultra violent movie every once in awhile, but every once in awhile I need to lighten up with a good comedy. While is male full frontal nudity so damn scary to people when female full frontal nudity is all but encouraged? I mean really! Did anyone see "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" earlier this year? The penis isn't hiding from the silver screen anymore! Or keep in mind something that a friend once told the late George Carlin (RIP):

"I'd rather have my son watch a movie with two people making love rather than two people trying to kill one another."

But anyway, enough with the rant, and on with the review! "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" is the latest movie from Kevin Smith, and the first movie he has made that takes place outside of New Jersey. It takes place in Pittsburgh where we follow the exploits of the title characters who share an apartment, and who have been the best of friends since they were kids. Right now, their lives are hanging by a thread as they are behind on all their bills, and soon lose their water and electricity. Both work at a Starbucks like shop called "Bean n' Gone" where they waste their lives away like those two guys from the "Clerks" movies. Sound like anyone you know?

The two end up going to their high school reunion where Miri ends up connecting to her biggest crush, football hero Bobby Long ("Superman Returns'" Brandon Routh), in the hopes of having a nice little fling. She has yet to find that Bobby doesn't "swing that way." This soon becomes clear as we see Zack talking with Bobby's boyfriend, Brandon (Justin Long is frackin' hilarious). Brandon soon reveals to Zack that he is in fact an actor in gay porno films, the stuff that Zack doesn't quite fit the demographic for.