Zack and Miri Make A Porno

I arrived at the Vue Cinema with a note from my cinema’s manager asking their cinema manager to let me and a friend (Jenny Horwell) into the film for free, it felt much like arriving with a note from my mum asking to be let in, but is the way they do things in London apparently, me going to Vue for free would be like a Dendy employee going to Hoyts for free, in a similar vein the restaurant across the road from my cinema gives us discounts and free food, I hear that anyone who works on Leicester Square gets freebies from every other business on Leicester Square, mostly likely this is all due to service being minimum wage, but my eventual point is that I didn’t have to pay to see ‘Zack and Miri Make a Porno’ and that’s the way I like it, Smith first burst onto the scene with a comedy dripping in freshness, ‘Clerks’ disregarded everything else going on in the American genre being dialogue heavy and character charged, ‘Zack and Miri’ is a sell-out to everything currently going on in the genre, especially to Apatow (which is quite frankly the only decent thing going on in the genre), it is evident in both the cast and the somewhat predictable soppiness of the romance between Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks, but Smith isn’t Apatow, he hasn’t got the same sweet sensibility underlying his film, and his comedy seems forced, more vulgar than Apatow, almost like he is begging for laughs, the film did have one or two funny moments but that isn’t worth paying for, to admit though, this film was funnier than any of the American comedies advertised before, but I don’t want to think about how depressing that is.