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Street Date: 05/22/07
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Porky's
Reviled by critics and embraced by the public during its initial
run (1981), Porky's is interesting to watch after all these
years. What holds up about this horny coming-of-age tale is
remarkable. Writer/director Bob Clark has little more than sex
and practical joking on his mind, and his high school seniors
from Angel Beach, Florida, rapidly move from one to the other.
Clark displays a sense of timing and, perhaps rarer still, a
sense of male friendship--its brutalities and its bonds--that
feels right, not artificial. Surprisingly, the showcase practical
jokes are still funny: the Everglades encounter with Cherry
Forever, the hole in the girls' shower, and Beulah Balbricker,
the humongous gym teacher. The comedic set-ups and payoffs
surprisingly still work. Clark's insistence on a subplot about
anti-Semitism, however, still sticks out as A MESSAGE. Kim
Cattrall really got her start here (although almost no one else
did) as Ms. Honeywell, a.k.a. "Lassie." Clark later distanced
himself from the irritating Porky's sequels and went on to make
the wonderful Christmas Story, the tale of a little boy who wants
a BB for Christmas. --Keith Simanton
Porky's II: The Next Day
The inevitable sequel to the surprise hit movie marks a
noticeable change in tone, as the horny kids from the first film
fight religious fanatics in order to put on a stage show. Though
the gang is still as mischievous as they were the night before,
most of the raunchy humor from the first film has been dropped.
In its place are some surprisingly effective passages dealing
bluntly with sex, love, anti-Semitism, and religious tolerance in
the repressed South of the 1950s. It's this turn that makes the
sequel a surprise and something distinctive from its predecessor.
--Robert Lane
Porky's Revenge
Bare s, practical jokes, greaser hairdos, and cars with
big fins--it must be another Porky's movie! Porky's Revenge
continues to fuse sexploitation and 1950s nostalgia, though by
this point the adolescent hijinks feel a bit rote. On the verge
of graduation, Pee Wee, Meat, and the other three interchangeable
guys (winnowed down from the larger gang of the first two movies)
try to help their basketball coach out of a jam by revealing to
the authorities that , foul-tempered Porky has rebuilt his
illegal casino/whorehouse--but when they get caught, they promise
Porky they'll throw the state championship to save their lives.
This flimsy plot is intertwined with other disconnected bits
about Pee Wee having the hots for a foreign exchange student
(Playboy Playmate Kim Evenson), Meat being forced to marry
Porky's daughter, a contraband stag film, a biology teacher with
a sideline as a dominatrix, and of course the eternal presence of
women's coach Beulah Balbricker (Nancy Parsons), that towering
mixture of prudery and repressed lust. Writer/director Bob Clark
had nothing to do with this sequel, so it's unsurprising that the
genuine fondness he brought to the characters is long gone; now
they're just generic horndog teenagers. Still, most fans of the
series rate this one higher than Porky's II: The Next Day. --Bret
Fetzer