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Undescribable Perfection

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

It's hard to believe, that this movie takes place the next day, after you know.... but again too, it's hard to believe the actors are still in their teens, but back then in the eighties, that's how it went. Porky's 2 has as some moments (assets) that are pure gold, I won't ruin, but they're rib ticking funny, some moments, no matter how many times you watch it. What's strikingly different about this one is it's turn of original story, that has a not half bad plot, involving the Ku Klux Clan. Yes, Peewee has become a man, but let's move on, yes, past the traditional penis chart check opening. The students of Angel Beach High, are putting on a theatre show, which include some of our favorite students, but when the show's sabotaged, on account of he male lead being an an Indian, it attracts a not so hospitable folk, including Ms Balbreaker (Parsons), who bare some pretty bad and bitter prejudice. There's some real lessons to be learn't here, and who would think this movie, would be the one, but still this doesn't compare with the originality and freshness of the first, despite this one having some genuine qualities, and some absolute screams of laughter scenes, in a somewhat calmer Porky's film. It just, if enigmatically boils down to an average pic, and I didn't say comedy. Again as for the future of our Porky's performers, it's a pity, nearly all of their careers, sunk, in the years after. It sort of runs parallel to one of Wendy's lines, "After you Peewee, where's a girl to go?". "After these Porky's films, where's an actor to go?" The last drawn out (trademark) scene is a killer hoot, with Hunter's fake goodies, that shoot out vomit.

Well, it's a sympathetic sequel in a way, addressing rotten politics and racism for instance. But, uhm... where's Porky? And more importantly, where's the fun? Some of it feels like a mediocre rehash of the first Porky (graveyard). Some of it is just NOT funny (restaurant, snake). BUT... some of it is pretty good (mohel, rally, broken off sword).Again, the acting looks like they had a good time, but I didn't enjoy it that much. The fore-mentioned themes are admirable qualities in a film like this, don't get me wrong, but the ratio is off; there's too little fun and too much seriousness.Very mediocre stuff, all in all; 4 out of 10.

This first highly unnecessary sequel to "Porky's" again focuses on some bad guys getting their comeuppance, only this time I just really didn't care. The plot about some religious fanatics trying to shut down the production of a Shakespeare play didn't really work for me, mainly because the villains are so over the top they throw you right out of this movie. Especially the character of Reverend Flavel really makes it super-obvious what's going to happen. This movie pretty much wrote itself, but did a very bad job of it. It may still be fun to see the guys from Angel Beach interact, but they have absolutely nothing interesting to do and things get boring. Their main story has been over for a while, so they have to get by on lame, far-fetched story lines that really scrape the bottom of the barrel (the KKK subplot anyone?). And occasionally they also get involved in a lame practical joke that takes forever to set up. It's still "Porky's", so I can't hate it, but the first is just so much better.

Director/co-screenwriter Bob Clark follows up his surprise hit original with this solid and often sidesplitting sequel. This time those rowdy lads at Angel Beach High are pitted against a bunch of uptight killjoy religious fanatics led by the smarmy Reverand Flaval (a perfectly slimy Bill Wiley) who object to a Shakespeare festival on the grounds that the Bard's work is obscene. Moreover, the local Klu Klux Klan aren't happy that Native American John Henry (likable James Runningfox) is playing the lead in the production of "Romeo and Juliet." Clark not only incorporates the expected wild'n'raunchy anything-goes humor that was a key pleasing ingredient of the first film, but also takes wickedly nasty satiric potshots at such deserving targets as racial prejudice, religious hypocrisy and political corruption. Once again the cast really sink their teeth into their parts with unbridled gusto. Special kudos are in order for Dan Monahan as the impish Pee Wee, Kaki Hunter as the cheerfully bawdy Wendy, Nancy Parsons as stern gym teacher Ms. Balbricker, and Eric Christmas as the timid Principal Carter. Comic highlights include a nice tongue-in-cheek homage to Clark's earlier fright feature "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things," Ms. Balbricker singing on the toilet, and Wendy acting like a loud obnoxious ill-mannered immature brat at a posh French restaurant. Cisse Cameron has a memorably sexy bit as a luscious stripper who disrobes in a cemetery. Reginald H. Morris' slick cinematography, Carl Zittrer's lively, rousing score, and the catchy golden oldies soundtrack are all likewise up to par. There's even a surprising amount of sweet sensitivity to be found amid all the wacky tomfoolery. Granted, this film doesn't totally match the gut-busting hilarity of the incredible original, but it's still plenty of good, naughty fun all the same.