Zack and Miri Make a Porno

We sat down last night to enjoy Zack and Miri Make a Porno by Kevin Smith. I have never been that much of a fan of Kevin Smith movies, in fact the only one I truly liked was Dogma. In fact when we started watching this movie I didn't know Kevin Smith had anything to do with it and was under the impression that it was created by the people who did Forgetting Sarah Marshall or Superbad. But after the words fuck and shit were used no less than 1,600 times in the first 15 minutes, I began to suspect that something was up. But it wasn't until Jason Mewes (aka: Jay) made his appearance that I had to smack my forehead with the dawning realization that I was in for 90 minutes of potty humor.

I curse like a sailor myself on most days that I am awake, but when profanity is used in a manor I can only liken to a 14 year old girl who cannot find another preposition other than the word "Like" to form a complete sentence, I can't help but want to slam my head in a car door. But once I was able to put my masochistic tendencies in check, I got down to finding the movie funny.

It was not a movie that was humorous or even original in any way, shape or form but the circumstances that the characters find themselves in and their attempt to get themselves out of were funny and even touching. Well, as touching as a movie about two best friends who can't pay their bills and decide to make a porno and have sex on camera to make enough money to at least turn the heat back on in their apartment only to find that after doing it on a sack of coffee beans in the storage room in the coffee shop they were using as a film studio can be.

But in the end, as predictable as the movie was and the fact that my vocabulary will never be the same, I never tire of a happy ending where love happens between the two main characters.