{"id":2098,"date":"2024-08-06T03:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2024-10-14T12:35:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T16:35:52","slug":"porkys-ii-the-next-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/08\/06\/porkys-ii-the-next-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Porky\u2019s II: The Next Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Porky\u2019s II: The Next Day <\/strong>(1983)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20th<\/sup> Century Fox\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 98 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (sexual content and references, brief nudity, language, racist comments, an off-screen beating)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Bob Clark\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Roger Swaybill, Alan Ormsby and Bob Clark\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Karl Zittrer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Reginald H. Morris\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: June 24, 1983 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Dan Monahan, Wyatt Knight, Mark Herrier, Roger Wilson, Cyril O\u2019Reilly, Tony Ganios, Kaki Hunter, Scott Colomby, Nancy Parsons, Joseph Running Fox, Eric Christmas, Bill Wiley, Edward Winter, Ilse Earl, Cisse Cameron, Art Hindle, Rod Ball, Bill Hindman, Mal Jones, Richard Liberty, Fred Buch, Chuck Wahl, Melanie Grefe.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $33.7M (US)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0I have a BIG question about Porky\u2019s II: The Next Day<\/strong>, the inevitable sequel to the previous year\u2019s surprise comedy hit. Okay, so if it\u2019s \u201cthe next day\u201d, why isn\u2019t anybody talking about what happened the night before? Nobody ever refers to the events leading up to and involving the takedown of Porky\u2019s even though it was such a huge deal in the first movie that the school band even showed up to take part in the subsequent festivities. Did everybody at Angel Beach High (and the surrounding community) develop a sudden, simultaneous case of amnesia? The only thing anybody seems to remember is that Pee Wee (Monahan) finally got laid. In case anyone in the audience didn\u2019t remember this momentous event, the first words spoken in the movie (by Pee Wee, of course) are \u201cI got laid!\u201d Great! Now that we\u2019re all up to speed, let\u2019s talk about Porky\u2019s II: The Next Day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I described the first Porky\u2019s as a \u201cdirty movie\u201d and I stand by that characterization. I can\u2019t say if returning director Bob Clark was pressured by the studio to tone things down, but Porky\u2019s II: The Next Day<\/strong> is merely obscene and vulgar. This time, it isn\u2019t all about horny guys on the prowl, peeking at naked girls in the shower and other such things. No, it\u2019s more like a raunchy variation of an old \u201cLet\u2019s put on a show!\u201d movie from the 30s or 40s. In the case of Porky\u2019s II: The Next Day<\/strong>, it\u2019s more of a \u201cLet\u2019s save the show!\u201d movie. Save it from what? Good question, glad you asked!<\/p>\n

\u00a0The whole gang is back; Pee Wee, Tommy (the late Knight), Billy (Herrier), Wendy (Hunter), Mickey (Wilson), Tim (O\u2019Reilly), Meat (Ganios) and Brian (Colomby). Many of them are involved in a Shakespeare festival being put on by the school\u2019s drama club. Unfortunately, there are certain parties that would rather the show didn\u2019t go on. The one making the most noise is Reverend Bubba Flavel (Wiley), a self-righteous fire-and-brimstone preacher who believes the Bard is unsuitable for high school students. He and his \u201cflock\u201d start a campaign to shut it down. Naturally, he\u2019s joined in his mission by none other than female gym coach Beulah Balbricker (Parsons). The KKK also wants the production shut down because they cast a Seminole student, John Henry (Running Fox), as Romeo to Wendy\u2019s Juliet. Local politicians get involved at the behest of Flavel. One of them, Gebhardt (Winter, M*A*S*H), has the hots for Wendy. He initially agrees to help the kids, but reneges upon learning it could affect his upcoming reelection. Naturally, the Angel Beach gang comes up with yet another elaborate revenge plan.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Another plotline has Pee Wee and Wendy (the girl to whom he lost his virginity) becoming romantically involved. Now that he\u2019s had her in the Biblical sense, he wants to protect her reputation. He no longer wants to hear how easy she is from everybody at school. He also wants revenge against Billy, Tommy and Mickey (who seems to have completely recovered overnight from his injuries at the hands of Porky and his goons) for the Cherry Forever prank. Here\u2019s another area where Porky\u2019s II: The Next Day<\/strong> falters. Pee Wee devises an elaborate prank at a local cemetery involving a carnival dancer posing as a woman called \u201cGraveyard Gloria\u201d who gets turned on by graveyards. The set-up takes too long. Then it gets confusing when the guys, on to Pee Wee\u2019s joke, arrange a counter-prank with the same woman. By the time it actually happens, it\u2019s not all that funny. Or believable, for that matter. Whereas the Cherry Forever prank had a big angry black dude with a machete, the Graveyard Gloria one has a fellow student made up as a zombie. It\u2019s just dumb.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Despite its shortcomings, Porky\u2019s II: The Next Day<\/strong> is actually pretty good. I can\u2019t be too hard on a movie where the actors have trouble keeping straight faces. You can see them trying hard not to crack up in a few scenes. It shows a good rapport among the main cast members. As for the movie itself, it has its funny moments like the scene where the guys prank Balbricker with a snake while she\u2019s on the toilet. It figures she\u2019d sing while she\u2019s on the toilet.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I\u2019m not sure what it says about me but I laughed at Porky\u2019s II: The Next Day<\/strong> far more than I should have. The revenge they exact against all offending parties is funny in a silly sort of way. Wendy adopts the persona of a cartoonish bimbo replete with big balloons (filled with fake vomit) for breasts. And wait until you see what they do to the KKK members*.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Like its predecessor, it\u2019s not high art but it\u2019s still better than the likes of Unfinished Business and Sausage Party. The romance between Pee Wee (kind of a sex-obsessed Wally Cleaver) and Wendy is sort of cute. I still laugh out loud when I hear Principal Carter (Christmas) scream \u201cGet the flock out of here!\u201d at Flavel and his followers. Porky\u2019s II: The Next Day<\/strong> isn\u2019t as dirty as the first movie, but it still has a dirty mind. It\u2019s tailor-made for 13YO boys and those with the mentality of one (writer excluded, of course).<\/p>\n

*= I won\u2019t go into detail but this is how I learned the meanings of bris<\/em>, mohel<\/em> and izmel<\/em>. Who says movies aren\u2019t educational?<\/p>\n

TRIVIA TIDIT: In the scene where Billy and John Henry perform the sword fight from MacBeth, the fishnet stocking mannequin leg John Henry uses when his sword breaks is the actual leg lamp from A Christmas Story, also directed by Bob Clark and being filmed at the same time.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Porky\u2019s II: The Next Day (1983)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20th Century Fox\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 98 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (sexual content and references, brief nudity, language, racist comments, an off-screen beating)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Bob Clark\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Roger Swaybill, Alan Ormsby and Bob Clark\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Karl Zittrer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Reginald H. Morris\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: June 24, 1983 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Dan Monahan, Wyatt Knight, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Porkys-II-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2884,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}