{"id":1411,"date":"2006-09-12T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T17:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2024-06-16T12:09:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T19:09:47","slug":"porkys-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1411","title":{"rendered":"Porky&#8217;s (1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;You just got to show them who&#8217;s boss.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Porkys-Poster-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Porkys-Poster-1-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-54865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Porkys-Poster-1-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Porkys-Poster-1-83x128.jpg 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Porkys-Poster-1-176x270.jpg 176w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Porkys-Poster-1.jpg 491w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen a group of horny teenage boys are thrown out of a sleazy strip joint named Porky&#8217;s and a corrupt sheriff (Alex Karras) damages their car, they vow to get their revenge.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Revenge<\/li>\n<li>Susan Clark Films<\/li>\n<li>Teenagers<\/li>\n<li>Virginity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, this &#8220;smutty juvenile comedy&#8221; centering &#8220;on a group of jerky high-school boys who have sex on the brain&#8221; is amazingly &#8220;unfunny&#8221;, with &#8220;all the humor&#8230; vulgar and sex-related.&#8221; The characters are &#8220;repulsive&#8221;, the acting is &#8220;awful&#8221;, and director &#8220;Bob Clark&#8217;s idea of a good joke is having one character embarrass himself\/herself sexually and having lots of other characters stand around laughing.&#8221; However, given what a &#8220;<em>phenomenal<\/em> commercial success&#8221; this flick was (and the cult following it continues to maintain), film fanatics should probably sit through it once. Good luck. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A surprisingly serious subplot in which a boy (Cyril O&#8217;Reilly) deals with both his abusive father and his anti-semitism<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Porkys-OReilly-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Porkys-OReilly-1-1024x566.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"354\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-54866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Porkys-OReilly-1-1024x566.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Porkys-OReilly-1-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Porkys-OReilly-1-128x71.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Porkys-OReilly-1-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Porkys-OReilly-1-1536x849.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Porkys-OReilly-1-488x270.png 488w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Porkys-OReilly-1-1038x576.png 1038w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Porkys-OReilly-1.png 1713w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, but simply for its cult status and infamy as one of the first of the &#8220;Teen Sex Gross Out&#8221; films. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cult Movie<\/li>\n<li>Historically Relevant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0084522\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1982\/03\/20\/movies\/porky-s-opens.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/porkys-1981\">Roger Ebert&#8217;s Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/\">Digitally Obsessed Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You just got to show them who&#8217;s boss.&#8221; Synopsis: When a group of horny teenage boys are thrown out of a sleazy strip joint named Porky&#8217;s and a corrupt sheriff (Alex Karras) damages their car, they vow to get their revenge. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Comedy Revenge Susan Clark Films Teenagers Virginity Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: As Peary notes, this &#8220;smutty juvenile comedy&#8221; centering &#8220;on a group of jerky high-school boys who have sex on the brain&#8221; is amazingly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1411\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97941,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/97941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}