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Summary: The Quintessential Teen-Age Pervert Flick
Review: This movie is awe inspiring. These highschool kids spend the movie trying to get into sexual encounters, be a peeping tom, and go to strip clubs. But when they go to "Porky's" deep in the bayou, they get in a little more trouble then they can handle. Lots of tastless jokes and trash talk, so don't get this film if your conservative.
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Summary: Absolutely Hilarious!
Review: Between all the plot oddities lies one of the most underrated comedies of all time. Offers some of the funniest moment ever captured on film including infamous shower scene.
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Summary: The nadir of western culture
Review: I can't think of a worse movie. It, in itself, was dull, pre-adolescent, and unoriginal. What's worse is that it spawned not only sequels, but copy-cat dirty-underwear movies for years. AMERICAN PIE can be blamed on this boring waste of celluloid.
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Summary: One of the funniest movies I have ever seen
Review: Being a big fan of these movies, raunchy and hilarious. I was recommended watching Porky's, having heard of it but never actually watching it I went and rented it. I laughed so hard!!! It was definetely worth watching, and I'm going to purchase it as well. I was looking for the sequels, and Porky's 3 aka. Porky's Revenge is not in DVD format. Guess it's because it isn't as good.
SEE IT!
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Summary: A Classic, No Matter What People Say!
Review: Understatedly brilliant, "Porky's" surreptitiously imprinted 1980s cinema with a stunning underground nuclear explosion of social consciousness and commentary disguised as a delightful teen comedy. The multi-faceted themes of sexuality, racism and anti-semitism pulsed below a seemingly hilarious plot, inciting a subliminal surge for social justice. Even touching obliquely on the problems of criminal justice and recidivism, not to mention exploring the turmoil and tension within our public education system at the high school level, this superlative film was a raw egg in the face demanding that the world wake up and face its problems.
The actors' performances were delightful. Kim Cattrall was exemplary as a female coach seeking equality for women -- an on-film embodiment of the first stirrings of Title IX, if you will. The boys were... well, let's just say that boys will be boys, and there's no such thing as a bad one. All of these celluoid thespians went on to greater things, but you have to know that, deep in their hearts, they will all consider "Porky's" the finest, most socially redeeming and valuable piece of work they ever performed during their entire careers.
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Summary: Simply The Best
Review: Porky's is one very funny movie! Especially the scene in which Miss Balbricker explains to the principal & the coaches about having a line-up of five boys exposing their private parts! Look for Kim Cattrall as Miss Honeywell, Alex Karras as a crooked sheriff & his wife Susan Clark as a backwoods hooker. Pee-Wee & the gang get their revenge on Porky after he rips them off & throws them out of his nightclub. Director Bob Clark does a real good job in keeping things moving along & does an excellent job in dealing with anti-semitism involving new student Brian Schwartz (Scott Colomby). This movie is a genuine classic. Simply the best!
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Summary: Howard Stern wants to remake THIS?
Review: Howard Stern has inked a deal to remake this movie.
Maybe this time it will be funny.
I've never liked this movie. After ANIMAL HOUSE and CADDYSHACK, I thought this was a big step down in rowdy comedies.I didn't like any of the characters and would've enjoyed seeing them further victimized by the corrupt hillbillies at Porky's bar. There was just something smug and smarmy about their attempts to have sex. And I never thought what they did was as funny as they did. They crack themselves up the whole movie.
It made me realize that what really works in comedy is when the characters DON'T find their predicaments so hilarious.
(Although the old principal cackling at the gym teacher's description of the shower scene was funny). When the movie tries to find something to say (about anti-Semitism), it comes off as clunky and definitely unfunny.
On the prurient side, one of my buddies was disgusted by the abundance of male nudity. "Come on, who wants to see all these naked guys running around!" I know humor is highly subjective, but I never liked PORKY's. And the sequels? Forget about it.
But I did like THE HOLLYWOOD KNIGHTS.
Go figure.
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Summary: A comedic classic, but is it art?
Review: "Porky's" was well-known for years after its release; I must have been about six years old, but by the time I hit grade four, guys were still talking about it. By then, I had another classic raunchfest to represent my generation ("Revenge Of The Nerds"), but "Porky's" need take no truck from later pretenders to the throne. Director Bob Clark went on to direct other films, including two progressively worse sequels, but this one will forever stand the test of time. Kim Cattrall is immortalized as 'Miss "Lassie" Honeywell' in the 2nd funniest section of the movie, and Dan Monahan may never live down being typecast as "Pee Wee", but over twenty years later, the jokes still work. The T&A doesn't tittilate as much now as it did then, but you can still imagine teen boys laughing hysterically the first time they watch it. I will confess to having a bit of sentimental feelings for this film, hence the 3 star rating. A lousy movie, yes. But endlessly watchable. Live with the hypocrisy.
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