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Porky's (1982)
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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...
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Porky's Movie Review by Zara  (12/11/2008) |
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You know, thinking back on this movie I remembered it as being a "dirty" movie (that meaning including jokes with nudity and talking about the unspeakable penis) and that as a youngun' I didn't really get it or think that it was very funny.
Watching it with adult eyes, I really don't get it. PORKY'S is crude, stupidly...
(complete Porky's review by Zara)
Film director Bob Clark's 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...
(complete Porky's review by Movie Addict)
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