PORKY'S REVENGE

US, 1985, 92 minutes, Colour.
Dan Monahan, Wyatt Knight.
Directed by James Komack.

Porky's Revenge was the third in the series. Bob Clark, a director of such films as Murder By Decree, Tribute, The Christmas Story, Rhinestone, created raucous characters from the '50s and made a runaway success. It was vulgar - but somehow or other communicated an atmosphere of the pranks and growing up of adolescents. The sequel was much the same - but decidedly more vulgar.

Bob Clark's characters were taken up for this third film but without the benefit of Clark's writing or direction. The third film is really a rerun of the first, re-introducing the gross character Porky and his gambling casino which the adolescents destroy as they did in the opening film. The young cast are the same, there are shenanigans at school, there is a huge emphasis on sex. This time, however, the film is more kindly to the gym mistress who was ridiculed in the earlier films. The film is negligible - though it does reflect the kind of film so popular at the box office in the early '80s. The enthusiasm of the young cast for their roles gives the film more vitality than the screenplay warrants.