1/10
High School Nights
3 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
"Porky's Revenge" sees the return of Pee Wee (Dan Monahan) and his gang of friends, Wendy (Kaki Hunter), Meat (Tony Ganois,) Brian, (Scott Colomby,) Billy (Mark Herrier,) and Tommy (Wyatt Knight), looking way too old to be in high school and are back for their dumbest round of pranks and hijinks that also sees the return of their arch enemy Porky (Chuck Mitchell.) This sequel is slightly better than the last movie, but that's not saying much. This awful sequel is bottom of the barrel with cruel jokes toward women and lame sex jokes that flood the screen.

"Porky's II: The Next Day" was so bad, it was unwatchable. The Clan and the perverted city council. The disturbing Reverand looked like someone hit him in the face and is also a weirdo. There was a bad atmosphere to the movie, and "Porky's Revenge" returns to the original tone with nonstop sex jokes repeated over again, and the boys find themselves in the sights of Porky's when their Basketball Coach Goodenough (Bill Hindman) owes a debt to him.

Porky now owns a riverboat, and the boys plan to climb aboard and take pictures of the illegal casino so they can send them to the DA's office. Porky catches them in the act, and after realizing who they are, he plans to shoot. "I've been wanting to find you kids for one helluva long time." He agrees to waive the coach's debt if they throw the upcoming Championship Basketball Game.

One of the dumber subplots involves the Meat character finding Porky's sex-crazed daughter, Blossom (Wendy Feign,) on the highway, and, the other is Meat failing his Biology class and the Teacher, who is also a sex-crazed weirdo, Miss Webster (Rose McVeigh,) and seems to have some sort of weird vendetta again him. Constantly wanting him to fail. Her sidekick is a weirdo, Dobish (Fred Buch,) who is the school guidance counsellor and Webster's secret lover. The scenes between them are awkward and strange, and they make this film borderline unwatchable.

Miss Balbricker (Nancy Parsons) is the usual butt of jokes, and this time, she tries to get the boys expelled when they are caught with a stag film. The School Principal, Mr. Carter (Eric Church, is easily fooled because he is stupid for the sake of dumb comedy, and it's a useless subplot that has him watching a stag film over and trying to debunk whether it's a safety video or not. There is no intelligence, and the film falls on the tired old gags.

One of them is a foreign lady, Inga (Kimberly Evenson,) with whom Pee Wee is infatuated, agrees to meet him in a motel, although it is a setup. One of the characters gets there first and starts rolling around with Ballbreaker, who thinks it's her old lover she has missed for several years. When she discovers she is frolicking around with Tommy, Ballbricker squeals, and they all laugh on the lawn across the street, as she cashes him up the street. "I got you now Tommy Turner. You poor excuse for humanity." These jokes are cruel and show the intelligence and lack of a decent screenplay. Wendy Plays the cruel prank, and they try to fix this, but it's around the last fifteen mins of the movie.

Porky gets his revenge when the boys screw him over, and he kidnaps Meat and forces him into a shotgun wedding with his crazed daughter aboard the HMS Pignuts. There is no sense of danger here because it's a comedy, and any that the original had is gone. Surprisingly, this is a tame sequel compared to the original. The usual amount of raunchy jokes is here, and the usual vulgar dialogue about women in a dreary way. "I could lick her waist." Pee Wee and the gang see Blossom's face and quickly drive off. These movies hate women, and that element is still very much here.

At least the original had that teenage charm to it, but It was a film that, surprisingly, had a mean spirit to it. It also had some humorous moments. It had some horrid moments and the moments where the boys spying on the girls are gone in favour of a stupid story that is all over the place. It's like the director, James Komack, never watched the original movie, and it shows.

One of the strangest scenes in the movie is in the ending, where Tommy and Wendy fake suicides to get the attention of a bridge docker, and it feels wrong. They both kiss and jump off the bridge. Pee Wee hides, so he can lift the bridge so Porky's boat will drive right into it. Porky chases Billy, Meat and Brian in a rowboat as he tries to run them down until his riverboat crashes into the bridge, and it's cut to the graduation indicating hopefully, they don't make any more of these movies.

"Porky's Revenge" is a dreary movie with bad dialogue and a screenplay that nobody cares about. Original director Bob Clark refused to make this movie, and James Komack took over. This movie will, undoubtedly, be remembered along with the other two, but that's not saying much at all.

1/10.
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