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'Zack and Miri' can't get ahead with MPAA The MPAA giveth, and the MPAA taketh away. Recently, director Kevin Smith successfully appealed the NC-17 rating for his new comedy, Zack and Miri Make a Porno. But a short month after Smith's victory, the ratings board has put the kibosh on the movie's first poster. The one-sheet will now be used only in Canada. While you can see why the MPAA got its puritanical knickers in a twist, you have to laugh at the "raciness" of an image in which two people are not only fully clothed but practically dressed for a Minnesota toboggan ride. Via Cinematical. Also check out the new Zach and Miri red-band trailer. —Posted by David Griner

September 4, 2008 in Controversy, Griner | Permalink

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Er, I don't know if it went over your head, but the racy part of the poster is at the very bottom - each one of the billed stars is getting oral from the other one.

Posted by: anonymous | Sep 4, 2008 8:35:18 AM

So my headline was too subtle, is what you're getting at.

Posted by: David Griner | Sep 4, 2008 8:48:30 AM

omg, talk about overreacting ...

Posted by: flo | Sep 4, 2008 9:09:09 AM

@anonymous I know the part that you call "racy" is at the bottom, I still think they overreacted.

@David dunno about your headline, I referred more to the censoring board then your headline.

Posted by: flo | Sep 4, 2008 9:40:10 AM

It's the great American need to titillate and then censor. Expect more of the same if Palin and her radical fundamentalists get near the White House.

Posted by: lokisez | Sep 4, 2008 2:01:39 PM

@anonymous: I think that could only be considered racy if the actors' faces reflected the fact that they were getting head. Or I don't know, maybe that's what the rest of you look like.

Posted by: sleeping in my party dress | Sep 4, 2008 4:44:49 PM

Poor Kevin just -can't- catch a break on this one! Halloween can't come fast enough, though.

Posted by: Rebecca B. | Sep 4, 2008 9:43:41 PM

Zack and Miri can certainly get ahead of eachother.

I'm surprised they weren't forced to change porno to adult movie. Everything seems to be too politically correct these day.. No humour allowed.

Posted by: | Sep 5, 2008 7:55:09 AM

This poster blows. Bad puns aside, I think this is a great ad, and wish people wouldn't be so damn uptight about this sort of thing.

Posted by: Joe Reis | Sep 20, 2008 8:37:18 PM

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