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Porky's

Porky's

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  • Canada,
  • United States
  • 1981
  • · 94m

Director Bob Clark
Cast Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Cyril O'Reilly, Kaki Hunter, Kim Cattrall
Genre Comedy

Set in 1954, a group of Florida high schoolers seek out to lose their virginity which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.

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75

TV Guide Magazine

It's lewd, it's crude and it's funny - don't try to say you didn't laugh.

70

The New York Times by Janet Maslin

A portion of the audience will be strongly offended by Porky's, just as another portion will find it filthy but fun. However, there is no debating the success of Mr. Clark's casting, for he has assembled a cheerful, likable bunch of actors, most of them unknowns.

50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Porky's is crafty, offensive retro-fantasy for one gender. [20 Mar 1982]

50

Variety

If, by chance, Porky's should prove to be Melvin Simon's swan song in the film industry, it will either be perceived as a thunderously rude exit or a titanic raspberry uttered to audiences everywhere.

50

Time

It has some of ["American] Graffiti's" sweetness of spirit, but none of its style or depth of feeling; it has some of "Animal [House"]'s raunchiness, but none of its loony anarchy.

38

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Porky's is another raunchy teenage sex-and-food-fight movie.

20

Chicago Reader by Dave Kehr

It's as if Russ Meyer had made "Death Wish III" with an adenoidal cast, though it isn't that good.

Boston Globe

Unfortunately, except for one raucous routine, this "Animal House" clone is an overblown, over-publicized, overwrought exploitation flick that's about as funny as the first dirty joke my father told me. [09 Apr 1982]