The secondary actors, the secondary characters, are the ones that really shine in this film. Craig Robinson as the "producer" of the porno Delaney, coworker of Zack, is just outstanding. His timing, his face, his sheer joy at being allowed to be a part of a porno, is just completely outstanding. He's like a kid in a candy shop as the producer because he gets to find boobs for the film as well as talent, such as Traci Lords (who has absolutely not much to do with this movie except blow a bubble with a queef). Jason Mewes and Jeff Anderson, two of the only holdovers from past Smith films, also work wonders in the film. We see all of Jason Mewes (and I mean all of him), and his idiot savant Lester the Molester is just outstanding. Most of the funniest lines in the film belong to him. He's on top of the comedy bits, the sex bits, and just pure hilarious.

Jeff Anderson, as always, proves himself better than the material being presented, why he's relegated to small roles in these films is still beyond me. As Deacon, the director of photography and the editor, his entrance to the film involves him as a hockey goalie knocking someone out and then immediately takes him into the rest of the film, as the DP, and he's also involved in one of the only gross-out scenes in the film, where he is "frosted" in his own words.

The cameos from Justin Long and Brandon Routh as lovers made me wish they were the two main characters in the film. Long was just completely out-there as the lover of Routh's closeted gay man, and Routh (the should-still-be Superman) was perfect as the boyish good looks hunk of a quarterback who grew up gay and had to hide it. Cameos come and go in this movie with people like Tyler Labine (the awesome Sock from Reaper, also should have been in this film more), Smith's wife Jennifer Schwalbach, Kenny Hotz (from the stupid show Kenny vs Spenny), Gerry Bednob (one of the two Indian characters from 40 Year Old Virgin, the older one), Tom Savini, Tisha Campbell-Martin (from Martin and My Wife and Kids fame), and again, almost all of these people are better than the two main actors.

I'll get to the two main characters second, but the fact that they had the gall to call this Zack and Miri Make A Porno, when they don't in fact ever finish, produce, distribute, or do anything with the porno until at the very end of the credits, you're left with a bad taste in your mouth. It's just another excuse for Kevin Smith to tell dick and fart jokes, to use curse words, and to try and be edgy, but it's very sad that the older I get, the more I stray from his humor, and you'd think he would try and do the same.

9 times out of 10, the girl who looks like Miri will laugh at you if you present this idea to her and then just so happen to fall in love.

And that's the problem: the two main actors in this film are completely terrible. Rogen mugs through this movie, essentially laughing toward the camera like a 12-year old watching his first porno. He's almost completely unfunny and all he does is make lewd comments, bad jokes, and just laugh at everything. Banks is no better here. She plays the wounded girlfriend character in a complete flip after being the heartless bitch trying for revenge sex at their high school reunion so fast that it makes no sense. So effectively, this hopefully will be Kevin Smith's call to yet again make a Jay and Silent Bob movie. He has finally proven that he does not have what it takes to tell a compelling story about two other people set in a different city, and he'll probably have to go back
to the well.

Definitely not a movie that everyone should watch. I would put it below Mallrats and Jersey Girl as Kevin Smith's worst movie. The laughs are few and far between, and the two main characters are complete zeroes that one has a hard time even caring what happens to them from scene to scene. Everything seems to happen around them without them having any control over the outcome (such as their bill situation being fixed by their friends, the demolition of
their sound stage, etc) and all they can do is just mug for the camera. Watch one of Smith's other films and be entertained again and again. Don't watch this and be reminded that he has completely lost his way.