Porky's the Ultimate Collection | 
 enlarge | Directors: Bob Clark (iii), James Komack
Actors: Dan Monahan, Wyatt Knight, Mark Herrier, Roger Wilson, Cyril O'reilly
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 2229
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 289 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 1
MPN: 024543425304
UPC: 024543425304
EAN: 0024543425304
ASIN: B000O76ZNU
Theatrical Release Date: June 24, 1983
Release Date: May 22, 2007
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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 Description
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Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: UN
Release Date: 22-MAY-2007
Media Type: DVD
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 The original is awesome; the sequels are, well, sequels. September 3, 2008
H. Taffs
The original movie Porky's is a classic and still screamingly funny after all these years. The sequels are totally forgettable. You may want to consider just getting the single DVD of the original instead of the collection.
 Porky's: The Ultimate Collection August 30, 2008
David R. Smouse (Chandler,Arizona)
Finally. The Porky's movies all together in one set.
Boy, do these ever bring back good memories.
funny stuff August 27, 2008
GennyR (USA)
This isnt for kids but it sure is funny ,I got this dvd set free with my pepsi points,and I was very pleased but then saw it was taken off the list ,what a shame was gonna get another for my parents.
OUTSTANDING July 19, 2008
wolf
I was glad to find this series, and at a descent price as well.....Thanks for a great deal.
Porky's The Ultimae Collection July 13, 2008
Thomas V. Gilbert Jr. (Greenfield, IN. USA)
If You like coming of age movies & the comedy that goes along with how the movies are made, You will never find a better collection than this one. You will be laughing so hard You will want to go back and watch it over again & again. Have Fun and Enjoy.
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