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Porky's the Ultimate Collection
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Genre | Comedy |
Format | Multiple Formats, Color, Box set, NTSC |
Contributor | Wendy Feign, Bob Clark, Tony Ganios, Ziggy Steinberg, James Komack, Alan Ormsby, Mark Herrier, Nancy Parsons, Scott Colomby, Eric Christmas, Fred Buch, Wyatt Knight, Dan Monahan, Chuck Mitchell, Roger Swaybill, Rose McVeigh, Kaki Hunter See more |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 3 |
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Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 05/22/07
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve
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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 gun 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 breasts, 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 fat, 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
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 8.8 ounces
- Item model number : 1204994096
- Director : Bob Clark, James Komack
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, Box set, NTSC
- Run time : 4 hours and 49 minutes
- Release date : May 22, 2007
- Actors : Dan Monahan, Wyatt Knight, Mark Herrier, Tony Ganios, Kaki Hunter
- Studio : 20th Century Fox
- ASIN : B000O76ZNU
- Writers : Alan Ormsby, Bob Clark, Roger Swaybill, Ziggy Steinberg
- Number of discs : 3
- Best Sellers Rank: #22,306 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2,663 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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He had wanted to do "A Christmas Story" for years, but he was relatively new and no one wanted to take any chances. After Porky's however, MGM contacted Clark, asking him to make it with them. And a legend is born.
This movie is hilarious. If you love raunchy comedy then this is for you.
There's lots of reviews about the movie you can read online elsewhere, but take it from me, grab this to forget all about 2020 for 6 hours.
The second and third movies, Porky's II and Porky's Revenge never did live up to the first movie. Clark bowed out of the franchise after the second movie, and by the third movie, none of the actors could pass for teenagers in their senior year of high school. Both the first movie and the second movie dealt with the racist south. The second movie especially lampoons the KKK and the racist southern preachers with the story set around the fact that a Native American transfer student was cast as Romeo - alongside a Caucasian Juliet in the high school play, and the protagonists taking down the racists. The third movie, released in 1985 was about Porky blackmailing the Angel Beach basketball team as revenge for the kids destroying his club in the first movie.
As far as the DVDs go, the set has all three movies on separate discs. The first movie has the most extras, with the commentary track by Bob Clark being the most extensive, and then a 13-minute making-of documentary. Then, each disc has the trailer and some tv spots for the respective movies. Definitely not as much as some box set releases get, but given that none of the movies were a critical success, that is not all that surprising.
Overall, the first movie is good and the other two fall in quality. There is a lot of nudity in each movie, including full-frontal nudity from both men and women, which was highly controversial back then. The themes of racism and antisemitism in the first two movies would be much more of a big deal now, and chances are the movies could not get made the same way today as they did back then. Porky's Revenge is more of a straight-up comedy (and is also the worst of the three). None of the movies were as good as other coming-of-age-teen comedies or dramedies of the era like Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Sixteen Candles, but it was definitely a precursor to the more raunch teen comedies like American Pie that would come out years later. For most people, the movies will be a nostalgic blast from the past, and for that, this is a good set.
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De discs zijn geen regio 2 en ze bevatten geen Nederlandse ondertiteling.
Pas na het volledig uitpakken uit de box, kan je zien dat het een NTSC DVD is, geen regio 2 en geen NL ondertiteling heeft. Op de box cover en op de Amazon site staan deze zaken NIET vermeld... Zonde!