This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place
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... View MoreWhat a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.
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... View MoreIt's hard to believe, that this movie takes place the next day, after you know.... but again too, it's hard to believe the actors are still in their teens, but back then in the eighties, that's how it went. Porky's 2 has as some moments (assets) that are pure gold, I won't ruin, but they're rib ticking funny, some moments, no matter how many times you watch it. What's strikingly different about this one is it's turn of original story, that has a not half bad plot, involving the Ku Klux Clan. Yes, Peewee has become a man, but let's move on, yes, past the traditional penis chart check opening. The students of Angel Beach High, are putting on a theatre show, which include some of our favorite students, but when the show's sabotaged, on account of he male lead being an an Indian, it attracts a not so hospitable folk, including Ms Balbreaker (Parsons), who bare some pretty bad and bitter prejudice. There's some real lessons to be learn't here, and who would think this movie, would be the one, but still this doesn't compare with the originality and freshness of the first, despite this one having some genuine qualities, and some absolute screams of laughter scenes, in a somewhat calmer Porky's film. It just, if enigmatically boils down to an average pic, and I didn't say comedy. Again as for the future of our Porky's performers, it's a pity, nearly all of their careers, sunk, in the years after. It sort of runs parallel to one of Wendy's lines, "After you Peewee, where's a girl to go?". "After these Porky's films, where's an actor to go?" The last drawn out (trademark) scene is a killer hoot, with Hunter's fake goodies, that shoot out vomit.
... View MoreWriter/director Bob Clark must've made a mint from his box office smash Porky's, so I can't really blame him for capitalising on his success with a guaranteed cash-cow sequel that repeats the same formula of dumb pranks and penis gags, while once again throwing in some racial tension to drive the story. What I do blame him for is making the film such a laugh-free mess, while toning down the raunchiness, one of the few factors that made the first Porky's bearable.No-one in Porky's II gets laid: they're too busy prancing around on stage in a dreadful Shakespearian high-school production, which brings them to blows with a local evangelist Reverend Flavel (Bill Wiley), who deems the show obscene, the KKK, who object to Seminole Indian John Henry (Joseph Runningfox) playing the part of Romeo, and sleazy county commissioner Gebhardt (Edward Winter), who tries to seduce Pee Wee's girlfriend Wendy (Kaki Hunter). Cue lots of desperate gags that involve someone dressed as a George Romero-style zombie, an exotic dancer dubbed Graveyard Gloria (Cisse Cameron), a sword-fight with a mannequin's leg, a snake in a toilet bowl, and fake vomit.3.5/10, rounded up to 4 for IMDb.
... View MoreThough many people refuse to laugh at the original, this quickly produced sequel is difficult for even die-hard fans of the series to laugh at. Back are all the same characters (except Porky!) but missing are the funny situations and much of the previous film's charm. What we're left with is a heavy-handed story about religious fanatics and the KKK trying to disrupt a Shakespeare festival at the kids' school. There are a few very funny moments, but nothing like we saw the first time around.Bob Clark was also in the midst of making A Christmas Story at the time. In fact the "major award" from that film can be found in one scene in this film. Maybe he was distracted. Maybe the fact that he shared the writing duties with two other people this time also caused problems. However you slice it, the laughs just aren't there.Our story begins (like the title says) the very next morning after the boys destroyed Porky's nightclub. Curious though how Micky, who was on crutches and had bandages all over his face from a previous visit to the infamous club, now is all healed and looks normal! It's goofs like this that make you wonder why on Earth they needed to have the story continue the very next day. Especially since the story in this film in no way has anything to do with what happened in the previous film. There are other problems we must take a look at....Porky's II seems to have more naked men than women! I cannot recall a mainstream film with more male frontal nudity. And most of it is from old men! It's hard to fathom who the target audience was for this type of material. Some of the pranks the boys commit in this film are just mean-spirited. We all know the female gym teacher Miss Balbricker is a bitch, but sending a snake up the toilet she's sitting on may be going too far. It's more creepy than funny. And how anyone but perhaps an experienced plumber could know exactly what pipe to put the snake into so it would come up through the right toilet is beyond me.The film also suffers from trying to take itself too seriously. Sure the KKK are a bunch of skunks, but taking them on wouldn't seem like a laughing matter. Especially back in the 1950s when this film takes place. You could really get killed for messing around with those guys.There are some nuggets of humor to be found if you dig in the right place, though. There is a hilarious scene in a graveyard where Pee Wee is made a fool of when he thinks he has the upper hand. Seeing what eventually happens to the KKK members is also worth a good chuckle.The film made a nice chunk of change, but nothing like part 1. If you're looking for additional laughs, give Porky's Revenge a try. That film is decidedly less self-righteous, and gives the gang plenty of zany things to get mixed up in. A nice return to the roots of the series, you could say.The 4.0 this film is scoring sounds about right to the Hound. 4 of 10 stars for Porky's II.
... View MoreOur gang of "teenagers"(using teenagers loosely) at Angel Beach High School are now butting heads with a fundamental minister with a flock of locals supporting him, the city commission, and the klu klux klan. It's all over, believe it or not, a Shakespearean festival considered "obscene." The Klan have a problem with a Native American tribe in the area with one of their own, a student, in the Shakespeare play taking place in the school auditorium. Sufficed to say, the teens get their revenge when the festival is temporarily halted by the power of the city commission who fear for their political careers thanks in part to the reverend's clout with the community at large. Filthy language and sex-on-the-brain dialogue as in the first film, but less nudity. Worth seeing if just for Meat in drag and Pee Wee dressed as a green fairy. Porky's absence kind of takes away from this sequel, but Balbricker as a devoted "member of the flock" is kind of funny. Probably the most laugh-out-loud moment for me is when the boys play a trick on poor Pee Wee in the graveyard which results in him streaking down a country road afraid he had killed a woman via heart attack! Balbricker's snake incident in a bathroom thanks to the boys in an act of revenge because of her participation against their Shakespeare festival is another highlight.
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