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Film · 20th Century · 1981

Porky's

Name: Porky's scores 13 — Live Historic
Item: Porky's
Rating: 13
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13Leave it.

A huge gross built on humiliation, and it does not belong near children.

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The review

Do not put this on where a child can hear it. The plot is high-school boys in Florida trying to get into a strip club and humiliate people. I am not going to walk through the gags. A very large gross does not make them fit for a house. There is a subplot about a bully and prejudice, which is the part the film would like you to call serious.

That subplot is not what drives the picture. The main joke is the humiliation. Grown people can still pass on it. A comedy that keeps aiming you at the next one is a bad night, and the side story does not wash the rest.

Journal

Keep Porky's in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 13. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

24 instead of 13

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is still a comedy film, and it scores 24 instead of 13. What you gain is truth: It tells on adult hypocrisy, then joins it.

The eight

1
Industry
High school is the setting, and nobody has a job that matters.
1
Household
This is not a picture for a house that has children in it.
1
Piety
Humiliating people is the joke, and nobody is made to stop.
2
Courage
A bully subplot pretends at nerve the main plot never has.
1
Republic
Neighbors are targets, not people owed any decency.
1
Temperance
The main joke trains you toward the next humiliation.
2
Truth
The film calls a side plot serious while the joke stays in charge.
1
Stewardship
A huge gross, and nothing left that a family ought to repeat.

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Film · Universal · 1978

Animal House

13Leave it.

It takes the wreckers' side, and you can feel later comedies learning that trick.

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The review

The dean wants the fraternity shut, and the film never seriously asks whether he has a reason. It takes the wreckers' side. A parade is destroyed. The school is a prop. Damage plays as charm, and a long line of comedies learned that trick from this one.

People had a huge time with it. That is not the same as a good thing to leave on. The nerve on screen is mostly the nerve to break a ceremony you will not rebuild. I would not hand this to a teenager as a picture of school. The laugh is borrowed from a town the movie does not intend to pay back.

Journal

Keep Animal House in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 13. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Sixteen Candles

26 instead of 13

Sixteen Candles is still a comedy film, and it scores 26 instead of 13. What you gain is household: A family forgets a daughter's sixteenth.

The eight

1
Industry
The school is a prop, and nobody's work is asked to matter.
1
Household
A fraternity is the set, not a family anyone has to keep.
1
Piety
The film sides with the wreckers and does not let conscience in.
2
Courage
The risk is expulsion, spent on smashing a parade.
1
Republic
They destroy a parade and owe the town nothing back.
1
Temperance
Damage is played as charm, and the next wreck is the reward.
2
Truth
The dean's reasons never get a fair hearing on screen.
1
Stewardship
A ceremony is ruined, and later comedies copied the wreck.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

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