"Zack and Miri Make a Porno" debuts in theaters on Friday and it is another sexually filled movie from director Kevin Smith. A scandal was already stirred because of the explicit word inside the title of the film. There were newspapers, TV stations and billboard owners who didn’t want to accept ads with the full title, and Utah chain Megaplex Theatres refused to screen the comedy.

The following event gives birth to the rest of the film: roommates Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) decide to produce a homemade porn film to raise rent money. So as juicy as a premise can get. Zack and Miri are actually childhood friends and roommates who can barely scrape together rent money, even though both have jobs and don't exactly live on the brighter side of squalid. Theirs is a perfectly platonic relationship. However three events conspire to drive them into the adult-entertainment business: a chance meeting with Long and Routh at their high school reunion, some rather benign YouTubed footage of Miri's "granny panties," and their electricity getting cut off during the holiday season.

Some newspapers and television programs are refusing to use the word porno in their advertisements, and are simply calling it “Zack and Miri.” The movie originally received an NC-17 rating, which means absolutely no children under 17 years old, but the director Kevin Smith successfully appealed and now it’s being shown with an “R” rating, which is justified if we come to think that some of the co-stars’ appearances, including Mewes and porn star Katie Morgan involve nudity. Nevertheless this is, probably, Kevin Smith's best movie since “Clerks.”