SnoopyStyle
It's the next day. Pee Wee is now overly confident having had sex with Wendy vowing to get a girl for the boys to gangbang. He gets librarian-by-day Graveyard Gloria for them. The gang is joining the school drama club's production of An Evening With Shakespeare. Miss Balbricker sees Shakespeare as obscene and tries to stop it with Reverend Bubba Flavel's help. Commissioner Gebhardt reneges on his promise to the kids. The local Ku Klux Klan joins the opposition due to a Seminole Indian student playing Romeo opposite Wendy playing Juliet.There are a couple of missing characters from the original. It's a problem because this is THE NEXT DAY. Elevating Wendy is a good move. The Reverend and the KKK are way too broad to be compelling and too serious to be funny, the KKK more than the Reverend actually. The Indian character is ill-fitting to a broad sex-romp comedy. The graveyard scene is pretty funny especially with the guys holding back the laughter. I just find the broad opposition to the play unfunny. Other than the graveyard, I didn't find this movie as funny as the original.
nostradumbass03
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.
Sandcooler
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.
MARIO GAUCI
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)!
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