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Classic, 12 August 2002
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(dehrhart)
First R-Rated movie that I ever saw, I still remember the night at my grandparents with their free weekend of HBO, me sitting in the dark with the volume turned so low I am not sure if I could even hear it. I was 12 at the time and I still remember changing the channel at 1 o'clock in the morning thinking I just heard my grandfather get up. A truly funny movie.
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A true comedy classic, 6 October 2000
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Jack Smith - The King Of Horror from West Bromwich, England
One of the greatest comedies ever made! Porky's is an absolute joy to watch full with extremely funny gags and wonderfully rude set pieces including "that" legendary shower scene which has to be seen to be believed. This film just puts modern rip-offs such as American Pie to shame with it's unrivaled hilarity. Wonderful! If you have never seen this brilliant film then you haven't lived. This is one of the most enjoyable films that I have ever seen.
80's Classic to me,, 18 April 2013
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atinder from United Kingdom
First Time I saw this movie was 6 years ago and it was not TV, I
actually shocked that never heard even seen this movie before.
I was in my bed night ready for bed, I did movie started, I could not
stop laughing at all (This 12am , everyone else in house was sleep) I
did wake them laugh my Head off.
I found the whole movie funny from start to end, Yes some these Joke
can ready rude at times.
I yet this movie dose some very mild nudity scenes, which not on for
too long.
The acting was great from whole cast, I can't believe I saw this movie
SO late in life.
Next Day I brought this on DVD back to Back with Porky's 2
10 out 10
This movie is for the pigs. Oink! Oink!, 28 March 2013
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ironhorse_iv from United States
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The American pie of the 1980'S, and like American Pie (1999) somewhat unfunny. But this Bob Clark movie isn't American at all, it's an Canadian film, so Porky's can be classed as one of the highest-grossing Canadian film of all time in Canada's domestic box office, with over the total of $111Million CDN. Set in the 1950's, the film charts the usual round of high school jerks who's sole purpose in life is getting laid with seems more trouble than it's worth. There was just something smug and smarmy about their attempts to have sex that makes you wish that they get what deserves for their pre-adolescent actions. The actors don't even look like they belong in high school nor does they look like they should be allow to be on school grounds with such stalking and pervert like actions. If this was a real life, their actions would have leaded to criminal convictions and require them to register as sex offenders for the rest of their lives. I don't like films that glorifies their actions. The adults in this film are not better. For somebody running a school in high school in Eisenhower Conservatism America, their principal makes light of the boys actions. To make matters worse, the two male gym teacher are not making it any easier by snickering to themselves. It is simply a teen exploitation film put together by a bunch of adults with actors in their early twenties pretending to be high school kids and adults being children. It's hard to sympathize with them with all the unappealingly misogynistic and vile. You want them to get hurt by the end. It doesn't matter, if it's the girl's school shower room antics, where one of the gang actually gets a lot more than he bargained for or Porky's nightclub who humiliates the kids and steal their money. This movie is so raunchy, but it's less about sex, but more about revenge against the people that does them, wrong. Most of the movie is trying to get revenge against Porky's nightclub. There is a sub plot saying that people of different religions and beliefs need to more understanding. Wow, that's seems out of place. Was this thrown in to make it socially relevant? It's doesn't help the movie when its show cast more nudity, than social tolerance. There is a lot of nudity, both male and female. Sadly sex sells, even if the jokes are awful. The T&A doesn't titillate as much now as it did then, but you can still imagine teen boys laughing hysterically the first time they watch it. It's not what one would call a deep or engrossing movie though. It lacks the complexity and genius of an Animal House or American Graffiti. Both based on 1950's teenager sex-life. The movie has two familiar characters that audience will remember most, which are Edward "Pee Wee" Morris (Dan Monahan) who is the funniest of the group, despite being a one dimension character. Pee Wee is so named because of his little man part, and inability to score. Another would be Coach Beulah Balbricker (Nancy Parsons) who borderline cartoony with her butch female coach look. Another note character would be Kim Cattrall as Miss Honeywell. Miss Honeywell earns her legendary nickname of Lassie, the description of the wanted poster for the male private part. Don't get me wrong, I have an sense of humor, but overall, this film a sexist and primitive film, whom never either condones or rejects their behavior. I just can't watch this film any more than once. Unfortunately it spawned 2 bad sequels as well. Not worth it, in my watch list.
Pork this, 5 December 2012
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PeterMitchell-506-564364 from Australia
Porky's deserves to be credited as a good teen comedy. Many years before American Pie came along, this little treasure did. The actors here, most who never went on to anything, are so good and damn believable, they simply melt into their characters. Sadly one actor, Wyatt Knight, a.k.a. Tommy Turner, the impish teen who was always at war with Ms Beulah Ballbreaker, the overweight female soccer coach, topped himself last year as suffering from some cancer. One guy, pee wee (Dan Monahan) the laughing butt of his friends, wants so desperately to get laid, one classic hoax scene near the start of the movie, has him scared out of his wits, running down a highway, naked. He even has a penis chart he keeps tabs on. At the advice of one of their friends, where his own advice nearly gets him half dead, they head to this bordello out in the Florida glades run by fat corrupt owner, Porky, who's brother runs the sheriff house next door, just as corrupt. Porky's promising them a night to remember, rips them off, the most cheesed off of the boys, Mick (Roger Wilson?). The Sheriff even smashes up Mick's car a little, to stretch his warning, to never return. Mick goes back and back, obsessed with getting even with Porky, the second time, the most dramatic, with him ending up in the hospital, so a certain revenge awaits, as the boys of Angel Beach with a help from authorities (Mick's brother a cop) get revenge, two fold and pee wee finally gets laid. Porky's is not all a comedy. It has a little drama, where a little is to be said about racism too. One of the new kids, Brian, a Jewish boy, isn't accepted by one of the mob, Steve, because of this. But we see why. Steve's dad, a real piece of .... has drummed it into him as well as his fists where he's a regular punching bag of his Dad's. Porky's is better than a lot of sex comedies, whether it's Up The Creek, Where The Boys Are, or the unbelievably cheesy and degrading, Screwballs. It's a sex comedy on a higher plane of worth, dealing with real characters and real issues. The eye peeking scene through the girls shower block is funny, but what will really crack you up, so much, you almost feel like you're having a heart attack is the next one. Ms Beulah Ballbreaker, such a miserable so and so, who pulled onto something she shouldn't of, is describing to the small and gawky principal, 70's, in great length the incident, but more so her plan of strategy which has the three basketball coaches in the background, in fits of laughter as this scene will have you. It's one of the funniest scenes in movie history. One head, drowning in a bowl of chili scene, may put you off it for good, plus witness the world's biggest rubber, that fits perfectly over Pee Wee's head.
