Judd Apatow

...mating dance ("Forgetting Sarah Marshall," "Zack and Miri Make a Porno"). Not for nothing did movie bloggers herald Shelton as the female Judd Apatow. If Spike Lee could rise above the "black Woody Allen" claims that greeted "She's...

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...turgid mainstream? While Kevin Smith could never be labeled with the M-word, his recent film, Zack & Miri Make a Porno starred two mainstream superstars of the Apatow elite: Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks. Rogen's Zack said it best...

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...mise-en-scene, or is it a gloved dig at archrival P.T. Anderson's Boogie Nights? Either way, Zack and Miri quickly weaves past and present members of the adult industry (wry Traci Lords, bubbly Katie Morgan) into its ensemble of...

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...what Judd Apatow has. Using elements of the New Jersey director's brilliant comedies Clerks and Chasing Amy, Apatow built a foul-mouthed comedy empire where Smith's films always fell short of major box-office success. As the film opens this...

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...want to look at it. Very much of a piece with Kevin Smith's previous down-and-dirty working-stiff comedies, the raucous humor here also neatly dovetails with the pants-down funny stuff recently popularized by Judd Apatow. That, and the...

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...resembles Apatow classics like "Superbad" or "Knocked Up." Then there's the casting. "Zack and Miri" stars Apatow's go-to guy, Rogen, and enlists actors familiar to comedy lovers from having appeared in Apatow-produced films: Robinson (...

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This Vancouver boy first rumbled onto the scene in Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks, then rode the Apatow train to The 40-Year-Old Virgin and points north: Superbad, Pineapple Express, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and Observe and Report. Now...

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...feels born of design, not desire. Despite some scabrously funny dialogue, "Zack and Miri" can't compete with the best of the Apatow comedies, which have wrung finer variations on the moves Smith pioneered. Which puts him in the odd position...

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...past, he's on track to break his personal best at the box office. Filmmakers such as Apatow who followed Smith's sensibility routinely cross the $100 million mark. But Kevin Smith films rarely clear $30 million. Zack and Miri could be...

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