When the students of Angel Beach High decide to stage "An Evening With Shakespeare," their efforts are threatened by Miss Balbricker, who views the works of Shakespeare as obscene. She enlists the help of Reverend Bubba Flavel, a religious fanatic who brings along his flock of followers to pressure the school into shutting down the production.
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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.
porky's was a smash hit so obviously there was going to be a sequel, and unsurprisingly it wasn't as funny as the first, did you expect it to be, but never the less its great to be with the gang again, and there are still some laugh out loud moments here, thanks mostly to the ever great 'pee wee'. the most surprising thing about this movie for me was that the whole cast from the first one came back for this, and there is its ,main problem, there are simply to many characters simply standing around doing nothing, sure its great there there, but at least give them some good jokes to do. so never the less while its no classic like the original was, its a decent sequel, and fans of the first should check it out as there bound to have a giggle
I actually came here to this page after I cracked a joke on the internet about this being the worst sequel of all time! And I was 16 when it came out, didn't even know what a "leftist agenda" was, and I still hated the film. Seriously? A bunch of white teenagers from Florida in 1954 with left-wing political leanings? The original is awesome, awesome. Who doesn't like shower scenes, and spending the rest of your time trying to get laid, and playing practical jokes on your friends? I suppose the cemetery scene was OK, but the rest of the film is a total bore. Fortunately for Mr. Clark (and I didn't know about his untimely passing a few years ago until I read these reviews), he came back pretty strong writing Porky's Revenge.
As often happens, this sequel to PORKY'S (1982) is inferior to the original - but, then, neither is it as bad as Leonard Maltin claims in his esteemed Film Guide! It does cheat by forsaking the titular establishment entirely, though the formula is pretty much the same as before - except that here some of the characters from the original disappear and are replaced by new ones, while the girl who was involved with the protagonist in the first film gets a bigger part this time around. Again, the film pits a certain minority - in this case, American Indians - against a bigoted community.While the film's major asset has to be the over-the-top characterization of the hypocritical Reverend, there are almost as many belly laughs here as in the original. Scenes that particularly stand out are the 'Shakespeare v. Bible' quoting duel (even if it's kind of silly and out-of-character to have the boys involved in putting on a show of the Bard's work in the first place) and the individual come-uppance of the gang's various antagonists - the KKK (in the school gymnasium), the duplicitous board member (humiliated in a restaurant prior to re-election) and the aforementioned evangelist and his flock (at their own rally).P.S. Interestingly, co-writer Alan Ormsby had previously collaborated with Clark on his first two horror outings - CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS (1972; which I've never watched) and DEATHDREAM (1972)!