“Porky’s” is one of the most famous teen sex comedies of the 80s. Sadly, it’s not all that funny. Other raunchy comedies such as “Animal House”, “Caddyshack”, “Private School” and even “Lemon Popsicle” are funnier. There’s nothing terrible about “Porky’s”, there just isn’t much to it.

Set in 1954, we meet Pee Wee (Dan Monahan) and his buddies from Florida’s Angel Beach High School. Their only real goals in life seem to be to pull pranks and get the sexy girls. After being publicly humiliated during a visit to the strip club Porky’s, a feud begins that culminates in the teens getting revenge on their establishment’s owners.

The characters in “Porky’s” are pretty forgettable. That’s not to say that the teens in many other films are particularly memorable. Some modern audiences may find some of the lewd pranks a little too far as probably the most notorious sequence in the film features teen boys spying on girls in the shower before deciding to stick part of his anatomy through the hole. Porky himself isn’t all that interesting as a villain. Probably the most interesting characters in the whole film are some of the goofy staff members at the high school. We have Honeywell (Kim Cattrall “Police Academy”), who has some rather unusual sexual practices. There is also the rather fierce Balbricker (Nancy Parsons “Sudden Impact”).

I’ll admit that everybody in “Porky’s” looks like they are having a great time. Even though some of the pranks and situations would be rather unethical and/or dangerous in reality, it’s done with a sense of playful innocence here. A major problem is that there just isn’t really any plot. There are plot elements but nothing that really ties any of it together in any sort of coherent way. A lot of the gags are also pretty lacklustre. There is often no real punchline, it’s just immature activity. If you are a big fan of some of the other films I’ve mentioned, maybe you’ll enjoy this but don’t expect too much.