Reception Zack and Miri Make a Porno

1 reception

1.1 box office
1.2 critical response
1.3 smith s views in retrospect

reception
box office

zack , miri make porno box office flop. film opened #2 behind high school musical 3: senior year $10.7 million 2,735 theaters, average of $3,906 per theater. bankable rogen experienced worst box-office opening ever . in interview katla mcglynn of huffington post, smith himself observed:

i depressed, man. wanted movie better. m sitting there thinking s it, s it, m gone, m out. movie didn t , killed seth rogen s career! dude on roll until got in likes of me. m career killer! judd [apatow] s going pissed, whole internet s going pissed because seth, , reason me anymore because involved seth! , fuckin ruined that. high school. like, m dead man. ll laughing stock.

during 13 weeks in release, film grossed $42.1 million worldwide. following box office disappointment, kevin smith s relationship producer harvey weinstein soured: associate says smith bitterly blamed harvey weinstein failing spend enough market film. although weinstein said spent $30 million on marketing, smith didn t believe had followed through. either way, relationship between 2 frayed.

critical response

film review aggregator rotten tomatoes reports 65% of critics gave film positive review, based on 193 reviews, average score of 6.1/10. site s consensus reads: zack , miri make porno modest success kevin smith, due in large part charm of seth rogen , elizabeth banks. on metacritic, assigns normalised rating based on reviews mainstream critics, film has score of 56 out of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating mixed or average reviews .

michael phillips of chicago tribune said film pushes r rating pretty hard, though smith characters side of silent bob, there s lot more raunch in talk — sheer, voluminous, hilarious verbosity — in action. a. o. scott says smith has been tinkering dirty-mind/soft-heart combination quite time, forming link of sorts between humanist sexual anarchy of john waters , smutty victorianism of judd apatow ; according scott:

[i]n spite of avalanche of verbal filth (and smaller quantum of visual variety), zack , miri not shocking @ all. , characters revel in dialogue riffs on body parts , bodily fluids, mr. smith s stories bathed – metaphorically! – in syrup , schmaltz. zack , miri make porno, in spite of tiresome, amusing lewdness, follows gee-whiz romantic-comedy formula not out of place on disney channel. 2 best friends have been in love each other discover ... have been in love each other. granted, revelation occurs while having sex in front of camera, sweet , predictable these potentially tawdry circumstances hardly matter.

roger ebert of chicago sun-times gave movie (3 out of 4 stars) , stated that, somehow kevin smith s excesses defuse material. s guy @ party tells dirty jokes fast, dangerfield-style, laugh more @ performance material.

smith s views in retrospect

both smith , producer scott mosier disappointed film s poor box office performance; according smith:

that supposed 1 punched through next level. thought $60 $70 million, , wound doing kevin smith business. like, m done. if write @ point in life, poor fat kid movie didn t make enough money.

for 2 months after film s theatrical release, smith didn t work. stayed away internet.smith convinced film grasp piece of raunchy-comedy box-office success had flowed freely judd apatow previous year knocked ; when didn t, smith criticized harvey weinstein not spending enough market movie, allegation weinstein denies, noting spent $30 million marketing film.

more 2 years after film released, smith said zack , miri literally me adulterating own story...the story of how made clerks, porn.