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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 5320
Released: May 22, 2007 |
| Our Price: $22.48 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 05/22/07
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve
Description of Porky's the Ultimate Collection:
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
Porky's the Ultimate Collection Reviews:
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2009-12-21 - I was happy that I received my product within an adequate and timely manner. The discs look great. I have not had the opportunity to view this, but I absolutely loved Porky's as a child, even now. This is a gift for an older friend of mine that has never seen the movies. It was a must gift.
For my brother... HIS favorite!
2009-12-08 - Got this for my brother for his birthday. He had them on VHS and wanted to upgrade to DVD. These are his FAVORITE movies! He was VERY happy!
OH YES!! 
2009-11-26 - wHAT CAN i SAY???Its Porky's at the best with 2 of them being very naughty shows with laughter almost all the way thru!!LOL..Enjoyed the 1st just like when it come out and still liked the others like when they come out,but ya cant beat the 1st all!!
Porky's the Ultimate Collection
2009-11-17 - The description about the delivery is earlier than I expected. It presented really well. And most of all, the DVD is in excellent condition, the disks only works to a certain type of dvd player though.
Everything we expected!
2009-06-26 - This is exactly the collection we were looking for. We had a Porky's marathon the other night and everyone cracked up all over again!
I especially want to commend Amazon for their amazing service. I never worry when dealing with you - I know my order will be accurate and that I will get it within the week! Thanks for everything.
P. VanBeek
