Porky's Revenge! (1985)

This time Porky's operates as a river boat, while the boys are trying to win a basketball championship. It's an attempt to return to the spirit of the original, yet somehow, these movies seem so watered down to me. They have such a reputation for being unadulterated teenage filth, but aside from the first one, they seem almost quaint. This series sure held up a lot better in my memory.

I love sex and I love nudity but even that was not enough to do it for me.

1 morning boner out of 5

Porky's II: The Next Day (1983)

Everyone's aged a couple years by the following day in Bob Clark's follow-up to the cult classic. It follows the familiar formula of sex jokes and pranks, but unfortunately, there are no memorable sequences here that have stood the test of time. It's the typical teenage hijinks, which are mostly harmless fun but ultimately not all that amusing. This time the plot involves the school putting on a Shakespeare play, while the prudish parents decree it as too obscene. It's surprisingly highbrow for Porky's, but doubles as meta-commentary. Feels like they made an effort to make this one less controversial, and it suffers for it.

2 toilet snakes out of 5

Porky's (1981)

Bob Clark, never one to pigeonhole himself in one genre, presents us with the quintessential teen sex comedy of the '80s. Set in 1954, it revolves around a group of teens who try to get laid and wander over to the whorehouse where they are humiliated and vow revenge against the portly titular owner. Little more than sex jokes, boobies and practical jokes, these movies always get a bad rap for being exploitative towards women, but as usual, it's the guys who come off worst of all. It confronts racist and sexist attitudes of the day, but it's never intended to be mean-spirited or bigoted. It's all in good-natured fun which almost feels rather tame in retrospect. Audiences reappraising this film nowadays will no doubt look for any excuse to be offended, but there is an innocent charm about it that really captures the rebellious teenage spirit. A defining cultural phenomenon for its time, it was the predecessor to gross-out sex comedies like American Pie, and still one of the best examples of its kind.

3 peep shows out of 5