Zack & Miri make a porno.

OK, it's already too late on a sunday night, there's school tomorrow, I should really be thinking about getting to bed, but I just saw the finest comedy of the year, I need to write about it now, otherwise I'll let it slip again and it'll get ridiculous. Like those words about I am Legend I read in january that I never finished. Or Bookhunter, a great comics I got at the Angouleme festival, also in January. Anyway.

To make a porno. Well I started with the end really. The finest comedy I'll see this year for me. No more no less. And not only because I don't plan to see any other... ;)

I'm not a major in Kevin Smith's movies, but I at least thoroughly enjoyed everything I saw from him. Clerks is of course cult, but there's always a sort of sweetness that's hard to shake from his movies, making them memorable, eventhough they might feel... I don't know, simple maybe? Not in a bad way though. Only, it's never going to be oscar material. But who cares? Fact is: I remember Mallrats better than possibly any oscarised movie I saw (actually maybe not because there are very good movies that get Oscars, but you got the idea). And I saw it only once.
It's got good (highly quotable) dialogs and likeable characters, what else would you need?

So Zack & Miri is more of the same, in a sense. It's somehow strange to say that this movie is all about swetness. Because at the same time it's pretty fucking rowdy, if you'll excuse my French. But at the heart, it is a sweet love story. And if that's fairly unoriginal, well it makes it up on the amateur porno side...
I posted about PG Porn some time ago. Well there's a bit of this, only it's not really PG here (you actually see boobies). There is some pitch-perfect "porn" acting, which I believe requires skill.
Think the scene in Clerks when Randall orders the videos? There's a bit of that as well. Taken to the feature level. So it's quite filthy. But the sweetness of it all takes it all over! (^_^)

I don't think there's anyone who can film some loveable characters like Smith can do. Everyone in this makes you wish you knew them. They're such a cool gang. I'd just want to go wherever they are and hang out with them. That's one thing that's a bit depressing: I'll never really get to know them. But man, they're so cool!

The cast is excellent, from the main characters (Helen Banks is sooo sweet and don't call Seth Rogen a loser...) to the slightest cameo (but how did Justin Long get such a low voice???). They carry the dialogs to perfection and they MAKE that movie.

Oh and the soundtrack is great also. Always nice to hear the Pixies.

So I had a good right laugh (I needed one), I went "aaaw!" and "eeew!" and I had a hell of a good time.
Thanks Kevin & your mates!

PS: Make sure you sit through the whole credits...