Main Cast: Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Roger Wilson, Cyril O'Reilly
Release Year: 1983
Country: CA/US
Run Time: 95 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
The real world once more takes a back seat to a caricature of itself as the same Florida high-school teens who grossed profits in Porky's by grossing out, have to band together to stop their Shakespeare festival (!!) from being cancelled, due to a crusading, right-wing reverend's attack on the bard's "lewd" content. The reverend is joined by Miss Balbricker(Nancy Parsons) the girls' gym teacher and also the Ku Klux Klan who object to Romeo being played by an Indian. These unlikely allies come up against the libido-laden teens who strip the Ku Klux Klanners and send them running through town naked. Similar styles of revenge are taken to handle Miss Balbrick and the right-wing reverend -- apparently all's well that ends well at the box office. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Review
Because it inspired countless shallow rip-offs, the original Porky's is remembered as a dumb teenaged sex comedy. Actually, though, it was a sweet, almost sentimental coming-of-age story, albeit one populated by copious nude, nubile teens. Perhaps the smear on the Porky's name was the result of this misconceived sequel, which magnifies almost all of the original film's salaciousness while maintaining none of its quiet craft or emotional resonance. With the exception of Kim Cattrall's phermone-sniffing ladies' P.E. teacher, most of the original cast return. But their characters, once so well-defined, are barely distinguishable thanks to returning writer/director Bob Clark's haphazard screenplay and indifferent direction. The big comedy and action set-pieces of the original are replaced here by unfunny, over-the-top practical-joke scenarios and grotesque caricatures of small-town politicians and clergymen. The quiet social conscience, meanwhile, is reduced to an underwritten role for Joseph Running Fox, as a put-upon Native American student. A subplot involving a school production of several Shakespearean scenes provides little except the opportunity to titter at teen boys in tights -- not exactly highbrow stuff. Only one unexpectedly sweet early scene, between Dan Monahan's hapless Pee Wee and Kaki Hunter's tough-girl Wendy, provide even a moment of recognizable human emotion. Alas, it isn't enough to save Porky's 2 from one too many jokes involving apocalyptic bathroom breaks, naked Ku Klux Klan members and Pee Wee's quest to host a gang-bang. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
Tony Ganios - Meat; Kaki Hunter - Wendy; Scott Colomby - Brian; Nancy Parsons - Balbricker; Joseph Running Fox - John Henry; Eric Christmas - Carter; Bill Wiley - Reverand Bubba Flavel; Edward Winter - Gebhardt; Rod Ball - Steve; Fred Buch - Commissioner Hurley; Cissie Cameron - Sandy Le Toi; Ilse Earl - Mrs. Morris; Dan Fitzgerald; Adrienne Hampton - Betty; Art Hindle - Ted; Baby Jane Holzer; Mal Jones - Major Abernathy; Rooney Kerwin; Will Knickerbocker - Klan #1; Wayne Knight - Tommy; Jack Mulcahy - Frank; Anthony Penya - Bill Jumper; Roger E. Swaybill; Peter Conrad; Richard Liberty - Commissioner Couch; Ted Richert - Maitre D'; William Fuller - Eustis (Klan Leader); Francine Joyce - Screaming Girl; Bill Wohrman - Ted's Partner; Melanie Grefe; Brian Smith; Tom Tully - Waiter
Credit
Fred R. Price - Art Director, Gary Goch - Associate Producer, Ken Heeley-Ray - Associate Producer, Marci Liroff - Casting, Mary E. McLeod - Costume Designer, Bob Clark - Director, Stan Cole - Editor, Melvin Simon - Executive Producer, Carl Zittrer - Composer (Music Score), Alan Bernard - Musical Direction/Supervision, Reginald Morris - Cinematographer, Bob Clark - Producer, Don Carmody - Producer, Alan Landsburg - Producer, Melvin Simon - Producer, Harold Greenberg - Producer, Richard Helfritz - Set Designer, Alan Bernard - Sound/Sound Designer, Bob Clark - Screenwriter, Alan Ormsby - Screenwriter, Roger E. Swaybill - Screenwriter
The gang from Angel Beach High School are at it again. After they dealt with Porky, they are ready for a new challenge: The High School Drama Club is getting ready to stage a Shakespeare festival. Unfortunately, a religious leader named Reverend Bubba Flavel wants to halt the production because he and his group "The Righteous Flock" think that Shakespeare is indecent. The gang also has to deal with a double crossing politician, and the Ku Klux Klan, who object to a redskin (Runningfox's Seminole character) playing Romeo. The sex crazed teens really know how to get even, and play pranks on each other and their foes.
The yellow 1947 Crosley convertible featured in this film was borrowed from a family member of the original Crosley Motors.
Bob Clark directed this film at the same time he was helming A Christmas Story (1983). Even the "major award" (the racy mannequin's leg in fishnet stockings-lamp) makes an appearance when the kids are performing the swordfight scene of "Romeo and Juliet" onstage.
Although named in the title, Chuck Mitchell's 'Porky' character does not actually appear in the film. Mitchell himself declined, as he would have to appear stark-naked in the film's final scene.
The flick's grossings were considerably lower than the first Porky's film. While Porky's grossed $111m in the domestic market, Porky's II: The Next Day only salvaged $33,759,266 [3].
