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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
List Price: $29.98
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 1679
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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Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: UN
Release Date: 22-MAY-2007
Media Type: DVD
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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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Great collection One Problem May 16, 2008
Pablo Acosta (SJO Costa Rica)
Is A Great and Complete collection of the Porky's Saga. But It have a problem.
The dvd 1 and 3 have spanish audio but the 2 don't haven't.
 Still fun after all these years May 15, 2008
John N. Simmons (Santa Fe,NM USA)
It was great to see this movie collection, I watched with my highschool friends and it took us back to when we first saw it in the theater, Brought back good memories of high school and our antics :) Thank you
 The first movie is still not the special edition! April 30, 2008
Shaun H. Morales (San Francisco, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's simply a bare bones version that another reviewer specified. So if you order this, please check accordingly. As this may be a widespread issue.
Things of note:
The package and dvd disc case specify that this is the "One Size Fits All Edition". However, if your disc inside the case has a plain label that says "Porky's". Chances are that you've got a non-special disc.
Although the price I ordered it at was fine, ($11.99) I am disappointed to find that this problem is still running. As I was very interested in what extras were available.
Perhaps if this is corrected (and noted) in the future, then I may purchase again.
For the time being though, this is getting returned for a full refund.
Porky's review April 5, 2008
Scorpion Thresher
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
To get the whole picture of Porky's you have to see all three films. It's kinda like watching Hannibal without first seeing Silence of the Lambs. Porky's lends a light-hearted slant to how sex in 1950's-1960's high school should have been. It played out the sexual fantasies without having to pay the consequences at the end. In a nutshell it was like Mad Magazines approach to Penthouse. Provided parents can check their biased morality at the door I would recommend Porky's to be seen by all teens.
 Check out the Troma originals! December 22, 2007
Ton (the Netherlands)
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
What is it with movies that they only become popular if as little original as possible? The Porky's series have, for some reason, reached an enormous popularity, while they were more than just highly influenced by far superior productions made years before them. Lloyd Kaufman's SQUEEZE PLAY (1980) and WAITRESS (1982) both appeared before the first imitation in the Porky series (1982), and although they had reasonably successfull theatrical runs, they somehow didn't come to be as well known as the rip offs. And more of Lloyd Kaufman's brilliance was made in 1983 (STUCK ON YOU and THE FIRST TURN-ON), but these much better titles also didn't reach the kind of audiences that later and even weaker Porky titles did.
If you like the Porky films I am sure you will absolutely love the films that inspired these series, and suggest you check them out as well! All are available on DVD. From Troma,of course!
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