Zack & Miri Make a Porno

What would you do to get out of debt?
What would you do to get out of debt?
ZACK & MIRI MAKE A PORNO (18)
D: Kevin Smith
The Weinstein Company/View Askew (Scott Mosier)
US 2008
97 mins

Comedy

W: Kevin Smith
DP: David Klein
Ed: Kevin Smith
Mus: James L. Venable

Seth Rogen (Zack), Elizabeth Banks (Miri), Craig Robinson (Delaney), Jason Mewes (Lester), Jeff Anderson (Deacon), Traci Lords (Bubbles), Katie Morgan (Stacey)

Two long-term platonic friends decide that the best way to get out of debt is to make an amateur pornographic film with a group of their friends.
It's nowhere near Kevin Smith's best work and it has to be said that his brand of humour struggles away from his Jay & Silent Bob characters and work which is more personal to Smith (i.e. Chasing Amy).
This does have the occasional moment which raises a smile, especially the planned pornographic version of Star Wars, which would have made a much funnier movie if they'd gone ahead with that idea. Perhaps George Lucas was looking on angrily. Still, it would've been a better plot than The Phantom Menace.
5/10

Elizabeth Banks & Seth Rogen in Zack & Miri Make a Porno
Elizabeth Banks & Seth Rogen in Zack & Miri Make a Porno