
For the second time in recent history, I left an R-rated comedy feeling really happy. First
Kevin Smith's crass, dirty film about low-budget porn turns out to be rather sweet, and now
Role Models. Though full of crude language and nasty jokes, the movie is really a twisted sort of coming-of-age story — for the adult characters more than the kids — that's ultimately heartwarming.

Don't get me wrong:
Zack and Miri Make a Porno is extremely disgusting at times. But I expected that. I didn't expect it to be quite so sweet or touching (in the emotional way, gutter mind).

No matter your political persuasion, most can agree that the presidency of George W. Bush is concluding on a low and solemn note, the full consequences of his years in office still unknown. There is no doubt he is one of the most controversial figures of a generation, and his life will provide vast and fertile ground for dramatists someday.

So here it is: the "red-band" — aka "super inappropriate for work, especially if the sound is on" — version of the trailer for Kevin Smith's
Zack and Miri Make a Porno, one of the 13 movies I'm
most excited to see this Fall. There's actually not too much in there all of us adults haven't heard before in a Rogen flick (you know, a lot of f-bombs and explicit language used to describe both male and female genitalia). And since
Smith fought hard for and won the right to give this movie an R rating instead of NC-17, we know the movie will never get all that crass.