{"id":2100,"date":"2024-08-06T03:12:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T03:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2024-10-14T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T16:36:08","slug":"porkys-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/08\/06\/porkys-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Porky\u2019s Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Porky\u2019s Revenge <\/strong>(1985)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20th<\/sup> Century Fox\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 92 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, nudity, sexual content, some violence)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: James Komack\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Ziggy Steinberg\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Dave Edmunds\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Robert C. Jessup\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 22, 1985 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Kaki Hunter, Tony Ganios, Scott Colomby, Nancy Parsons, Eric Christmas, Chuck Mitchell, Kimberly Evenson, Rose McVeigh, Fred Buch, Wendy Feign, Nancy Hassinger, Ilse Earl, Bill Hindman, Sandy Mielke.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $20.5M (US)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ** \u00bd<\/p>\n

\u00a0There\u2019s something off about Porky\u2019s Revenge<\/strong>, the third and final installment of the series, and I\u2019ve never been able to put my finger on it\u2026. until now. Maybe it\u2019s the change of directors- TV vet James Komack (in his one and only feature film) steps in for Bob Clark- but Porky\u2019s Revenge<\/strong> feels like it takes place in some alternate universe, one in which a high school basketball team makes it to the championship despite not resembling anything close to a winning team. Diminutive Pee Wee (Monahan) is on the team. So is Meat (Ganios) who looks like he gained about 30-40 lbs since the last movie. Watching him run\/lumber around the court is just surreal. Come to think of it, the whole movie is rather surreal. Porky\u2019s Revenge<\/strong> looks and acts like a Porky\u2019s movie, but it doesn\u2019t feel like one. It\u2019s not a bad movie per se, it\u2019s just bizarre.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Once again, everybody (including the makers) seems to have developed amnesia. Pee Wee and Wendy (Hunter) are no longer a couple. No explanation is offered for their break-up. Their relationship isn\u2019t acknowledged in any way. This leaves Pee Wee almost the way we met him three years earlier, as a horny teen who wakes up with an erection every morning. In Porky\u2019s Revenge<\/strong>, we get to see what he\u2019s dreaming about. It\u2019s the hot Swedish exchange student Inga (Evenson, Kandyland) who adds \u201cYah, yah!\u201d to every statement. They\u2019re at graduation and she flashes her boobs, causing him to \u201cpitch a tent\u201d under his gown. Of course, it comes off and Pee Wee is naked before the entire crowd who starts to chant his name. Freud would have a field day with this guy, especially since his mother and grandmother are also in his dream.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As implied by the title, Porky (Mitchell) is back and still pissed off at the Angel Beach High gang for destroying his bar. Speaking of which, hold your hails because the gang\u2019s NOT all here. Tim and Mickey are nowhere to be found. It\u2019s okay, we still have Pee Wee, Wendy, Meat, Billy (Herrier), Tommy (the late Knight) and Brian (Colomby). It\u2019s Brian who finds out that Porky is back in business; he now operates a casino riverboat. Their basketball coach is in heavy debt to Porky and the gang tries to gather evidence of Porky\u2019s illegal shenanigans for the D.A. They\u2019re caught and subsequently make a deal with the devil. They agree to throw the final game to cover their coach\u2019s debt.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Ms. Balbricker (Parsons) is still out to get the gang. This time, she catches them watching a stag film on school property. While Billy tries to bluff their way out of trouble with Principal Carter (Christmas), Wendy devises a mean prank involving a fake letter from Balbricker\u2019s high school sweetheart. It\u2019s not important how it happens, but she ends up in bed with archenemy Tommy. In addition, Meat is in danger of failing biology due to a weak stomach and a mean teacher, Miss Webster (McVeigh). If Meat fails the upcoming test, he\u2019ll be cut from the team and not allowed to play in the finals. While attempting to steal a copy of the test, the guys learn she\u2019s sexually involved with school guidance counselor Mr. Dobish (Buch), another mean a**hole. They\u2019re into some kinky stuff and the guys decide to take pictures to use for blackmail. As if he didn\u2019t already have enough to deal with, Porky\u2019s ugly-as-sin daughter Blossom (Feign) is in love with Meat. When she tells Daddy they \u201cwent all the way\u201d, he blows his stack and demands they be married at once. Once again, the Angel Beach gang is forced to take down Porky. All I can say is that, based on this movie, it\u2019s scary easy to operate a drawbridge.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I guess the big question is this: Is Porky\u2019s Revenge<\/strong> funny? It has a few funny moments but it\u2019s a far cry from the hilarity of the first movie. A lot of the problem stems from what I said earlier about this movie taking place in some alternate universe. It doesn\u2019t even feel like it takes place in the 50s, it\u2019s more like a time warp comprised of different decades. These \u201ckids\u201d don\u2019t look like kids. The main actors\u2019 ages range from 25 to 32. They look too old to even be in college. The pranks feel lazy and half-assed. The cheerleaders, in an early scene, trick the guys into stripping naked and film them getting out of a swimming pool. Big deal. The one played on Balbricker is just plain mean. At least the \u201ckids\u201d feel guilty after seeing how badly they hurt her feelings and try to make it right. Now I know Porky\u2019s Revenge<\/strong> isn\u2019t of this world; it contains something closely resembling human feelings.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The best thing about this movie is the soundtrack which is mainly composed of new covers of oldies like \u201cStagger Lee\u201d (The Fabulous Thunderbirds), \u201cBlue Suede Shoes\u201d (Carl Perkins) and \u201cLove Me Tender\u201d (Willie Nelson). The best song is a bouncy little tune called \u201cHigh School Nights\u201d by Dave Edmunds. It plays over the end credits during which shots of the movie we just watched are shown. This few minutes has the energy the whole movie should have had. Porky\u2019s Revenge<\/strong> just feels perfunctory, as if the makers figured it would make money just by bearing the Porky\u2019s brand name. It didn\u2019t work; Porky\u2019s Revenge<\/strong> is the lowest-grossing entry in the series. It\u2019s not a terrible movie by any means; it\u2019s still better than a lot of today\u2019s so-called comedies. It\u2019s worth watching, but don\u2019t expect much by which I mean expect nothing. And you\u2019ll get nothing and like it! Oops, wrong movie.<\/p>\n

TRIVIA TIDBIT: Porky\u2019s Revenge<\/strong> opened the same weekend as Friday the 13th<\/sup> Part V: A New Beginning and a week before Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment. For 17YO Movie Guy, it was a great couple of weeks.\"\"<\/p>\n

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