a bona fide comedy classic, the American pie of the 80's, 5 May 2012
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daworldismine from United Kingdom
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as a teen sex comedy porky's is miles above the rest, in fact the only movie too touch it was 1999's American pie. everything about this movie is brilliant, its truly hilarious, the set pieces, the dialogue, all the cast are brilliant, and the script while not art, for what it is, is very well written. following the antics of a group of sex obsessed teens from angel beach high, we follow them on all kinds of hilarious escapades, i could just tell you all about the funniest parts, but why, if you haven't seen it, i don't want to give anything away, the main lead though 'pee wee' is one of the funniest characters in any comedy, and his misadventures are laugh out loud hilarious, as are all the other character like 'meat' 'tommy' 'billy' 'brian' 'wendy', and unlike most teen comedies of the 80's they seem like real people, talking like real people, a must see comedy i highly recommend
More than just a teen sex comedy, 14 March 2011
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Leofwine_draca from United Kingdom
The well-remembered PORKY'S was the American Pie of its day, a
sequel-spawning popular hit about a group of male students and their
encounters with the opposite sex. Seen today, it's a film that hasn't
dated too much, which may be due in part to the clever decision to set
it in the 1950s (much like GREASE).
Obviously, sex and nudity play a part in the film, but it all feels
underplayed and no longer shocking, especially in comparison to the
latest gross-out humour filling the multiplexes. The jokes are tame and
the emphasis isn't on titillation but rather humour stemming from the
libidos of the central characters. The surprise is that this is
actually an entertaining, well thought out movie with a heart. It
addresses coming-of-age issues and it looks at racism, revenge and
familial abuse in a matter-of-fact way that many an '80s teen film
aspires to. Kudos to director Bob Clark (BLACK Christmas), seemingly at
home in any genre.
Growing pains, 12 September 2010
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jotix100 from New York
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The years of the last Eisenhower administration loom large in this
story about a group of teenagers in high school that, at the time it
was released, caused quite a stir by its irreverent dialogue and
situations not shown in a typical film directed to that age group. The
students from Angel Beach, Florida, were addicted to sex in whatever
way they could get it. They get inventive in ways that some of their
contemporaries never thought possible.
On second viewing, Bob Clark's 1982 "Porky's", still packs a punch in
the way the people depicted went about their salad days getting into
all kinds of problems. The frank talk in the film will turn off, and
may be offensive to a lot of viewers. Mr. Clark captures the mentality
of the times vividly, right down to the way most of these kids viewed
their lives, and that of others.
Nancy Parsons made a mean coach Balbricker. Kim Cattrall, who went to
bigger and better things, and Kaki Hunter, one of the trashiest teens
ever seen on a film, are good. Dan Monahan, Scott Colomby, Susan Clark,
Alex Karras, and the rest of the large cast do fine work for Bob Clark.
Robert Clark (In Memorial), 5 April 2007
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lastliberal from United States
Film director Bob Clark, best known for the holiday classic "A
Christmas Story," was killed with his son Wednesday in a head-on crash
with a vehicle that a drunken driver steered into the wrong lane,
police and the filmmaker's assistant said.
His breakout success came with this film.
It is Florida in the 50s and Pee Wee (Dan Monahan) desperately wants to
get laid. His friends arrange trip to Porky's, a redneck sleaze joint
built over a mangrove swamp (a sad disappearing thing in Florida).
Check out Boyd Gaines' pursuit of Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall; and
the scenes with Ms. Ballbreaker (Nancy Parsons. Robert Clark directs a
well-paced film which also includes a glimpse of ethnic prejudice and
class difference. Sure, it's crude humor focusing on penises and
getting laid, but it's harmless fun.
A must watch guy comedy, 21 December 2006
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Jsimpson5 from United States
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I first watched this film my senior year in high school, and it remains
one of my favorite movies of all time.
The movie is about some high school friends who try to have sex and
also get into a 21+ strip club called Porky's. When they do get in they
are kicked out by the owner and plan a revenge to get back at Porky.
This movie is full of stereotypes (Meat, the jock, Wendy the town slut,
Brian, the Jewish teenager who knows how to fight, Pee Wee, the guy who
all he wants is to have sex, etc).
This movie has some of the funniest scenes I have every seen. I had to
pause the movie while I was watching it, because I laughing so hard I
was crying. This movie is must for all guys to watch. You will not be
disappointed.
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