Zack and Miri (2008)

  Well, folks, we are nearing the end of our alphabet!  Three cheers!

I would call this a middling film from Kevin Smith.  It's nowhere near as good as Clerks 2 but it's far better than Chasing Amy.

Zack (Seth Rogan) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) have been friends since middle school.  Finding themselves strapped for cash and facing homelessness, Zack gets an idea to solve their money troubles by shooting a porn.  He enlists his co-worker Delaney (Craig Robinson) to front the cash, they hire "actors" (including real-life porn star Katie Morgan, former porn star Traci Lords, and Jason Mewes) and a camera guy (Jeff Anderson), write a script, and get to work.  Things seem to go well until Zack and Miri bone.  Then things get weird.  Like they always do.

As I said, it's a mediocre effort.  There are jokes aplenty but some, 30% we'll say, drag on past the point of being funny and some of it just feels random and misplaced.  This was my second viewing and Rob's first.  He found it to be hysterically funny, so it's possible that I was just jaded by familiarity.  If you're a Kevin Smith fan, you probably already have this one.  If you're not, it'll probably be hit or miss.