The Cinema for 10/31/08: Seth Rogen Is Soon Becoming Another Will Ferell

Photo from the movie, via the NY Daily News

Seth Rogen, i know you want to cash in from "Knocked Up" and "SuperBad", but please stop. You are over-saturating yourself, and this is the second movie in a row, after Pineapple Express, where your original and funny crude humor now just isn't that funny anymore.

Not a surprise most feel "ZAck and Miri" isn't that good:

I have nothing against the cheerfully crude nature of "Zack and Miri Make a Porno." Before Judd Apatow, before "South Park," even before the Farrelly brothers, it was Smith's "Clerks" that exposed the delirious potential of shock value.
But without the wit, raunchiness tends to feel uncomfortably forced. And the moments when "Z&M" works are, almost without exception, the ones that are more sweet than shocking. All the rest, frankly, feel like Apatow Lite.

But knowing Rogen, he is trying to cash in as much as possible. And he is headed on the road to doing stupid roles like Will Ferrell has done, and potentially hurting his early accomplishments.