Product Details

• Actors: Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson, Cyril O'Reilly
• Directors: Bob Clark, James Komack
• Writers: Bob Clark, Alan Ormsby, Roger Swaybill, Ziggy Steinberg
• Producers: Alan Landsburg, Arnold Kopelson
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: May 22, 2007
• Run Time: 289 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000O76ZNU
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,269 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Porky's the Ultimate Collection" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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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

Product Description

If it hasn't been in the works already I'm sure a remake of this classic will be announced at some point soon. I didn't think flicks like REVENGE OF THE NERDS or WEIRD SCIENCE were "remakeable" but apparently so. The PORKY'S "ONE SIZE ALL" EDITION will be available bundled with a Porky s Ultimate Collection that includes worthy successors in the series Porky s II: The Next Day and Porky s Revenge.Running Time: 284 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 024543425304 Manufacturer No: 2242530

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Without Porky's, American Pie wouldn't exist., May 31, 2007

By	Robert B. Durant - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was always hoping that 20th Century Fox would release the entire Porky's Trilogy on DVD some day. Well after re-release after re-release of the first film on DVD and the second film only available in a 2-pack with the first film, FOX finally did it. However I was disappointed with the special features. I am glad that a commentary by director (the late) Bob Clark was included, but I was also hoping that we would hear from some of the boys from Angel Beach. Getting their thoughts on being involved in one of the funniest film franchises in history would have been very exciting and funny at the same time. I also had hoped for a documentary with the actors, it would have been nice to see what they do and look like now while they talk about the films. But unfortunately all we got was a 15 minute mini-documentary from Bob Clark on his thoughts (and those were only on the first film in the trilogy). A second small documentary was included with the first disc with a couple of comedians giving their thoughts on the first movie (why we hear from them and not the actors beats the hell out of me).

Still for anyone who has ever grown up with these films or is just getting into them, coming across the entire trilogy on DVD for a good price is a great opportunity. If you are in your local Wal-Mart and you find it for $[...] I wouldn't pass it up (that is if you haven't bought it used on Amazon.com).

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fox video at last has done it again!!!, May 29, 2007

By	John T. Ehrhart "JohnOfKaty" (Katy, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Well as I said with the Revenge Of The Nerds Collection, so do I say with Porky's. I am glad that Fox Home Video FINALLY got ALL three Porky's movies out on DVD. I loved watching all three and think that all of them are classics! The first one is without a shadow of a doubt funny. The second one was somewhat cool....but the third one was a little bit different than the other two. But, it was the only one that didn't get DVD recognition which to me is why it needed it and I am glad FOX did that. Enjoy!!!

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE! Many versions have non-special edition disc!, December 20, 2007

By	Pat S. Fitzgerald "cult film expert" (East Meadow, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I don't get it. All I see are rave reviews about the special features on the "One Size Fits All" Special Edition of Porky's. Well, all these reviewers have been EXTREMELY lucky. Twice, I've exchanged the box set because the disc that is in the "One Size Fits All" edition is actually the previously released version of Porky's with only the theatrical trailer and NO other special features. Anywhere. The third version I got was from 20th Century Fox themselves, and it was STILL the wrong disc! I assume the special features are not some kind of bizarre easter egg thing I have to hunt for (which I did anyway, to no avail). So, before you shell out for the box set, I advise you make sure you are getting what you pay for. When the box quite clearly states all the wonderful special features, and the disc has only the trailer, something is wrong at 20th Century fox.