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Avg. Critic Score: 40 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
17 not for kids
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    TV Guide |

    It's lewd, it's crude and it's funny - don't try to say you didn't laugh. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Janet Maslin

    A portion of the audience will be strongly offended by Porky's, just as another portion will find it filthy but fun. However, there is no debating the success of Mr. Clark's casting, for he has assembled a cheerful, likable bunch of actors, most of them unknowns. Read full review

  • 50
    Time |

    It has some of ["American] Graffiti's" sweetness of spirit, but none of its style or depth of feeling; it has some of "Animal [House"]'s raunchiness, but none of its loony anarchy. Read full review

  • 50
    The Globe and Mail (Toronto) |

    Porky's is crafty, offensive retro-fantasy for one gender. [20 Mar 1982] Read full review

  • 50
    Variety |

    If, by chance, Porky's should prove to be Melvin Simon's swan song in the film industry, it will either be perceived as a thunderously rude exit or a titanic raspberry uttered to audiences everywhere. Read full review

  • 38
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Porky's is another raunchy teenage sex-and-food-fight movie. Read full review

  • 20
    Chicago Reader | Dave Kehr

    It's as if Russ Meyer had made "Death Wish III" with an adenoidal cast, though it isn't that good. Read full review

  • 0
    Boston Globe |

    Unfortunately, except for one raucous routine, this "Animal House" clone is an overblown, over-publicized, overwrought exploitation flick that's about as funny as the first dirty joke my father told me. [09 Apr 1982] Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says not for kids Boobs-'n'-booze comedy is a hard "R" for a reason.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this is not a mild, PG-13 teen flick. It's a raunchy, bawdy high school comedy about friends who just want to have sex. Like a more graphic American Pie, the film features a great deal of nudity (full frontal in a lengthy shower scene) and explicit sex talk, as the guys look to lose their virginities or just get more notches on their belt. Since it's set in the 1950s, a few hate words referring to African Americans, Jews, and Latinos are said quite openly.
  • Families can talk about teen sexuality and the legacy of raunchy high school films. The movie was made in the '80s but set in the '50s. What has changed in the way high school students talk about and approach sex? What movies accurately depict teen life today?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: The guys plot revenge against Porky's for denying them with sexual satisfaction via his stripper/prostitutes.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: A few hand-to-hand fights and a couple of bar brawls.
  • sex false5 Sex: There's so much, it's hard to know where to start: full-frontal female nudity (the infamous shower scene); men's backsides are visible; one loud sex scene that features partial nudity; half-naked strippers; a prostitute touches and looks over a row of naked guys; many, many conversations referring to virginity and erections, one of which is visible through a man's boxers, and much much more.
  • language false5 Language: Loads and loads of cursing: the "F" word, many variations of the word "d--k," several hate words for African Americans, Jews, and Hispanics, various euphemisms for sex and virginity and the standard obscenities "s--t," "ass," "asshole," "lardass," etc.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Several characters, including the teens, smoke and drink.
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